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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1915
Page
3
Readable catalog items list men’s department offerings including suits at $2.00, gloves in grey and camel, coats from $8.98 to $12.00, Hatch one button union suits, wool automobile robes with fringe, khaki flannel shirts with collars, and grey outing shirts.
A local advertisement promotes a special sale on ladies hats. Trimmed hats range from about $4.95 to $15.00, with trimmed hats up to $195. Untrimmed shapes are featured from $1.25 to $5.00, including several price points and discounts.
An essay challenges Western fantasies of Easten beauty, noting many Oriental women lack ideal youth-tinged looks. It warns against superficial cosmetic tricks like tugging eyes and offers health tips such as regular sleep, baths, tonics, and breathing exercises to improve vitality and physique with practical advice from readers reaching out for guidance.
The piece describes changing social customs around welcoming newcomers. In the city few calls are paid due to bustle, while in suburbs calls mark social life. Arrival triggers introductions after a month or three weeks, and acceptance or rejection depends on those visits.
The article discusses how established residents react to newcomers, noting that calls are often necessary to acknowledge arrivals. It explains reasons for hesitation such as envy of better circumstances, fear of shallow ties, or the transient nature of temporary neighbors. A system emerges: introductions via mutual friends lead to timely calls, with a customary waiting period before a first visit.
The instructions describe washing the sprays then plunging them in boiling water one by one. Each spray is shaken dry and bunched after all are dry. Finally they are tied in loose bunches and hung in the sun or dried on a board in a moderately hot oven.
Forty one of every hundred women marry between twenty and twenty five. The Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames plans a 20000 Martha Washington memorial window for Washington church at Valley Forge funded by society subscriptions. Today marks the 100th anniversary of Anne C Botta a noted magazine writer born in Vermont who lived in New York where her home hosted many literary celebrities.
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