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Newspaper

Charleston Gazette

Location

Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1949

Page

5

Dear Lois Leeds Beauty Advice Column Features Style Tips

Lois Leeds answers readers on facial shapes necklines and makeup choices. Topics include altering necklines with fabric folds, matching makeup to tan, browns for hair and accessories, dates, and hair removal products. The column promotes a How to Select and Use Bases For Makeup leaflet via mail requests.

Aartiers Lois Leds Lois Leeds Molly Lois Leetis Ellie Lig Leeds Grace Janice Lois Charleston Gazette

Veteran receives model medal at UC ROTC parade

Roy L. Lane of Charleston West Virginia was presented with a model medal by the Disabled American Veterans during the University of Cincinnati ROTC annual commencement week parade. Lane resides at 784 Randolph Street in Charleston.

Cincinnati Roy L. Lane Charleston W. Va University of Cincinnati Lane Randolph St

Avocado Bologna Sandwiches With Watercress Salad

Recipe notes a Sunday Cooking segment offering avocado bologna sandwiches with a watercress and cucumber salad and a chocolate cream cake beverage. Ingredients include avocado bologna pickle mayonnaise mustard bread salt pepper. Method details slicing avocado mixing bologna and dressing then layering on buttered bread and serving. Makes four sandwiches.

Mrs Mesta Is Hospitable She Is Noted For Hospitality

The Gazette notes Mrs Mesta’s role in Washington society as a hostess who has fed both Republicans and Democrats with lavish hospitality. It mentions her confidence she will avoid Senate trouble despite some appointments facing confirmation delays. The piece also highlights her influence around postwar social diplomacy and the Taft-Hartley era.

Lina Washington Washington

Voice of Broadway continues with zanyNew Yorker vibe

A fragmentary gossip page notes a lively Broadway scene with a lemon car on Fifth Avenue and a Paramount organist sunburn incident. Martha Stewart and George O Hanlon plan an August wedding, a 1940 Gazalis notice mentions a Technicolor film The God of Creation at Clifftop Union Church tonight.

Broadway Hucks George Wright Paramount Atlantic Beach Martha Stewart George O'Hanlon Palls God of Creation Union Church Clifttop

Needlework pattern promises rich hue effects for garments

Sense Where Real Treasures presents rich hued flowers for embroidering towels scarves and pillow slips. The Laura Wheeler improved pattern offers simple needlework with chart photos and concise directions. Send 20 cents for this pattern to Charleston Gazette Needlecraft Dept PF in Brooklyn with name address and zone.

Trousseau Fattern Laura Wheeler Charleston Gazette Flatbush Station Brooklyn

Red Cross Executive Dies at Clarksburg

CLARKSBURG June 24 Mrs Lola M Heavener longtime executive secretary of the Harrison County Red Cross chapter dies at Clarksburg after a long illness She had served in Relief work throughout the county and was active in the chapter for many years

Red Cross Clarksburg Lola M. Heavener, Li Harrison County Fairmont State College Red Cross Post James Heavlen

Do It Yourself Home Tips From a Vintage Note

A garbled advice piece covers painting copper with better adhesion, attic ventilation, and varnish technique across grain. It also mentions crack filling with a waterproof cement, a wall register design for warm air, and a note on a 14 year old death at a local home, plus a Red Cross reference and a war loss.

Record Travel Toll Up In 1949 First Quarter

The National Safety Council reports a rising traffic death toll with 8,870 fatalities in the first four months, 3 percent above last year despite a lower rate per 100 million miles. Travel mileage rose 6 percent in early 1949, prompting caution for a busy vacation period.

National Safety Council

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