Christmas Eve Burglarist Turned Down by Fate
Thomas Mare, a long careful schemer, plans to rob Theodore Longman for his family’s Christmas. He stages the break with a precise timetable but cannot lift the six thousand three hundred fifty dollars. Longman later promotes Mare to general superintendent, leaving Mare humiliated and defeated by his own failed crime.
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Thomas Mare
Adalia
Longman
Long Island
Theodore Longman
Mare
Thomas
Papa
Terest
Chomar Mare
Theodore Longuan
Miss Matilda Longman
Curry
Thomas Mure
McClure Nuwapaper Syndicate
WN Bervice
Christmas Without Father to the Cunninghams
Ellen of the Cunninghams faces a quiet Christmas without their father as the family remembers past celebrations. A neighbor recalls planning, while Ellen reads her mother's letter describing how the father seemed near and Christmas joy returned through memories of old carols and stockings.
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Bob
Ellen
Boston
Leila
Mica
Little Jim
Nora
Cunningham
Indy
Cunninghams
Leili
Wis
Kien
Morte Bowabser Syndicate
NU Bervice
Capes in high fashion for evening wear this winter
In a 1932 fashion feature Cherie Nicholas notes capes and near-capes dominate evening attire. Self fabric capes trim gowns in gold and silver lame with sable or blue fox borders, including white crepe dresses with detachable capes. Detachables offer economy and versatility for formal wardrobes.
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Ermine
Milady
Western Newspaper Union
One Way to Keep Warm in Yule Season Santa Job
A playful suggestion for staying warm during the Yule season by taking a job as a fully outfitted Santa Claus in a basement toy department. The idea frames seasonal work as the best method to endure winter chill.
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Santa Claus
Winter costumes must fit snugly in fashion
The article stresses careful attention to fit and silhouette in today’s garments. It notes dresses and coats are being tailored tighter, with corseting emphasized, a return to Victorian precision in styling.
Designers Bring Black Back as Afternoon Color
French designers celebrate black as a fashionable afternoon color. They show a strong preference for black fabrics and designs, highlighting its versatility, limitations, and enduring appeal as a staple in their latest collections.
Scarves urged to diversify color contrasts for outfits
Fashion note urges many scarfs in varied fabrics from chiffon velvet to hand knitted color blends and silk to supply essential color contrasts for suits and coats. The piece suggests no limit on scarf types beyond meeting the palette need.
Paris designers favor crystals with evening gowns
All well known French designers feature lavish bracelets with evening gowns. Vionnet especially sponsors bracelets with gowns. They are usually crystal in various transparent colors, harmonizing or contrasting the dress.
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Paris
Vionnet
Clanking Metal Belts Highlight Fashion Season
Metal belts with copper chromlin silver and gold create clanking accents for street and sportswear. Fabric scraps and ribbons add noisy contrast to new gowns with stone belts matching shoulder straps appearing in fashion spreads.
American Heroines Mary Jemison and the Genesee saga
Mary Jemison, known as the White Squaw of the Genesee, a White captive who wed Delaware and later Hickatoo, raised a large family on Genesee lands and remained near the Seneca, living among her captors then adopted people. The Long life story covers her capture in 1768, marriages, 17,000 acre deed, and final years on a Buffalo Creek reservation. Also recounted is the Porter family saga from Virginia to Tennessee and Ohio, captivity by Native Americans, and eventual return to colonial homes, ending with Mrs Porter’s 1829 Kansas move with her son James Porter.
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Mary Jemison
Genesee
Buffalo Creek
Letchworth Park
Genesee River
New York
Mary
March Creek
Buchanan Valley
Pennsylvania
Fort Duquesne
Ohio
Sheninjeg
Thomas Jemison
Port Pitt
Shen Injee
Hickatoo
T Seams
Union Cemetery
Kansas City
Mississippi
Samuel Porter
Elizabeth
Ireland
Richmond
Tennessee
Franklin
Tenn
Bunker All
Brandywine
Prankton
Mrs. Porter
Port Niagara
Canada
Mra. Porter
Kansas
James Porter
Western Newspaper Union
And Vice Versa As a rule the men who could say the most
A concise aphorism from the Toledo Blade notes that the most engaging speakers are often the quietest, suggesting restraint reveals worth in conversation.
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Toledo Blade
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Ufe
Adalla
Adaliy
Wall Street
Fant Hurst
Mangdale
Belle
Haig
Capes
By Cherie Nicholas
Cherie Nicholas
Smart Parisiennes
Mirande
Otter
Suzanne Lenglen
Elizabeth Porter
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