Pink holiday gown crafted for Miss Lockett by designers
Diary notes Grace Thorncliffe recounts fitting and designing a pale pink flower trimmed evening gown for Miss Lockett. Madame and the French designer discuss color, materials, and draping, with velvet flowers adding dash and crystal earrings ready to complete the holiday ball look.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Thorncliffe
Madame
Mims Lockatt
Locksett
Misa Lockett
Miss Lockett
Dows
My Marriage Problems in a Mountain Resort Dinner Scene
Adele Garrison narrates a tense domestic scene as Claire Foster and Dicky awkwardly navigate remnants of an affair. The group, including Mrs. Barker, shares a cautious meal while old tensions surface and wary welcomes mask ongoing emotions.
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Adele Garrison
Claire Vorter
Anesa
Oak Taxton
Dicky
Gabe
Steele
Brat Stove
Wim
Mr. Bar- Ber
Claire Poster
Claire
Mma
Cooperation Cuts Christmas Gift Duplication in Bridgeport
Bridgeport social agencies report reduced duplication in Christmas aid through the Confidential Exchange at 105 Chapel Street. Catholic Charitable Bureau Elk Visiting Nurses Salvation Army C C S and many churches coordinate to deliver baskets candy toys and clothing to needy families.
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Tridgeport
Charity Organization Society
Chapel Street
Catholic Charitable Bureau
Elk
Salvation Army
Tran
Advice for girls Annie Laurls and gray eyes
Advice column responds to two letters from young women. The first urges rekindling with an 18 year old who was left by a five year elder suitor after a quarrel. The second, from a younger woman, advises weighing loyalty as a rival romance unfolds and cautions against expecting marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Laurls
Els
Tom
Tam
Gray
Ray
Purple and White Decorations at Holy Cross Dance
Bridgeport social agencies aim to expand Christmas gift distribution through the Confidential Exchange. The Bridgeport Undergraduates Club of Holy Cross College hosts a large informal dance at Stratfield on Wednesday evening December 27 featuring Wittstein’s Orchestra, with plans for unique Christmas greens and purple and white decorations and several surprises.
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Holy Cross
Holy Cross College
Wittstein
New Haven
Siat
Horoscopes and Engagements Highlight Local Paper
Tomorrow's Horoscope by Genevieve Kemble predicts a prosperous yet cautious period for Sunday and Monday with Venus guiding blessings and domestic happiness for those born on the day. An engagement notice reveals Su Lacy Blaeys of Black Rock to James P. Magahern, with Blaeys’s education and teaching role noted and Magahern linked to Villanova and DuPont in Newburgh.
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Genevieve Kemble
Venus
John Blaeys
Balmforth Street
Black Rock
Su Lacy Blagys
James P. Mazahern
John J. Magahern
Wilmington
Del
Miss Blaeys
Bridgeport High School
City Normal School
Gagahern
Vilanova
DuPontikotd Co
Newbursh
What Santa Might Put in Your Christmas Stocking
A reflective column urges gifts of goodwill and love over consumer desires. It recalls a red book memory, advocates kindness to strangers, and imagines packing acts of trust, friendship, and faith into Christmas gifts for others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline
Home-Mark Guide to Holiday Table Decorations
Home style decorating tips for Christmas dinners emphasize practical choices over costly flowers. Suggestions include damask cloths, centered fruit displays, festive centerpieces such as a red stocking, gilded straw horn, and red rose place cards. For a fancier setup, an English table with damask cloth, a papier mache boar head centerpiece, holly, and elaborate courses are described alongside decorative confectionery and place cards.
Christmas Dinner Table Decorations in Old Fashioned Style
A guide to festive table settings using embroidered linen, blue china, and white crepe paper with holly borders. Proposes centerpieces of holly and red apples, relief dishes, and greenery accents, with paper garlands and novelty elements like a Jack Horner pie.
Odd Christmas Facts and Folk Traditions Across Lands
Natural intelligents saw powers divining Christmas. Tales tell cattle kneeling in German Alps on Christmas Eve and deer offering reverent glances to the Great Spirit in Upper Canada. English Monmouthshire recalls a bass salmon up on Christmas morning and other playful rites of the season.
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German Alps
Fowizon
Upper Canada
Mir
Howison
Monmouthshire
England
Christmas Rescue for Hungry Dog in White House Tale
A hungry tramp dog named Jerry finds shelter after a cruel greeting from a man at a white house. A friendly white poodle Wooley Poodle shares bread, leads to a bath, and the mistress adopts Jerry as a Christmas present. The tale ends with Jerry finding a home and a happy Christmas dinner. later a note mentions the Bridgeport WCTU voting against Fatty Arbuckle’s return to film.
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Erry
White House
Jerry
Uttie
Wooler
Edsine
Wooley Pondle
Ifearas
Myr
Jerry Talvly
Wooley Poodle
Yellow Jerry
Wooley
Wooley Pood
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Bridgeport
Fatty Arbuckle
Words of Wise Men Reflect on Knowledge and Humility
A fragmentary passage argues that knowledge grows in public, happiness comes from chosen friends, and modesty can be a weakness if it prevents virtue. It cautions against arrogance and stresses tempered self-perception in social life.
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Claire Foster
Madge
Cal
Marge
Pye
Tully
Maige
Mics
Barker
Juanita Hamel
Miss Tree and
Confdential Exchange
Bridgeport UN
Christmas Is
Mark
Ing
Statistician
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