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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1938
Page
7
Hollywood beauty column answers teen readers on face shaping through hairstyle and exercise. It also cautions a 17-year-old speaker to consult a doctor before starting any weight-reduction diet.
A mixed clipping offers weight loss tips and lifestyle notes. It urges dietary changes with an example meals plan for breakfast lunch and dinner, mentions tap dancing as exercise, and includes beauty and color guidance for readers. Also notes medical caution on warts and invites readers to request Lois Leeds beauty guidance.
Pattern 460 is available in girls and junior sizes 8 10 12 and 14. Instructions are easy to follow and the dress can be made as a daytime skirt or ankle-length for parties. Send 15 cents for the pattern and note size name address and style number.
A dated kitchen note lists breakfast items and a long dish sequence with many misspellings. It includes Honeydew, bacon, chicken, dressings, tropical spices, desserts, and several baking and custard steps. The text interweaves meal ideas with incomplete measurements and unclear ingredient names from a home cooking guide.
The instructions describe finishing batter, half filling two lined pans, baking twenty five minutes in a moderate oven, cooling, and covering with white or spiced frosting. The steps emphasize prepared pans, proper bake time, and frosting choice.
Washington reports May saw a record 7,520,458 jobseekers on file with the federal employment service. New applications totaled 1,181,126 that month, while 236,054 workers were placed, including 2,568 in West Virginia.
Seventeen suits in chancery have been filed in circuit court by Pfaff and Smith Builders Supply Company to collect paying liens held against Dunbar residents. Defendants include Jose Augustin and others, E. D. Dorsey and others, Angelo Galzerina and others, Paul M. Matsos and others, W. L. Price and others, L. E. Reddington and others, Miltos Tossos and others, E. G. Wickham and others, James A. Carr and others, Edward Gebhart and others, Jose Gonzalez Huerta, Juddie Fisher Johnson and others, Kanawha Valley Improvement Company, Luigi Lemma and others, R. A. Potfenbarger and others, FP. & E. Investment Company, and Joan A. Fraub and others.
A spirited routine invites readers to tell fortunes for romance and social life. Characters Dora Jim Tom Polly Ted Fran and Fran engage with card meanings and symbols to hint at love wealth and status in a playful fortune telling vignette.
An advertisement requests Bend 15 cents for a booklet titled Let Me Tell Your Fortune. It provides a New York address and asks for the applicant’s name, address, and title of the book.
Anne Corrigan of New York School of Commerce says top prospects for this year’s graduating women lie in secretarial work yet expanding opportunities demand broader training. A successful secretary needs business admin and accounting knowledge, shorthand and typing, plus report and speech prep, personal finances and tax skills, and a polished personality. Mrs. Lela Rogers, after years as manager, confidante and advisor to Ginger Rogers, begins her own playwriting career and urges women to have a second interest ready.
Readers are invited to submit questions as Dr Logan Clendening discusses appendicitis myths about grape seeds olive oil and heating the appendix. He notes seeds are rare in the appendix and emphasizes rest over surgery when possible and that one attack predisposes to another. Editorial note lists pamphlets offered by Clendening via mail.
Senators Byron Randolph of Clarksburg and Clayton Haines of Charles Town filed certificates of announcement with the secretary of state for the Democratic renomination. Haines becomes the fourth candidate in the 16th district, while Randolph is the first from the district to file.
Sally revels in love as Andy and she prepare for marriage with high spirits at the Hamiltons party. Gram counsels Clay Hepburn that Evelyn Fortner loves him and warns him of a likely misstep, while Sally and Andy’s tension intensifies on the eve of the ceremony.
Gram plots a rescue as Clay and Evelyn confront a looming marriage while Elmer Smoot and a wary Lot scramble to intervene. Tensions rise over whether Evelyn can be happy with Andy and if a last minute intervention can avert a family scandal.
Albert Payson Terhune argues dogs may see colors, citing German experiments where dogs consistently match red flags to red tags. He notes twenty similar dogs passed tests, challenging the idea that dogs are color blind and invites verification of the claim.
Parkersburg June 1 The eighty three year old former governor Albert B White rose from his sick bed to greet about 400 members of the National Editorial Association on their six day scenic tour of the State He recalled presiding at the organization s third convention in San Antonio and said newspapers have given more to the country than any other people Erwin Funk of Rogers Ark spoke of the tribute given to the former president The editors enjoyed four hours of entertainment including a horse show vaudeville Skits at Col W H Bickel s estate a tour of the city and a visit to Blennerhassat Island W E Ingersoll president of the Parkersburg board of commerce welcomed them and John W Fischer editor of the Parkersburg Sentinel spoke on the program The editors were guests of the Wheeling chamber of commerce tonight with H C Ogden publisher and D A Burt broker on the speaking program
Dr S E Weber assistant superintendent of Pittsburgh schools attacked vesting teacher employment authority in boards of education at Marshall College. He urged employment decisions rest with the superintendent based on teaching qualifications. W W Trenk urged college training for teachers as essential for pupil inspiration and character building. Several hundred teachers and school executives from southern counties attended the conference.
Auditor Edgar B. Sims said yesterday he approved a requisition by Supt W W Trent for secondary school aid for 14 counties authorized more than two weeks ago by the board of public works. Sims held Trent's requisition for about $18,000 until the second requisition arrives while the board already authorized $50,185 to 27 counties for payment.
Fragmentary note hints at will terms involving Andy and a marriage on his birthday. The text shows a curious catch and a narrator’s aside as it teases a continuation. Copyright language from 1938 appears, with unclear full context.
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