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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1937
Page
7
Hollywood readers seek facial hair, eyebrow, and makeup guidance. The Leeds column offers styles for round faces, tall teens, and plus-size readers with tips on coiffure, lash care, powders, and color palettes. It includes age and height weight guidance, plus cautions about cosmetics.
Pattern 4442 offers a dainty summer dress with a curved yoke, collar, and diurnal bodice in one piece with abort sleeves. Misses and women sizes 14 through 42 priced at 8 dollars for the pattern and 15 cents for pattern book or 26 cents for both. Order from The Charleston Ginette Pattern department.
The McKelvey Stores corporation opens a new unit in South Charleston with a formal opening today. Edward F. Koch serves as president and general manager, having organized the company which began with the first store at Laren. Stores are located in Huntington Madison Ripley Clendenin St Albans at Nitro.
The Rev. A. C. Kiser has accepted a call to be pastor of the Clendenin Advent Christian church starting August 1. He has served as pastor of the Charleston circuit, comprising two churches.
Crochet blouse or two piece pattern from Easy Laura Wheeler guide. Pattern 1512 and 1456 describe a white or colored butterfly mesh yoke blouse with contrasting sleeves, plus a plain skirt option, including illustrations and material lists. Priced 10 cents each, 20 cents for both. send pattern requests to The Charleston Gazette Needlecraft Dept New York.
Karen Mallory confronts love and duty as Dick Stoddard declares his lifelong love, while Mallory reveals his interference and demands marriage. Karen flees with her father, leaving Dick torn between loyalty and passion as a tense, final farewell unfolds.
An advertisement extols Kellogg's All-Bran as a remedy for constipation by adding bulk to the diet. It claims the cereal absorbs water to form a mass that gently clears the system, while supplying vitamin B and iron. Two tablespoons daily with milk or cream, or three times daily in severe cases, is recommended. Sold at grocers and guaranteed by Kellogg in Battle Creek.
A Maplewood New Jersey dogcatcher faced threats after dogs learned to avoid him. Reports describe how stray canines ignored his net and cart, leaving the pound nearly empty and streets full of dogs. A suggested replacement would risk similar wariness from dogs.
Rupert Q Painter of Oak Hill fired at the Charleston recruiting station yesterday and filed an enlistment application for the U S Army. He was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana for final examinations. Recruits are being accepted for infantry and field artillery at Fort Benjamin Harrison and for field artillery and mechanized cavalry at Fort Knox Kentucky and for the Tenth infantry at Fort Thomas Kentucky.
City building inspector George B. Hendricks issued permits to Ray Laton to construct a $100 garage on In Frame Street and to Ira Moore to alter a dwelling on Fourth Avenue at a cost of $100. Forestry officials blame careless smokers for starting nearly 50,000 fires annually.
A 40 page booklet titled Games for Good Parties offers over 70 party games, riddles, conundrums, magic tricks, fortunes and party ideas. Readers may order by sending 155 with name and address to The Charleston Gazette Home Institute in New York.
Dorothy Dix argues clothing boosts mood and behavior, citing an orphanage plan to dress problem children in pretty clothes to reform them. She notes mixed results and warns attractiveness may mask deeper issues, while crediting attire with boosting self confidence and discipline in some cases. The Rev. A C Kiser spoke at a fathers and cons banquet at the First Baptist church in St Albans.
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