Paris Skirts Down Amid Jestful Parade
In Paris on November 8 the city lightens fashion as skirts shorten. A playful quip likens Lutetia to a world gay center, recalling Julius Caesar’s historic reference to a fashionable locale.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1921
Page
21
In Paris on November 8 the city lightens fashion as skirts shorten. A playful quip likens Lutetia to a world gay center, recalling Julius Caesar’s historic reference to a fashionable locale.
Parisians abandon knee skirts as overstocked dressmakers, favoring elegant straight lines and dark blue tones this winter. Bohemians stretch frocks while Champs-Elysees styles inspire modest, clingy silhouettes. Longchamp and Auteuil reflect the trend with ankle-draping skirts and oversized scarves.
Wholesale price list from Boston shows apples beans butter cheese and eggs with per 100 lb and per 50 lb quotes. Includes natives Canadian and California fruits and vegetables, beef sides, creamery extras, oats meal and flour, poultry prices, sugar quotes, and hay prices across regions.
Advertorial claims energy and vitality benefits from Ironized Yeast tablets. It promotes yeast-derived vitamins and iron as a blood builder, touting ease of use, 10 days’ treatment per package, and a dollar price. Sold by druggists. produced in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr. Tumulty recounts in Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him how the president kept a watchful waiting stance in the Mexican controversies and the inside facts of diplomacy during wartime.
In April 1914 at dawn, President Wilson and aides Bryan and Daniels debated seizing the German ship Ypirango at Vera Cruz to stop munitions deliveries. They determined immediate action was needed to prevent weapons landing, a decision that could force U.S. into war with Mexico. The plan, conveyed to Admiral Mayo, set Vera Cruz in motion and surprised reporters the next day.
The Dorchester Center Kennel Club will stage an all breed sanctioned dog show next Wednesday at the Dorchester School Center under the Dorchester Mothers and Homemakers Club. Hindy the Post cat may enter, depending on his health work against downtown rat nuisance. Judges cover many breeds with prizes and silver and special awards.
The excerpt records President Wilson weighing intervention in Mexico during 1916. Tumulty recalls private letters urging action, Wilson arguing against war, fearing bloodshed and political risk, stressing humanity, forbearance, and delaying until conditions justify a principled strike.
The Boston Marine Society held its 168th annual meeting at the American House with large attendance. Officers elected include Captain Oscar C. Nicherson as president, Captain Harold J. Colbeth as vice president, Aberdeen H. Child as secretary, and Captain Samuel Pray as treasurer. James Gurney was elected a trustee while Herman T. Parker joined the observation committee and H. H. Litchfield the finance committee.
Miss Margaret Drayton of 21 Wellington Street South End said she found morphine and a hypodermic needle in her room only as police arrived. Special Officers O Neill and Disessa testified they found her with the drug and needle. she received three months in the House of Correction.
Horace E. Hitchcock former postmaster at Glen Dale was held for the federal grand jury on a charge of converting government funds to his own use. He furnished bail of 2000.
Five destroyers named Maury Mahan Murray Luce and Lansdale arrived at the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday for docking but eight have received no orders and no repairs are scheduled.
A vintage ad claims instant relief from colds with a dose taken every two hours for three doses. It promises to unclog passages, stop a runny nose, relieve head ache and feverishness, costs only a few cents, and contains no quinine.
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