Madeline Vionnet Shapes Winter Fashion With Draped Panels
A Paris fashion report details Madeleine Vionnet's winter collection featuring flying panels on front and back, jabot collars in fur, cape sleeves, and petaled dancing skirts. It notes narrow sleeves, white ermine accents, vivid blues and beiges, and fabrics from velours de laine to crepe de chine with embroidery and beadwork enhancing evening gowns.
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Madeleine Vionnet
Paris
Corres
Pondent
New York Tribune
Vionnet
Winter Car Care: Varnish and Paint Maintenance Guide
An instructional piece urges car owners to wash and sand the entire painted surface, varnish in a warm dust-free room, and allow drying time. It covers touchups for worn paint, rusted spots, top care, and repairing sagging tops or broken celluloid windows with practical steps.
Ribbon Girdles Fashion This Season Brightens Frocks
Street and afternoon frocks favor ribbon trims. A panel of bright ribbon hangs from the girdle at front back or sides. Girdles vary with frocks in soft braided twisted or twisted broad bands ending in fringe or silk buds at the sides.
Paisley Shawl Fashion Sparks New Accessories Trend
The Paisley pattern craze expands with handkerchiefs and underskirts. Delicate thin silk underskirts are faced with bright blue or red, broadening the fashion set by Paisley shawls and adding colorful, coordinated pieces for the season.
Battery Care and Safe Starting Tips
Instructions cover battery maintenance including water coverage, cooling via lights when hot, biweekly hydrometer tests, maintaining pure distilled water, surface cleaning after filling, and relieving starter load by delaying spark and using a single short press of the starting button.
Self Repairing Inner Tube Shows Puncture Solution
A Tulsa Oklahoma invention offers a self closing inner tube that uses extra rubber and corrugations to fit the shoe casing. When inflated it conforms to the casing and applies pressure to seal punctures, claiming effective closure of ordinary punctures.
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Scientific American
Tulsa
Okla
Automobile Maintenance Tips From Early 20th Century
The article offers practical car care guidance noting radiator filling during refueling, insulating wires with rubber tubing to prevent short circuits, mastering driving when problems arise, and periodically checking compression by spraying around spark plugs valve caps relief valves and removable head gaskets.
Modern Cake and Dessert Recipes From The Kitchen Cabinet
A collection of home baking tips and recipes including Silver Loaf Cake Pound Cake Sweet Apples and Quinces Honey Hermits and Orange and Walnut Salad with instructions on mixing, beating, and baking times to achieve tender results. Community reading notes on using packed eggs and pantry staples.
Notable Quote on Friends and Self from Bourne
The passage asserts that friends stimulate our best efforts and nurture our personality, calling forth latent qualities when we are in their presence. Randolph Bourne emphasizes the supportive role of friends in personal growth.
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Randolph
Bourne
Alsthem
W. L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas Shoes
Degler
Las Shoes
Various Edible Preparations From Old Cookery Notes
A collection of kitchen tips and recipes including bread crumb seasoned mixtures with butter, washed currants for grit removal, wheat cooked into a gelatinous breakfast dish, spinach and root vegetable soup with croutons, tuna salad with gelatin and dressing, and Southern Golden Flieece a baked cheese and egg dish served on toasted crackers.
Spicy Not Caustic Reprint From Mutual Magazine
A humorous exchange reprinted from the American Mutual Magazine features a man in a drug store asking for consecrated lye and the pharmacist clarifying concentrated lye. The banter pivots on puns with camphor sulphur cinnamon myrrh and an ammonia novice at it.
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American Mutual
Man
Boston Transcript
No Place for the Wife in Killarney Echoes
Green asks about taking his wife to the lakes of Killarney and the echoes there that repeat the human voice forty times. Breen responds that they won’t go to Kil larney.
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Killarney
Breen
New York Sun
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Laine
Richard Jeffreys
England
Pauline Mayo
Columbus
Portugal
Spain
France
Germany
Europe
Turkey
Egypt
Persia
India
China
Japan
San Francisco
Mr. Jeffreys
Western Newspaper Union
Robert Beverly Hale
Baker's
Watter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Mass
W.l.douglas
St. Douglas
Onus
Bette
Ton
Mase
LA Grippe
Lara
Garfield
F. Young, Inc
Temple
Springfield
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