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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1941
Page
9
A fragile beauty column offers tips on skincare and fashion with questions from readers. Advice covers anklets versus stockings for students, pores and cleansing routines, hair care, and climate affected skin. The tone is instructional and promotional for beauty products and routines.
Handwriting analysis promises a personalized character chart from your script. Send a sample with ten cents and a stamped self addressed envelope to Miss Stewart at The Gazette for private, confidential feedback. include extra samples and fees for analyzing friends.
The text presents a mixed query about a bridge hand counting singletons and a recipe for strawberry cream puffs. It includes questions about honor trick values in a counted hand and a step by step baking method with measurements and temperatures, ending with icing directions for the berry filling. The fragment also contains noisy OCR characters and misjoined words.
A fragmentary quiz list asks about Columbus boats lightning strikes geography and military ranks. Questions include the origins of the word pugaytoot and the OCD agency initials. It also seeks places whose names begin with A, the Monitor and Merrimac engagement location, and which state has no counties.
A plea from Miss Kay Stewart of The Charleston Gazette requests a confidential character analysis based on handwriting. The note asks for a sample written with pen and ink, enclosing ten or fifteen cents and a stamped return envelope, with the signer providing their name and address.
Amsterdam imposes gas and electricity rationing based on last year’s use. A minimum gas delivery of about 2,000 cubic feet will be made to every customer. Electricity allotments range from 31 to 41 percent of monthly kilowatt hours per apartment size. Exceeding limits incurs fines up to 50 percent of the bill and repeated violations may cut service.
Dorothy Dix advises a 19 year old American woman engaged to a foreign man that marriage would bring ongoing loneliness and conflict. She warns that differing traditions, education, and tastes create insurmountable barriers. happiness likely only if partners share class, culture, and mutual interests.
Miss Mary Rice hosts Epsilon Deltas at 1 30 P M on Wednesday. Marion and Mrs Holstein celebrate son Jerry with a surprise birthday party. Mrs W R Thomas plans a benefit dessert bridge for the British War Relief. Olga Nutter wedding event noted with many attendees. Emily Olmstead to speak at Methodist Young Women dinner in St Andrews Church. Numerous local residents listed among guests and attendees.
A humane essay on adopting from dog pounds. The author recalls picking Argus as a boy and urges careful selection. Pounds can yield loyal, lifelong companions with patience and proper training, while noting some dogs may be unsuitable or ill.
A South Dakota inmate writes in The Messenger prison paper that being in prison in America is safer than freedom in Europe. He states we are here safe and sound and not on the battle of Europe, reflecting wartime sentiment.
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