Functions of the Skin Across Surface Glands
The piece emphasizes the skin as a perfect body covering and active organ. It notes sebaceous glands lubricate the skin and sweat glands remove waste through perspiration, estimating about three pints of fluid lost daily. The author praises the skin’s resilience and broad role in health and comfort.
Tomorrow's Horoscope by Genevieve Kemble
Horoscope column dated Friday October 21 1927 notes celestial influences from Mars Venus and Moon on social and artistic endeavors. It highlights personal year ahead for those born on the day and includes brief Q A sections on skin care nasal health tobacco effects and rheumatic symptoms.
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Mars
Venus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
G. H. Gilbert
Dressing the Fair Salads from The Home Kitchen
Jeannette Young Norton offers seasonal salad ideas with crisp presentation and careful dressings. Recipes include Spanish Sardine Salad, Stuffed Lettuce Salad, Oyster Salad, and Cauliflower Salad, each with garlic rubbed bowls, olive garnishes, and tailored dressings using oil, vinegar, lemon juice, and seasonings.
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Jeannette Young Norton
Advice to Girls and the Widow at the Office
A young widow in a large office faces persistent attention from married male colleagues. The adviser urges caution, suggests adopting a reserved demeanor, avoiding accepting invitations, and clarifying that wages come from work, not social activity to prevent gossip and protect her position.
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An Andie Laurie
Merry Widow
Erry
Tucked maroon crepe satin dress by Vera Winston
Afternoon dress features maroon crepe satin tucked from the collar to hip line. Cream crepe satin rounds the collar vestee and cuffs with cut out vest detail. Circular skirt offers fullness in front and around hips below the waist line, paired with a wide leather belt.
Annie Laurie Querent Seeks Advice On Love Lie
A young woman, eighteen, writes she is dating a man who later reveals he is married. She questions whether it is acceptable to continue seeing him despite the deception and her strong feelings.
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Har
Annie Laurie
Toots
JO AN
Advice on friendship and romance from Annie Laurie column
A reader asks how to handle a married man and another asks how to keep a weekend suitor from dating others. Annie Laurie counsels endings, caution against jealousy, and suggests friendship may mature into love with patience.
Three-Minute Journeys By Temple Manning
A traveler contrasts Western beauty norms with Negrito fashion among the Pigmy people. It discusses shiny faces from powders, shaved foreheads, removed eyebrows, pointed teeth, and rattan garments, illustrating cross cultural judgments and the saying about following local customs.
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Temple Manning
Women A Mystery Even To Each Other
Column by Louis E Bischoff examines the elusive psychology of women as rivals and individuals. It argues women are intensely self focused, each more different than the next, while men are portrayed as more collective.
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Louis E. Bisch
Fashion notes on trims and boots on Fifth Ave
Seen on Fifth Avenue samples describe velvet frocks with metal brocade trim and lace details, a gold belt, Russian embossed leather boots, and rhinestone edged chiffon attire. A contrasting commentary discusses gender traits and predictability, ending with a 1927 King Features copyright.
Odd and Interesting Facts from a Historic Page
A collage of short items notes stout men as long distance swimmers, a trapdoor spider’s gravity door, a Arizona woman who bore a twenty fourth child after twenty four years of marriage, and seven surviving. It also mentions January rain affecting wheat yield, Bradford police with rear lamps, butter fat aiding TB resistance, and British Royal Navy piano tuning courses.
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Arizona
Absorbing Sequel Unfolds Love's Embers Tale And Red Beard Suspicion
In a dusty scene from a serialized tale, Katie reveals to the narrator that Mr Graham chased a Transvanian and suspected a red bearded man connected to a clarifying warning. The maid’s narration hints at owl signals and hidden dangers near the Graham household as tension builds.
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Adek Kalie
Madge
Red-Beard
Dicky
Katie
Mr Graham
Dot
Meester Graham
Graham
Meester
Dees
Graham Coom
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New York City
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Bureau of Patents
Dr, Copeland
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Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
By Annette Bradshaw
Vera Winston
Louise, Bisch
5Th Ave
Miss Shopper
Eel
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Bradford
England