Fashion Notes: Frocks With Full Skirts and Popular Jewelry
Taffeta frocks showcase very full skirts while jewelry enjoys a vogue. The era favors ornate accessories and voluminous silhouettes.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1920
Page
13
Home Remedy Turns Gray Hair tocolor In Minutes
A home remedy promises to restore black brown or light bronze tones by dissolving Orlex powder in four ounces of distilled or rain water and applying it through the hair. Each box includes full directions and a $100 gold bond guarantee that the product contains no silver lead zinc sulphur mercury aniline coal tar or derivatives and will not rub off or feel sticky.
Bonar Law Says Irish Home Rule Bill To Be Introduced
Government spokesman Andrew Bonar Law announced in the House of Commons that the Irish home rule bill would be introduced tomorrow. He added the second reading would follow once the House digests the measure.
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London
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Missing Broker Edward Maxwell Found Dead in Colorado Springs
Edward T. Maxwell, a stock broker who disappeared from Philadelphia on Feb. 10, died today in a Colorado Springs hospital. A telegram to his wife, Mrs. Edith Maxwell of Boston, announced the death. He was 34. a city-wide search had been underway since his disappearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Edward T. Maxwell
Colorado Springs
Maxwell
Edith Roberts
Boston
Take Truck Shoe Cases and Horses Take Truck
The mystery of a missing truckload of shoes and horses was settled when a Superior Criminal Court jury found two young men, Ernest Mulligan and Paul Ployer, guilty after nine days of trial. Three others pleaded guilty during the proceedings. The truck owned by Sanborn's Express carried 29 cases shipped by Lee brothers of Athol to F. E. Burke Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Criminal Court
Ernest Mulligan
Paul Ployer
Sanborn’s Express
Lee Brothers
Athol
F. FE. Burke Company
Boston Shoe Theft Trial Reveals Multistate Heist
William Burke, driver, and Paul Ployer led a scheme stealing 24 cases of women and children shoes from Boston & Maine yards. The loot moved through restaurants, into Worcester, and to Milford street payments. verdicts: Burke and Fantus guilty of conspiracy. Scarpo guilty of conspiracy. Mulligan guilty of receiving. Ployer guilty of conspiracy and larceny. Mulligan not guilty on conspiracy. Sentences pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Burke
Express
Boston & Maine
Burke
Broad Street
Paul Ployer
Ployer
Mulligan
Holden
Fielding
Boston
Thomas Scarpo
Fantus
Boston Honors Charlotte Cushman with School Named for Her
Boston commemorates actress Charlotte Cushman by naming a public school in her memory. The piece recalls her stage triumphs as Meg Merrilies and Lady Macbeth, cites critic William Winter, and notes Cushman’s origins in Boston and burial at Mt. Auburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Charlotte Cushman
Meg Merrilies
Lady Macbeth
William Winter
Booth’s
Richmond Street
John Gilbert
Mr. Winter
Lord Byron
Henry Irving
Mrs. Siddons
Miss Cushman
Col Duncan Named Head of New England Volunteers
Col Walter A. Duncan takes command of the New England Volunteers of America succeeding Col Fred A. Lindsay who goes to Seattle. Mrs Nellie Foster Duncan assists. their son Walter E. Duncan majors at Harvard Law. The couple plan to expand work to all New England cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Duncan
Colonel Duncan
The
Volunteers of America
New England
Walter A. Duncan
Rocky Mountains
New England Volunteers
Fred A. Lindsay
Seattle
Duncan
Nellie Foster
Chicago
Walter E
University of California
Harvard Law School
Tank Corps
Duncans
Pattie W. Lindsay
Pacific
No divorce for Gowen denied in Maine Supreme Court
Ernest L. Gowen manager of the Gladstone Hotel Boston sought an absolute divorce from Georgia May Gowen of Sanford Maine on cruel and abusive grounds. The petition was denied by Associate Justice L B Deasy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
Ernest L. Gowen
Gladstone
Boston
Georgia May Gowen
Sanford
L. B. Deasy
Supreme Court
Gilbert H. Kimball
Cambridge
Lizzie M. Kimball
Kennebunk
Beatrice Legard
Hilaire Legard
Beverly
Mass
Seth A. Tarr
Berwick
Etta Tarr
Malden
Ida Coutros
James J. Coutros
Lowell
Edward JF. Nutter
Sadie R. Nutter
Haverhill
Deasy
Dearborn A A Dance Scheduled for Washington's Birthday
The Dearborn A A of Roxbury will hold its 12th annual dance on Washington's Birthday at Hibernian Hall Dudley Street. Officers include James Miars president Henry Devine vice president Jeremiah Stooley treasurer William Gorton secretary and Frank Careys and James O'Brien sergeant at arms. The dance committee lists Frank Wren William Dwyer Joseph Sanger Packy Jordan and John Gately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dearborn A. A
Roxbury
Hibernian Hall
Dudley Street
James Miars
Henry Devine
Jeremiah Stooley
Wiliam Gorton
Frank Careys
James O’brien
Frank Wren
William Dwyer
Joseph Sanger
Packy” Jordan
John Gately
Government to Run Road as Grand Trunk Deal Reached
Shareholders of the Grand Trunk railway system vote to transfer control to the Canadian government with Canada and United States operations. Disgruntled members protest terms as the government offers debentures and four percent guaranteed stock in exchange for non voting certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Grand Trunk Railway System
Canada
United States
Albert Smithers
Fruit Liver Tablets advertised as cure for stomach trouble
An advertisement from Sacramento promotes Fruit Liver Tablets as life saving after a decade of stomach pain. Mrs. Evs Stolz claims relief after a trial box and continued use for a year, with pricing 50c a box or 6 for $2.50, trial 25c from Fruit-a-tives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fruit-A-Tives, Limited
Ogdensburg
N, Y
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