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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1926
Page
13
City of Aiken announces a tax collection period from October 1, 1925 to March 1, 1926 for the fiscal year beginning 1925. Residents who filed city and county tax returns in January and February are charged with city taxes and the levy lists general expense, bond interest, and sinking fund as provided by law.
The article reviews post Paris fashion, highlighting smoking jackets and tuxedo outfits as versatile day and evening wear. It suggests gowns and accessories from silk brocade to velvet, with various tailored jackets and coordinated skirts, predicting strong appeal among flappers and modern women.
The piece discusses robe de style gaining popularity and hints at a shift toward longer skirts with Paris openings suggesting more length. It highlights pleated, layered, gathered, and divided skirts, and notes uneven hemlines signaling skirts coming down.
Fashion notes show designers embracing varied waistlines from raised to natural as empire lines fade. Jumpsuits like Lanvin and Patou influence belts, peplums, and cape ensembles by O Rossen Louise Boulanger Redfern and Agnes. Parisian scarf bows and long pleated sleeves dominate, with fabrics from jersey plaid to chiffon lace and brocade featured.
All Paris shows delight in taffeta with Callot design featuring a black 1 piece chemise type frock. It displays a six inch pleated taffeta frill starting at the waist on the left side, tracing down the frock’s side and edging the skirt to form a flounce.
New York Republican Club speakers urge retention of sovereignty over the entire Philippines. They argue it serves Filipino benefit, provides raw materials for American industry, and secures a strategic naval station in the Orient.
A congressional investigation found 49 cents of every dollar paid for goods is absorbed by distribution costs from producer to consumer.
A 1 teaspoonful method claims quick cough relief by holding the dose in the throat before swallowing. It soothes irritation and loosens phlegm to remove the cause of coughing, effective for coughs chest colds bronchitis and croup. Suitable for children and sold by druggists as an economical remedy.
F B Evans leads a new stake in Red Lake Ontario after a famed rush across arid land to the Canadian field. Prospectors flock to Hudson for gear as officials plan a March 1 recording office, with experts predicting a richer yield than Porcupine, Kirkland, and other Ontario finds.
A rugged voice prophesies a coming mining boom in Ontario, claiming the current trail is too hard for the weak and predicting the spring will witness the biggest mining event in the region’s history. The speaker asserts strong confidence in rapid, significant industry growth.
A guide notes that choosing simple clothes of excellent fabrics, with proper accessories, conveys chic. It advises against over-spending on a single piece and suggests unified color schemes with small contrast through linings bags or jewelry.
Some farmers try to help themselves while others depend on Congress, as reported in the Pittsburg Gazette Times.
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