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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
2
A catalog note describes Crepe paper booklets offering many Christmas gift ideas for children. Printed animal figures are cut out and mounted on stiff cardboard to form movable or displayable likenesses suitable for festive decorations and playful creatures.
A vintage description outlines dainty baby gifts including a wash silk pillow and pink flannel jacket, trimmed with satin ribbon. It highlights silk covers, ribbon edges, and decorative girdles, promising appealing outfits for Christmastide remembrances and festive attire.
The article describes handmade Christmas candles and decorative lampshades measuring about 60 inches to brighten homes. It notes use of parchment, kaleidoscopes and crepe paper in making these gifts and highlights a crepe paper figure as a featured decorative piece.
Gift bags feature plain satin and satin with picot edges and brocaded ribbons in a great variety. Silks suit festive shopping and opera events, with mounts of metal or composition to harmonize patterns and ornaments. Beads pendants and cord or PRk covered forms are available to complete stylish gifts.
The article outlines gifts suitable for both men and women including a handkerchief case and a tie case. It describes how a length of ribbon, gold braid, and satin ribbons decorate shoe-trees and envelope-bound fashions.
A quaint article describes sachets as gifts for dainty women. It details gayly colored satin bags with ribbons and small safety pins, each ready to be transferred to clothing. A heart shaped sachet edged with ribbon frills is shown, with three small bags mounted by a tidy doll.
Fashion notes describe infeta and net dance and dinner frocks with low bodices, fringed net trims, and knotted fronts. Styles range from quaint to daring, emphasizing fullness at the hips and longer skirts, reflecting a shift away from extreme silhouettes toward refreshed, wearable spring lines.
The article praises affordable paper furnishings from Jamap and crepe papers. It notes decorative furs and ornaments for homes, including lamp shades, candle stands, vases, baskets, and winter bouquets made from natural materials. It highlights artificial flowers dipped in shellac and paper rope lamp stands with delicate crepe shades, featuring rose and blue color schemes.
The dialogue reflects a comparison between wealth and misery, questioning whether wealth can remove unhappiness and revealing a belief that poverty may still carry psychological burdens for those who remember the poor.
An old newspaper snippet touts Diamond Dyes as simple enough for any woman to transform fabrics wool silk cotton and blends into rich fadeless colors. It includes a color card with ten shades and notes on dyeing success with a variety of fabrics. A separate ad promotes Cole’s Carbolic Salve as a fast healing burn or cut remedy with free samples.
An advertisement asserts Ball's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh and related ailments taken internally to affect mucous surfaces, boasting no other diseases cured. It promotes Curlerura Soap and Cuticura Toilet Trio for complexion and grooming and notes mental exertion as distasteful to some.
A mining strift to Sontherete Mex lies almost on the Tropic of Cancer. At noon on June 21 the sun shines to the bottom, creating a vertical dust of 1100 feet or more.
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