Satin Trimmings and Cards Highlight Favorite Dress Details
A fashion note highlights waxed satin fabrics and playing cards as favored trims for suits and street dresses, reflecting stylistic tastes of the period.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
19
A fashion note highlights waxed satin fabrics and playing cards as favored trims for suits and street dresses, reflecting stylistic tastes of the period.
Mrs Geo Chisholm of Dorchester Mass says rheumatism left her unable to move yet after taking Weldona for six weeks she can perform housework and walk downtown despite heavy snow. Weldona rep claims over a hundred recoveries and offers a free book via Weldona Co 132 Boylston St Boston 14 at Houghton Duttons drug dept.
Cardinal Mercier recounts German aims to partition Belgium and enforce bilingual schools while urging Belgian clergy and officials to resist. He describes the March 1917 decree creating dual Flemish French administrations, Austrian-like control over education, and the quiet, principled protest by Belgian leaders to keep schools open and certificates autonomous.
Malines August 5 1917 Cardinal Mercier writes to Pope Benedict XV detailing the Belgian episcopate stance on the occupying powers push for administrative separation He argues the move aims at national disruption and cites Bar on von Bissing memoirs to support his view
The Black Star Line steamer Yarmouth, which left New York for Havana January 17 with liquor, returned due to storm damage and was libelled for 11,791 by a repair firm. The libel was filed on sailing day but later settled. The vessel is operated and manned by Negroes.
Bridgeport January 22 sale announced of the Remington Arms Company plant and Remington City with 60 worker homes. Three New York holding corporations are the purchasers.
Helen, in Mabel Herbert Urner's serial The Married Life of Helen and Warren, continues in Sunday Post Magazine with a new installment exploring boarding house life. The piece previews domestic dynamics and social observations in a mid century Boston setting.
The article describes spring 1920 fashion marks with pendant earrings a key feature. A fashion devotee tops her coiffure with a large shell comb and finishes with a feather fan. The details bear the season’s dates and styling cues.
Clergymen of Waltham plan action against Sunday night symphony concerts at Asbury Temple. Rev Frederick H Page of the Wal tham Congregational Church says proceeds largely go to paid artists and the event lacks religious character, drawing worshippers from other churches.
Annie Cohen 18 wife of Israel Cohen of Turner's Falls faced commitment after withdrawing 1143 claimed by her husband as his. He testified he lent the money to deposit in a trust savings, but she reportedly placed it in her name and later with her brother Harry Drapkin, prompting the court action.
Boston Elevated trustees authorize purchase of 100 new cars as part of a four year plan and budget. The order includes steel cars for Elevated service center entrance semi-convertible cars and safety cars. One safety car currently operates on the Grove street Roxbury line.
A frock of blue serge features piping details and rose colored duvetyn buttons for a refined decorative touch.
Dover New Hampshire resident reports ten year battle with eczema ending after using Fruit-a-tives and Sootha-Salva. Claim states two boxes of Fruit-a-tives and one box of Sootha-Salva cleared symptoms and left the patient entirely free. Remedies priced at 50c a box six for 2.50 with trial size 25c. Asks readers to obtain from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited Odgensburg NY or local dealers.
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