Useful Christmas Gifts Made by Deft Fingers
A homemaker can craft festive pins cushions and small accessories using readily available materials. Describes a porcupine pincushion with vandyked wool on canvas, a Dutch pincushion with silk panels and bran filling, an opera bag from book covers, and a wall hanging brass pin cushion with colored sacks for pins.
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Berlin
DIY Baby Ribbon Reel and Pretty Book Covers
Trifles in the fancy work line describe making a baby ribbon reel from cardboard, linen, and silk, with a bodkin loop and compact final form. Also guidance on decorative book covers using stiff cardboard, embroidery, and fabrics, plus edge finishing and ribbon ties.
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Kodak
What a Girl Likes Christmas Hints for Young Men
A humorous list of gift ideas for a young man to choose for a girl. Suggestions include a muff, a good picture, a belt, gloves, antique neck laces, opera glasses, hatpins, veil pins, oriental charms, a desk clock or desk, a book rack, a dog or Angora cat, a parasol, a jewel box, and books or dress items depending on taste and budget.
Christmas Presents You Can Make at Home
A guide to simple handmade gifts for Christmas. Hatpin cases show how to use ribbon, fabric and embroidery for a travel accessory, while a compact dressing box idea uses layered card, silk and padding. Doilies offer a quick craft using damask and scalloped edging for a decorative touch.
Christmas craft ideas and a Selah bridge debate
A reader offers gift suggestions including a compact bureau basket, a four piece Kodak film case with labeled envelopes, and a beaded workbag apron for crafters. A petition from Selah residents urges the county to build a Fourth Street bridge to shorten travel to the city while opponents warn of railroad crossings and warehouse district access.
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Selah
Fourth Street
Northern Pacific
Wind toppled palace wall bricks kill boy in San Francisco
In San Francisco on Market Street, Ed die Guneo, 11, was killed and Joseph Castro, 10, injured when bricks fell from a ruined palace hotel wall blown down by high wind. Police set ropes and halted traffic. no other injuries reported.
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Die Guneo
Joseph Castro
Palace Hotel
Market Streeet
Market Street
Embroidered Handkerchiefs and Opera Bags Then and Now
The piece suggests embroidering full first names on handkerchiefs to mark ownership, using thread padding. It describes a new opera bag crafted from gold or silver cloth with square-ring tops, crocheted in gray or yellow, and decorated with silk and bead embroidery in a short time.
New Handkerchief Bag For Christmas
The piece describes a small handkerchief bag made from two silk crocheted disks about three inches wide, joined to form an open top. It resembles a beaded watch and is worn from the belt with a lace handkerchief tucked inside, offering a quaint accessory for ladies.
Coffin Bros Closing Out Dry Goods at Cost
The Coffin Brothers advertise a dry goods closing out sale at cost, inviting ladies to take advantage of the opportunity as they specialize in furniture, carriages, harness, and saddles.
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Coffin Bros
A Clever Homemade Pipe Ornament for Christmas
A simple craft describes filling a briar pipe with cotton wool or bran, lining with velvet, wrapping three yards of baby ribbon around the stem, tying bows at the ends, and pinning the cushion for a dainty, novel bachelor’s Christmas decoration.
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Odds and
Ceefal
San Francisco
Washington
Yakima Valley
Yakima
Cascade Lumber Co
G. T. Aumiller, Drayman
West Yakima Av
St. Paul
Billings
Denver
Burlington
Burlington House
S. D. Hoover
So. 2d St
Walla Walla, Wash
THE
Pioneer Limited
Overland Limited
Milwaukee
Chicago
Omaha
Kansas City
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry
H. S. Rowe
Ortland
Ore
H. J. Manny
South Tenth St
Tacoma, Wash