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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1938
Page
5
The Charleston Gazette presents a 1938 serial featuring Louise Holmes and Lois Leeds with a domestic fashion and health advice column set in Hollywood talk. Readers submit questions about posture, beauty, and slimming, answered with vintage body image guidance from Miss Leeds.
Variety reports a new Jitter Ward at a major radio station provides soft lighting chairs and reading material to ease talent awaiting tryouts. The piece notes oddball pop culture references and advertising blurbs about fashion dating and beauty guidance from Mademoiselle and Lois Leeds.
A boy argues Grip the ten month old Doberman acted rightly by defending the country-roost against a woodchuck and a rooster pinning the uncle to punish the dog. The Gazette notes the boy’s defense as he seeks reader input on right or wrong.
The Charleston Gazette Pattern Department offers Anne Adams summer pattern book and pattern 4921 with a long pointed bodice and caped capelet style. Describes fabrics, sizes 34 to 48, yardage for size 36, and step by step instructions, priced 15 cents pattern and 25 cents for book and pattern together, order to New York.
CLARKSBURG June 3. William A. Harrington retired as city plant superintendent for Lie Hope Natural Gas after more than 39 years of service. He will be honored by fellow employees at a banquet Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs Alex Sherman entertained restaurant employees with a banquet and dance Thursday night at the Embassy club on St Albans road Honor guests were Miss Louise Taner and Miss Ruth Withrow who celebrated birthday anniversaries Other guests included Ernestine Gore Lola Nunnelly Mae Ruth ledge Reva Sargent Charlie Jacoby Joseph McCracken GT Shargent William Bolling Mike Tarras Louis Commetti and Thomas Fraggakias
Sally Norris, heiress to a fortune, attends a party hosted by Mr. Stanley in Romford with Andy Kay escorting her. Herbert Stanley, grandson, flirts and presumes Sally might join the cinema world, while Andy hints at a hidden past as Sally grows drawn to him amid social tension.
Mrs. Lucie Reil explains color design for rooms at the Charleston Home Show to be held June 18 to 22 at the WCHS auditorium. She outlines using two figured fabrics for accents, dominant floor color, and layered hues to create mellow richness and gracious hospitality in a southern colonial living room. The article discusses calory psychology, furniture group planning, and practical slips for Chippendale chairs to achieve harmony from ceiling to carpet.
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