Wool Hosiery and Dirigible Glow Dominate Winter Fashion
A fashion and society sketch notes censoriousness over stockings and new Gothic Invisibles to cover ankles. It reports on the Shenandoah dirigible sighting over Broadway and its eerie, shadowy presence. Then it notes shoe color trends shifting to muted browns and greys with straps as a constant rule, and praises Mary Rolaynd and Clifton Webb in a comedy Meet the Wife at the Lynn Starling theatre for its lively satire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gotham
Seine
Shenandoah
Broadway
Mary Rolayid
Lynn Starling
Mary
Clifton
Webb
Deligh
Charles, Dalton
Earnest Lawford
Candid Reflections on Ambition and Adversity
A string of aphoristic observations on ambition fear love pride and social behavior. The author muses on honesty fronting adversity gender roles and the ironies of effort success and misunderstanding with pithy maxims and wry humor.
Somerville News Items Spot Local Visits and Illness
Community notices report missing relatives in route travel and hospital cases. Rev E H Roy illness shows improvement while Mrs Rosella McCullough remains hospitalized. Forest Echols welcomed a son. Paul Cain and John Smith visited the W S Watkins household. Pattie Luik travels to Albany to assist a sick sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pattie Luik
Albany
Rosella McCullough
Pattie Lyle
Otto Carrol
Persian Rug Color Story Stirs Chemists’ Curiosity
The text notes attempts to reproduce the Sand reds in Persian rugs using vegetable dyes and chemical chromatics developed in American and European labs. It highlights long standing puzzles faced by scholars over centuries regarding these colors.
Repression of Free Will Sparks Debate on Liberty
A fragment questions whether ads to personal liberty fail when a person is free to act foolishly. It asks if repressing free will stifles initiative and what that means for autonomy.
Writer’s tribute to Count Cagliostro and the impostors
Thomas Carlyle described Joseph Belsamio known as Count Cagliostro as a quack and scoundrel. After marriages in Europe he used multiple titles and claimed to restore ancient Egyptian Free Masonry. In London he boasted manuscripts and was later imprisoned for life after the Inquisition seized his works in Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Belsamio
Cagliostro
Thomas Carlyle
Lorengg Feliciana
Alessandro
Seraphing Ui Ostro
London
Strasburg
Rome
Holy’ Inquisition
Detroit News
Caroline Sings Through the Hall Drainage Scene
In a cluttered drawing room Caroline of the Caro family sings under pressure while her mother waits. The milkman, called to settle accounts, remarks he is used to the clamor of milk cans and continues his work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tick
Caroline
T Family
Aran
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Lee & Carhart
Lot No
Howard and Foster
Times Square
Russia
Silk’ Sox
Chalmers
Standard
Uni Baits Union
Rte
Ala
Greb
Wilson
Wilsop
Polo Grounds
New York City
M Square Garden
Bain
Cahaba
Asgue
Albany Brokerage Co
E. Taylor, Mgr. O. L. & N. Belt Line
Tennessee Valley Bank
State Banking Department
Poeta Resources
Albany-Decatur
R. E. Coffee
Somerville’ News
Bil Kinnebrew
Rev. and
Myss W.E. Wright
R. L. Henderson
W.S. Watkins
Forest Echols
Moss Black
Forrest Echols
Paul Cain
A. M. Lunnaway
Decatur
John Smith
W. S. Watkins
E. H. Roy
The
Benevolent Hospital
Count
Sanitary
Red Star Club
Red Star
Morgan Furniture Co
Albany and Decatur
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