Silk Hose Offer Promises Heavy Silk Comfort
A sales notice touts silk hose at 50e praising heavy silk, high spliced heels, and double feet for durability. Readers are urged to try a pair.
12 Aug 1916
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1916
Page
1
A sales notice touts silk hose at 50e praising heavy silk, high spliced heels, and double feet for durability. Readers are urged to try a pair.
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Don’t Let The Hot Weather get you. A local retailer promotes a cool clothing collection priced to suit shoppers. The message urges wearing breathable outfits to stay comfortable during heat waves.
The catalog highlights a season's stylish white fabrics and garments. It advertises a range of white dresses waists and skirts, with widths 25 and 36 and 40 inches, plus some organdy in 75e. Prices emphasize affordability.
Advertises Eclipse Soisette Shirts priced at $1.00 each. Describes them as suitable for hot weather and emphasizes comfort for warm days.
A quirky item notes a race between a lady’s yacht and a fishing smack for love, with both vessels credited as winners. The brief, playful reference cites Prank A. Munsey Co and dates from a period newspaper item with light entertainment tone.
In a fogbound encounter off Hampton Roads two Gloucester captains, Gale of the Daybreak and Sponson of the White Sea, spar over pride and a past flame. After a heated quarrel they part company, later chase each other into a hurricane up the Massachusetts coast. The White Sea loses a mast and sustains damage while the Daybreak presses toward Gloucester. both crews brace for a rough crossing as a storm rages off Cape Cod. A Gloucester woman and her daughter arrive later, easing tensions aboard Sponson’s vessel.
A letter to Robert Grimshaw of New York University presents Muldoon’s advice that people should lift the crown of the head to improve posture and mindset. The guidance urges backing against a wall to feel straight alignment, noting benefits in breathing, elasticity, and confidence. It emphasizes immediate physical and mental uplift.
London Stray Stories recount a sharp aside on persuasion. A speaker derides Tfo as unable to sway anyone, claiming he could not persuade a woman she is pretty. The quip reflects playful social humor in the column.
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