Cape-Back Frock Fashions Highlight Evening Styles
Fashion notes highlight cape-back frocks as a key trend this season with lace and fabric capes across the back and along the sleeves. Navy blue crepe macrocain with embroidery and fine linen tape lacework on dark silk dominate, while georgette and chiffon use plaits instead of tucks for trimming. White silk frocks feature chalk beads and iridescent bubble trims for contrasting effects.
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Meone
Simple Lines for Dresses Highlight Novel Fabrics
A youthful frock emphasizes simplicity while featuring novelty fabrics. The designs appeal to mothers for wearability and to children for attractiveness, with both dresses and fabrics reflecting practical yet stylish choices.
New Dress Trends Highlight Voile Pongee and Gingham Styles
A fashion notice outlines dresses with waist smocks and yokes creating fullness. Imported voile and silk pongee fabrics lead the season with sheer, saturated colors like orange and green. Light tissue gingham and printed gingham designs offer ready turnover options, while water resistant Marvel silk gains popularity for afternoon wear.
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New York
Georgette
Marvel Silk
Pongee
Storing Furs In Cold Chest Or Closet To Preserve
Store furs by whipping and beating to remove dust. If moths appear comb them out with a long toothed comb. Place furs in a warm bright area briefly, then wrap in newspaper and dust with pepper camphor or tobacco. Put in a cedar chest if possible, otherwise a cool dark closet.
Salvation Army Hat Becomes Paris Fashion Note
Paris adopts the Salvation Army hat with a wide side silhouette and narrow back. The style is adapted with a flattened brim and poke bonnet influence, becoming a bright new fashion trend among Parisiennes with bobbed hair.
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Paris
Salvation Army
Salvation Lassie
Parisienne
Salvation Bonnet
Numerous Clever Linen Frocks For Children And Girls
Linen frocks for children and young girls feature hand embroidered blocks in greens yellows and reds. One twelve to fourteen year old dress shows a green and henna color scheme with embroidery on sleeves and skirt. A straight amock like style emphasizes handmade quality and simple elegance for home dressmakers.
White Millinery Sets Fashion Tone for Summer
A brief fashion note highlights white millinery as a prelude to the summer season. Benson is mentioned in relation to the evolving style, signaling a vogue shift toward light hats and airy accessories.
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Benson
Egg Orangeade and Milk Shakes Featured in Summer Drinks
The article outlines summer drink preparation including Egg Orangeade with orange and lemon juice, egg, sugar, and crushed ice. It also describes Almond Milk Shake and Chocolate Egg Milk Shake with milk, egg, sugar, and flavorings, served in attractive glassware to enhance appeal.
Foods for hot weather and summer meal ideas
Summer nutrition guidance notes nature provides seasonal foods and cautions against cold drinks. It recommends hot soups to aid digestion, reduced meat, and dishes like Virginia Spiced Beef and Ham Mousse. Suggestions include stuffed tomatoes, cold desserts, and chilled fruit for luncheons or dinners.
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Virginia
Food Hunt in Starving Petrograd Described by Copenhagen Correspondent
A Copenhagen reporter recounts daily life in famine struck Petrograd. A Bolshevist boy guides him through scarce meals, from pea soup and porridge to potatoes, rye bread, and herring at a hidden cellar eatery run by Red soldiers and civilians.
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Tfe
Petrograd
Sadovaya
Nevsky Prospect
Kronvesk
Red Army
Methanol Named as Wood Alcohol by Science Groups
The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry endorses methanol as the proper name for wood alcohol. A report from the American Chemical Society committee on occupational diseases notes progress toward wider use, while a few joking chemists once proposed Maud or methyl alcohol.
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Maud
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Committee On Occupational Diseases
American Chemical Society
Mr. Opper
Milk-Fed Children Program Expands in New York State
Milk feeding for undernourished school children begins in 40 cities and 28 villages in New York. Some schools provide two daily servings at midmorning and midafternoon, while others offer only a midmorning service.
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New York State
X Rays Fatal to Dogs in Abdomen Experiments
University of California medical school researchers S L Warren and G H Whipple report that roentgen rays over the abdomen prove fatal in many dog experiments, while thoracic exposure shows no ill effects. Details appear in the Journal Experimental Medicine.
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University of California Medical School
S. L. Warren
G. H. Whipple
Experimental Medicine
Greatness and Lowliness in Pascal’s Insight
A compact reflection on human nature notes that recognizing both greatness and lowliness is essential. Neither exaggerates nor ignores one quality, for awareness of both yields profit and wisdom.
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Pascal
Domestic Medley Requests Grocer’s Fresh Produce
A family scene described by a Boston Transcript note captures a mother on the phone ordering groceries. She demands a pound of fresh butter and two dozen fresh eggs, scolding a baby and warning of a spanking.
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Boston Transcript
From Girlhood to Womanhood in Lydia Pinkham Ad
Emporia Kansas testimonial from Eva Aldrich describes severe menstrual pains and weakness eased by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad promotes the medicine as a woman’s remedy prepared from medicinal plants and suitable for girls and women with common female troubles.
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Kansas
Lydia E. Pinkham
Eva Aldrich
Union St
Unclear text advertising fragment from era
Fragmentary note references visiting triggers at a residence entrance and a claim about Red Cross Ball Blue as the finest product. Language suggests an old advertisement tone with cautious generalities and odd phrasing about imposition and slowance.
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Red Cross Ball
Eyvery
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