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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
2
German forces have Antwerp and surrounding forts in their grasp while the Belgian army evades capture. King Albert and the main Belgian force reach Ostend after a 43 hour bombardment, with the queen reportedly departed for England. British and French units suffer losses as they retreat.
The House Banking and Currency Committee in Washington defeated the Henry bill proposing a $500 billion government loan to national and state banks to move cotton crops. Only Representatives Eagle Ragsdale and Wingo voted for the measure as the committee tabled it by 10 to 3.
Two thousand Mexican street railway workers strike for higher wages halting Mexico City transit. Admiral Breusing, naval writer and acting All Deutscher Union president, dies in Berlin. Charles I of Roumania dies. Ferdinand to succeed. Cardinal Ferrata dies in Rome after appendicitis. US consul Diederich escapes Antwerp to Ghent by car. Count Albert De Mun, French Academy member and former cavalry captain, dies in Bordeaux.
Connie Mack's Athletics lose 1 to 0 to the Boston Braves at Shibe Field Philadelphia as Plank and James pitch. In other news a 20 ton bowlder crushed a Denver Rio Grande train car near Grand Junction injuring many. gunmen Bertsche and detectives Monaghan and Egan are wounded in Chicago. Nathan Spira involved in a pistol duel.
Colorful autumn hats dominate the season with sand gray tan and midnight blues. Descriptions include a bedford wool hat with a small turban shape, a dark equateur shade, scalloped garnet sailor, and a sand colored cantenier with ostrich and marabou trim.
The passage envisions reviving midcentury styles from the fifties sixties and eighties. It predicts women will wear billows and frills with prim basques while embracing capes circulars and mantillas and hints at a renewed crinoline trend looming ahead.
Grace Margaret Gould writes in the Woman's Home Companion about fashion cycles and the need to look old fashioned to appear stylish. She notes this autumn and winter will see a revival of quaint styles and looks.
The piece notes current stationery trends stressing severe neatness and bold address printing with large plain lettering. It advises placing the address in the right-hand corner and the telephone number and telegraphic address in the opposite corner, with rural houses showing the nearest railway station in small diagonal text.
A drain pipe umbrella stand can be dressed up for a small hall by applying a narrow stripe paper pattern and preserving upright stripes. After drying, coat with transparent varnish for easy cleaning with a damp cloth.
Fashion shifts on where to wear artificial flowers with a rose or poppy now placed on the left hip of gowns. Green satin and Premet models showcase pink and black blooms at this point, leaving the autumn boutonniere choice uncertain and fashionably fluid.
We do all kinds of wood work repair ing chairs furniture buggies and wagons Saw filing gaming and set ting Winter wagons a specialty.
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