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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1914
Page
5
A scanned clipping offers household tips and recipes including vinegar to preserve materials and keep peeled sweet potatoes from darkening, lavender scented paper, and several recipes: Milk Griddie Cakes, Imperial Muffins, Boiled Macaroni, and Cider Jelly with gelatin, sugar, lemons, and cider.
In a San Francisco parlor a group of business women discuss choices between pleasure work and steady income. A lace buyer extols independence and rewards of self employment while another notes the benefits of supporting family without an overbearing employer. The conversation shifts to home life and the personal satisfaction found in balancing work and family duties.
The item reviews several theater offerings and film features at local venues including GRAND for a family friendly comedy and LYRIC with a modern female themed piece. Other listings cover EMPRESS ROCKS GAYRTY and COLUMBIA CORRYCTITE posters plus Corryville and Nordland Plaza attractions. The brief includes a statistic note: in Persia carpet weaving is women led. households buy $225 million in food annually. a woman can jump 62 percent of a man’s distance.
A compilation of letters to Mrs Thompson asks about stopping temper, skin care and powder use, expressing love by letter, dating guidance for a 16 year old, and copyright procedures. Readers seek practical tips from a period advice column.
Mrs. John Tenney hosted a bridge party with many guests including Mrs. J. W. Iredell in Avondale. The Mase Lovers' Club met at Covington with Miss Frances Jorchheimer and others performing. Miss Dorothy Werner married Edward Evans in a ceremony officiated by Rev. Flinchbaugh. Attendees traveled from Rochester to Columbus and Chicago. A musical at Mrs. Samuel Ach’s Avondale home featured several guests. The Akron Association of Collegiate Alumnae plans a Monday event at Mechanics Institute with a home economics talk by Miss Gerrich.
New York report on a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall featuring Alma Gluck and Leo Poll Stokowski, former Cincinnati Symphony director, conducting Brahms and Strauss. The program highlighted Stokowski's three selections and praised his handling of classical, modern, and tonal extremes.
The article notes frills or founces staying popular though lighter and sparer. It describes tulle and embroidery frocings weighted by ermined bands or fur, naming corkscrew gowns with bellied hips and festooned hems bordered by satin.
A fragment describes parsnips scraped and soaked, boiled until tender, then cut into quarter inch slices for fritters. It notes batter and deep fat frying and mentions mashing with fennel pepper and butter, or making cakes, rolling in flour and sauteing.
Benton recalls a past romance with a southern actress as they walk through Central Park at night. He confronts a mix of longing and duty while sharing his journey from Mobile to New York and the burden of their intertwined lives. Her plea centers on freeing him from danger and hardship, though she accepts social exile.
Illinois women with voting rights are entering city politics as two Chicago women announce council bids. Mrs George Bass, president of the Chicago Women’s Club, seeks alderman in the First Ward opposing long time figures including Michael Kehn and John Caughlin. Mrs Samuel Abrahams, widow and former Twentieth Ward alderman widow, also runs against her brother in law Mortie Abrahams in a tough ward backing clean politics.
Fragmentary OCR describes jewelry and gowns with pearls and furs. Mentions ornate clasps, strings in hair, and decorative ensembles across bodice and shoulders.
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