15 Sep 1936
Page 14
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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1936
Page
14
Dear readers seek beauty tips on hair fashion and weight. Lois Leeds answers questions from teenagers and adults about hairstyles, facial features, dieting, and safe exercise. The column promotes a reducing leaflet and physical fitness guidance with requests for a stamped self addressed envelope.
Pattern 4170 and a pattern bank advertisement from The Charleston Gazette offer Anne Adams dresses for young children and a guide to stylish fall fashions. The page also contains a long Dorothy Dix advice column about a mother living with a widowed sister, urging the son to find his mother work to stay active and happy.
A reflection on manners, tact, and social conduct urging balanced courtesy. It compares moisture and vinegar as metaphor for speech, arguing that graciousness in tone and restraint preserves harmony, while honesty without tact harms relations and social peace. It stresses kindness to those aided by considerate conduct and the value of polite restraint in expression.
Mrs John W Davis wife of the West Virginia State College president will speak to the First Methodist Woman's Home Missionary Society at 2 30 this afternoon. The event will be at the church on Quarrier and Morris streets with Mrs John Foster's gratia as hostesses and Mrs D E Smith directing music.
Hollywood gossip from 1955 notes talent hunts for leading men in New York and Hollywood. Names like Charles Quigley, George Brent, Ian, and Hal Houston surface as studios seek stars for Lady From Nowhere, Untertude, and The Desert Song. John Stabt signs a multi film deal with Universal, Irene Dunar joins Madame Curie, and a trans Atlantic project with Darcy Zanuck brings Peter Lorre and Brian Donlevy into focus while Hal St Clair marks a directing comeback.
A soap opera style sequence follows Mallard, Pamella, Zelda, and Ellen amid romantic entanglements and blackmail schemes. Mallard faces career pressure and personal doubts while Pamela tries to move closer, yet remains wary of his commitment. Letters, parties, and film industry chatter frame a tense, melodramatic panorama.
Laura Wheeler promotes a simple knitted frock for tots in Pattern 1301 with stockinette stitches and color contrast rows. The guide lists sizes four six and four tall, materials and stitch requirements, plus embroideries in a chain effect. Patten submissions to The Charleston Gazette Needlecraft Dept New York NY with pattern number and return address.
A guide explains crafting slip covers for a davenport or chair using bright linen or semi glazed cloth. It covers pinning wrong sides, cutting away excess, leaving 1.5 inch seams, tuck-ins, basting, and stitching Moss fringe trimming, with tips on darts plackets and material estimates.
A fragmented plea asks 15 cents for a booklet titled Make ing Bile Covers Successfully to The Charleston Gazeiter at Home Institute New York. The sender requests to write their name and provide address and booklet title.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Mal criticizing Levinsky and a conspiratorial plan. References to a "co" and "nobody's dream" hint at mistrust and attempted manipulation. The garbled English suggests difficulty in conveying the idea, with the exchange noting that Levinsky still manages to push through with his schemes. Continued tomorrow.
A defender of vaccination argues against anti vax critics citing liberty limits and smallpox history. He notes vaccination’s 150 year record reduced fear, urges continued immunization, and points differences in urban and rural uptake with current smallpox rates. He emphasizes vaccinating children at six months.
The will of C. E. Woodrum was admitted to probate and filed in the county clerk's office. It distributes the estate to widow Gertrude Woodrum, three sons E. ., T. D., and E. H. Woodrum, and three daughters Rosalie Woodrum Graham, Teressa, and Roberta Woodrum. Co trustees named include E. . Woodrum and T. Dana Woodrum of the Charleston National Bank.
The Rev G W Stewart of Morris Harvey college will conduct the first of a series of standard Bible classes tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock at the First M E church South. The classes are sponsored by the Women s Missionary society and will continue for three weeks.
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