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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1935
Page
2
A 1920s style advice column promotes vitality and regular exercise to improve bust proportion and femininity. It dismisses external bust enhancements and offers three exercises to lift and tone the chest while stressing overall health, diet, posture, and regular outdoor activity. It notes modest price gains for Rhyth Co-operative Society shares.
A vintage advertisement details an Anne Adams pattern with a sleeve yoke Spanel design. It markets a practical woman’s dress suitable for varied sizes, notes fabric choices, sizes 44 through 46, and provides order details including price and mailing address in New York.
A writer describes selecting words as if choosing people naming Mehitabel Mincer Flossy Gab and Mary Natural. She notes Mehitabel’s festive dressage Flossy’s bold tags and Mary’s smart frock and uses their quirks to craft dialogue. The piece promotes careful vocabulary and a Home Institute Self Instruction a Writing booklet to help beginners.
A fragmented OCR line mentions a street and city state but lacks full names or actions. The readable bits suggest a mailing or address reference with district or street notation. No clear event, date, or institution is identifiable from the readable text.
Hollywood gossip and casting notes recount the busy holiday season with Martin Davies filming Hearts Divided for Warner Brothers, Lionel Barrymore’s Ah Wilderness, and Katharine Menjou’s secret wedding plans. Stars like Richard Barthelmess, Basil Rathbone, and Constance Bennett are mentioned amid production bets and party chatter.
The piece argues parents should allow children access to well chosen adult and wide reading. Denying books may spur curiosity and hidden reading, while many youths reread favored works at deeper levels as they grow. Proper selection supports lasting value over fleeting popularity.
Kay Browman, former resident of Wellesley, returns to Boston after a yachting party with Dr. Bob Dakin. He marries her in name only to escape an engagement to Priscilla Hyde. Weeks of separation follow as Bob buries himself in medicine while Kay grapples with his loyalty and a growing bond with Priscilla. Priscilla presses to renew contact, Kay confronts the encounter with quiet resolve, and the fragile triangle tests loyalties, patience, and a future.
Dorothy Dix lists common social irritants from smug self praise to constant talkers, self promoters, overbearing reformers, and perpetual borrowers. The column lampoons traits like narcissism, intrusive humor, and relentless social climbing, warning readers to blacklist such behavior. Copyright 1935 Dorothy Dix.
A dramatic scene unfolds as Kay hosts Priscilla at Ray and Bob Javes’s home. Priscilla confronts Kay about Bob, admitting hurt and seeking friendship, while Kay deflects and contemplates Bob’s preference to avoid Priscilla. Bob arrives abruptly, threatening to rekindle past love.
Assembly of God of Canneston plans to build a church in Ute near future. Rev R Webb, pastor, announced the project. Superintendent said two Sunday schools are about one and a half miles apart with a total membership of 210.
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