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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1930
Page
6
Blot Out Contagion argues for hygiene and prevention to fight spreading diseases. It urges daily hand and face cleansing, covering coughs, keeping children home when ill, and minimizing germ exposure in schools. It notes vaccines for scarlet fever and diphtheria and stresses public cooperation in disease prevention.
A wife reflects on parenting changes as her son Junior grows up and her nephew Roderick shows creative urges. Her husband Dicky teases plans for a future boxing themed venture while urging seriousness and shared decision making. The scene ends with a vow to discuss a plan for resolving tensions, with continuation promised.
The planetary configurations today presage generally adverse conditions in business and personal affairs. Employment appears hazardous with potential dissension and self-defeat. Social and romantic relations may show complex patterns. a birthday child could have a temperamental, erratic disposition needing early discipline and self-control.
A letter asks if a girl should walk home with a boy and how to handle puppy love. Annie Laurie cautions about practical friendships, urges enjoying healthy companionship, and preparing for a future. A responder suggests a frank talk to clarify if genuine care remains and to value long friendship.
Bulbs like jonquil and narcissus are poisonous. London installs 1,100 telephones weekly. About 79 percent of industrial accidents could be prevented with more factory care. Charles Dickens is the era’s best seller with 25,000,000 copies. Lichen thrives on mountain tops but shuns cities, dying in smoke.
The piece argues space is tight in modern homes and promotes multifunctional furniture to handle books radios telephones and typewriters. It highlights bookcase tables combined shelves and hidden radio setups like a mantel radio with concealed loudspeaker and suggests practical storage solutions for small living rooms.
The article notes desks with a large left side drawer that swings out to reveal a typewriter on a wood slab for comfortable use. Portable typewriters fit into deep desk drawers, keeping them out of sight like stationery. It also mentions two purpose furniture for kitchenette households.
Louise Duntley highlights sport wear and Paris fashion in a 1930 feature. The piece notes bows dominating frocks and bodices, gray and purple outfits, fox collars, and taffeta gowns. It also describes versatile tennis wear blending skirts with trousers and a sunlit coastal image of a steamer bound south.
Practical tips from the era cover mildew on linen using dampening marks soap and chalk powder then washing normally. A note on whitening fish with vinegar in the water and cleansing greasy hands with paraffin before soap and water.
Josephine Huddleston surveys the beauty industry noting that manufacturers invest in research to improve toiletries. She stresses consumer experience, urges women to test products before buying, and highlights the shift toward science driven formulations and multiple skin type creams.
A fashion diary note describes a social week with neighbors the Grays visiting town for a brief stay. The narrator plans a dinner and theater outing, insists on hosting, and previews a brand-new marine blue satin evening gown with net insets and a bowed detail.
In a dreamlike scene Ting-a-Ling and friends reach a Tea-Time Factory beyond a garden and a brook. Chimneys shaped like crullers serve as shortcuts for Chinamen entering the factory, while five o clock marks tea time. The episode ends with curiosity about what lies inside tomorrow.
A collection of brief 19th century style maxims attributed to Emerson Carlyle Terence Cicero Shelley Jerrold La Rochefoucauld Seneca and Cicero. The fragments discuss history science thought chance study ignorance reputation memory judgment and the relationship between luxury and avarice.
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