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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1905
Page
6
The article notes velvet remains popular though the fad is overdone. It contrasts high quality velvet with cheap versions, praising affordable velvets for many uses while warning chiffon velvets drop in desirability. For budget buyers, velveteen or corduroy offer a practical velvet-like option.
An old newspaper piece stresses mouth cleanliness as the first defense against decay. It urges thorough brushing, antiseptics, and gum stimulation through friction, and notes risks from neglect and uneven chewing leading to abscesses and tooth loss.
The article describes a mahogany breakfast tray with a two-inch grill edge and legs that rest on the bed, designed to prevent spills while eating in bed. It notes the invention’s usefulness for a comfortable breakfast, then shifts to home remedies and beauty tips for travel, including a home toilet vinegar and a lemon bath fad for refreshed skin.
A vintage guide advocates a spa routine to combat aging around the neck. It prescribes a homemade skin-food cream, detailed rubbing motions, and daily habits of diet sleep and exercise to firm the throat and reduce a double chin. It emphasizes careful massage over harsh rubbing and links beauty to modern science.
A reader describes building a small medicine chest from a shallow box measuring about 18 by 22 inches. They sanded smooth, added three shelves, a door with brass hinges, trim molding, and a hook and eye. After painting in cherry enamel, a Red Cross nurse picture from a magazine decorates the door.
A fashion note describes capes returning in brown crepe de chine with Uttle bin tucks Valenciennes and a Russian guipure medallion. The cape features a simple shirted upper, shirred flounce, multiple shirred rows, cross straps, and two small shirred ruffles finished with Valenciennes edging.
A revival of the roundabout chair appears in creamy living space trends. Low, comfortable mahogany or pine reproductions feature chalk white or green Moor colors, with chintz cushions. white bedroom furniture grows popular with floral papers and silk bed coverings.
The piece argues that waterfalls worldwide are increasingly harnessed to generate electricity and reduce coal use. It cites A. A. Campbell Swinton's statistics showing around 1.5 million to possibly 2 million horsepower from waterfalls, with the United States leading. It notes coal savings of about 12 million tons annually and predicts waterfalls becoming industrial hubs, possibly making Niagara an American industrial center.
The New York throat nose and lung hospital opens a dispensary offering thrice weekly visits with treatment, advice, medicines, and necessary food and clothes. Patients learn hygienic diet, breathing, ventilation, bathing, and how to prevent reinfection while keeping work. It includes pneumatic cabinet therapy, outdoor exercise, gymnastic and respiratory routines, and airdrotherapy with massage.
Swiss traveler serves as a guide while fastening four ropes to his waist and taunts a bank cashier about fleeing and not paying a three dollar debt. The scene unfolds with tension as the guide insists on the claim.
In a New York restaurant scene a waiter struggles to decipher a guest’s request for Gounod’s Amber Ear. The leader debates the piece while the waiter relays the wish, and a curious exchange unfolds as the music balcony hosts the guest and the room carries a waft of fragrance and anticipation.
A fragmented piece describes Congressman Brownlow from Tennessee’s mountain region, his interest in the good roads movement, and contrasts rugged local life with distant Civilization. A Philadelphia drummer story and remarks on money and ignorance appear in conversation.
A Detroit area notice touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a cure for diabetes and related kidney ailments. G C Cleghorn of Port Huron claims relief after long suffering, praising the pills as a permanent cure and urging readers to try them. The item also notes general claims the pills cure backache and Bright's disease. An Indianapolis News remark on auto progress is included as a separate note.
A jumble of brief notes mentions a baby near death from an itching rash cured by Cuticura, a birthday mention bent toward misread text, a foot powder promotion for Allen's Foot-Ease, a cold cure claim with Laxative Bromo Quinine, and a joke about candlelight writing attributed to a famous author.
A fragmented, opinionated mediation page discusses liquor controls and public views. The text mentions a Chicago Daily News snippet and mixes reader quotes with notes about trains and a Florida tourist route. It reflects varied concerns and references multiple newspapers and travel lines.
A jumble of agricultural seed testimonials and medical cure pitches. Mentions crops yielding 80 bushels per acre in Wisconsin Illinois and other western states, seeds from John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin, and free samples with a catalog worth $100. Also includes medical quackery claims for piles and consumption with ads from Norwich NY and Chicago Daily News.
Mrs John La Rue of 115 Paterson Avenue Paterson New Jersey says years of kidney pain and backache had her crying and unable to work. After using Deans Kidney Pills she reports relief from back pain headaches dizziness and blood rushes to the head. The pills cost 60 cents a box and are sold by all dealers through Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Fragmentary report notes an African setting involving an American athlete and a second native figure tied to a ten thousand dollar bail. The details are unclear due to damaged text but indicate legal actions and cross national connections.
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