Balancing Your Features In Hair and Hats
A vintage style piece discusses balancing facial features with headwear and hair tweaks. It notes large features suit bold hats and necklaces while small features benefit from subtler adornments, urging careful grooming to avoid drawing attention to any single trait and offering example lines from a classroom drill on imperative form. The passage also references Cuyahoga county road spending and advertises modern woman's grooming articles from John Reck & Son, including musical clothes brushes and window boxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Indianapollo
French Poiret style dress making guide for under ten dollars
A Pictorial Review prepared feature explains how to copy a Poiret gown in budget terms. It outlines fabric needs for overskirt, underskirt, and bustle inspired by French models and offers detailed sewing steps and measurements with prices noted, illustrating home dressmaking techniques for readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poiret
Laura Jean Libby on Heart Topics and Names in Love
A column discusses how a young woman judges romance by a suitor s name. It argues the man matters more than his name, warning against changing names for romance and suggesting lasting partnership comes from character, not labels. The piece notes wisdom grows with age. It closes with the proverb a rose by any name is sweet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Roseland
John Hanks
Peter Dun
Paul
Mrs
Jake
Mia
Roseland
John Hens
Airl
Rose
Rome
Athens
Biide
Valentire
Miss Libbey Replies to Your Letters Cartoon Advice
A column of Q and A on courtship and etiquette from Miss Libbey includes origin tales of Valentine’s Day, advice to a 21-year-old suitor and a 16-year-old, ring etiquette, and remarks on a wealthy family's marriage expectations. Also features verses and a poker anecdote from Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mies Libbey
Paraguay Roads Widen Into A Web Of Giants And Spiders
The Wide World Magazine describes Paraguayan roads as five yards wide under a tree canopy eighteen feet high. Enormous spiders weave thick yellow nets across paths, forcing travelers to defend themselves with a cutlass. Other webs form large irregular mazes spanning from ground to treetops, creating tangled, perilous passages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paraguay
Wide World Magazine
Insurance Agent Brings Life and Death Visit
A London minister strict about his morning study hour admits an insurance agent on a life and death call, prompting a rueful remark about the oddity of urgency. The photoplay industry is noted to employ over 300 million dollars in capital worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Argonaut
Asphalt Paper Pipes Promoted for Wide Austrian Uses
The Daily Consular and Trade Reports notes asphalt paper pipes claim many advantages over metal and clay piping. Originally for electric cables, they may replace iron, steel, copper, and clay piping except for hot fluids, acids, and petroleum products. Made from German asphalt paper, Austrian-made versions are lighter and slightly flexible, resist temperature changes, and avoid electrolysis from stray tram currents. Anglo-Austrian Bank of Vienna holds patents. American patents sought. A small hand-made sample will be sent to interested U.S. firms via the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Anglo-Austrian Bank of Vienna
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Washington
Old Stock Dying at the Top in a Luxury Society
An editorial laments that old stock shows less vigor than the new, arguing society is dying at the top as ease and public corruption saps civic duty. It warns neglect by old families harms state and communities and fears the old stock will be displaced by newcomers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guille Ce
Myrtle questions etiquette of writing to a vacation acquaintance
A mother explains that a girl should not write to a young man she met on a sunny vacation unless there is prior indication between them. The man would be the one to initiate by asking permission to write, Myrtle suggests, reflecting social expectations of courtship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle
Gnomes Feast Cherries Help Farmer Brown
A folk tale recounts how helpful gnomes in Farmer Brown’s orchard pick cherries during a bad year. They fill baskets for themselves but then decide to share all cherries with the farmer, leaving him surprised but grateful at dawn. Also an ad for Puke Foley's Honey and Tar Cough Syrup at Hindie’s Drug Stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer Brown
Brown
Lome
Foley
Sam's Handy Man Angle on Army's Role
A New York Sun opinion notes Secretary Garrison criticizing the army’s misuse of power and praising its disaster relief work in Mississippi towns. It argues the army, costing about 700000 dollars, shows readiness, discipline, and order restoration, rating the United States as possessing the world's best trained military force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Military Academy
Secortary
Betes
Tay
United States
John Regck & Son In Free Statement
A partial ad style notice notes emphasis on freedom from binding rules of bases and property. Cited as Town Top 1os, the fragment references John Regck & Son without clear dates or locations.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sophy
Sania
Michael
Cuyahoga County
John Reck
Pictorial Review
Poiret Frock
Ieee Ira Uae
Ithe Pictorial
sTraafing
Laura Jean Libby
McClure
Ted
Laura Jean Tabbey
President Street
Brooklyn
Ocupids
Maribeau
Valentine
Miss Libbey
McGregor
Ring
Mids Libbey
Theoden
Rk. m. (Milnes
Lord Houghton
Cleveland
Tom Keller
New Yorker
Tom
New York
Manhattan
Pat
Taida
Araguay Roads
Travelers
John Reck & Son
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pittsburgh
Edwin S. Lines
Episcopal Diocese of
Newark, N. J
Virginia Vale
ANGLE
Sam
John Regck & Son
Mwo
The
Laborde-Gelman Co
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!