Fashioning silhouettes for full figures in wool and satin
Well dressed women with fuller figures confront two design challenges: creating styles that flatter curvier bodies and crafting garments exclusive to stout silhouettes. The illustrated model uses satin underskirt and sleeves, serge overdrapery, and strategic tailoring to minimize hip width, elongate lines, and keep attention on straight silhouettes with pointed overdrape, shaping sleeves, and subtle details like sotache braid and front buttons.
Red Cross Organizes Base Hospitals for Wounded Care
The American Red Cross plans 80 base hospitals with 23 surgeons per unit, 2 dentists, 60 graduates and attendants totaling 250 per base, to care for wounded through field stages to base hospitals. It outlines evacuation from trenches to first aid, field and evacuation tents, and eventual transfer to base and interior hospitals for full recovery, stressing public support and women’s assistance.
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American Red Cross
Nultes
Red Cross
Players With A Past Are Popular This Year
Major league executives favor veterans and players with prior big league time. Bobby Wallace’s return to the Cardinals signals experience valued over raw youth. Other veterans like Ping Bodie, Harry Walter, Charney Deal, Jim Thorpe also resurfaced as 1917 saw many seasoned players rejoin the majors amid a surge of capable youngsters in the bush leagues.
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Bobby Wallace
Cardinals
Lajoie
Garda
Hil
Fimis
Browns
St. Louis
Wallace
Marors
Aries
1017
Ping Bodie
San Francisco
Connie Mack
Harry Walter
Charney
Cubs
Jim Thorpe
Gianta
Reda
When Youth Courts Marriage Against Family Will
A 1917 piece narrates a young couple aged around sixteen and twenty one who fall in love at a ball and strive to wed despite parental objections. It explores family caution, future responsibilities, and the belief that true happiness may hinge on parental support and practical readiness.
Mother's Cook Book Cornmeal Dishes and Waffles Guide
The passage outlines frugal cooking tips for cornmeal dishes, noting that middle class shoppers may obtain better goods locally. It describes cornmeal pancakes and waffles with detailed ingredient steps, including flour, baking powder, salt, boiling water, milk, eggs, sugar, and shortening, plus cooking directions for griddle cakes and waffles.
Less Unemployment Likely in America After War
A report in the American Medical Journal foresees lower unemployment in the United States as a result of the war. It notes reduced immigration from Europe will raise labor demand and wages, but current wages leave many workers, especially women and children, unable to support their families.
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America
Medical Committee On Social Insurances
American Medical Journal
Europe
Serenity in the Thick of Broil: Haig Era War Atmosphere
The fragment reflects on the chief commander's surroundings during wartime, contrasting vivid martial scenes with a modern shift in war conduct. Couriers and horse motions once signaled battle fate, while present conditions imply a quieter, altered military environment.
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Douglas Haig
Indian Pudding and Cornmeal Doughnuts Recipe
A short recipe passage describes making Indian Pudding by simmering milk cornmeal molasses salt and ginger then baking two hours. It also outlines Cornmeal Doughnuts with milk cornmeal sugar shortening wheat flour cinnamon baking powder eggs and frying in hot fat. The directions include heating, mixing, rolling, cutting, and frying steps.
Fortunate men and the fighting dead remembered
Poem praising soldiers who died for their country. Mentions Tyrus Cobb, Hugh Jennings, John McGraw and New York sports figures, urging reverence for fallen soldiers and envisioning lasting peace. Robert Russell closes with gratitude to the Fighting Men who died for the nation.
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Tyrus Cobb
Hugh Jennings
New York
Muggsy
John McGraw
Garfield
Robert Russell
Brother Needs Attention in Kentucky Family Tale
Governor and Mrs Stanley of Kentucky have a lively young family. The elder boy, indulged at times, is told not to ask God for what he covets. He ceases praying for a speckled pony and cart after his mother’s instruction. One night at the executive mansion the child whispers to her, noting that he worries the Lord again about that pony and dog-cart.
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Stanley
Kentucky
House of Stanley
Executive Mansion
Harper’s Magazine
Notable World War I Quote by Marcosson in Everybody's
The passage notes that units have risen to millions, with vast field operations from sea to sea and ammunition usage surpassing older wars, yet true serenity remains until imagination reveals the flames beyond the horizon.
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Isaac PF. Marcosson
Flashlights and the lure of jealousy in daily life
The piece argues jealousy fuels trouble, noting women’ s fairness doesn't excuse a jealous husband. It suggests neglectful husbands anger when other men show interest, and that luck matters less to another man’s success than imagined. It frames hustle and effort as essential to seizing opportunity rather than waiting for the world to worry about you.
Grenades of Many Types in European War
Grenades have become a leading weapon in the European conflict with many types used by each belligerent. Hand grenades range about 25 to 30 yards while mortar launched rounds reach up to 500 yards. A Danish invention features a three pound mortar grenade that bursts and scatters 260 bullets.
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Aix
His Wife's Little Shot
A terse exchange reveals marital tension over finances and pride. A wife taunts her husband about the draft age and the stingy weekly salary that supports her living, highlighting themes of dependency and social expectations.
Sociable orderly chosen from Ft Harrison officers
An orderly from among student officers at Ft Harrison stood daily outside Brig Gen Edwin F Glenn’s office. One day Charles B Shafe of Indianapolis drew the lot and, while awaiting the general, went to fetch the officer. He quipped that the general had done part of his work for him and the adjutant’s orderly urged him to go in and do some of the general’s work.
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Ft. Harrison
Edwin F. Glenn
Charles B. Shafe
Indianapolis
Indianapolis News
Shafe
George
Panama
A Pauper's Grave Poem Sparks Editorial Banter
In the editorial sanctum a party with an unbarbered half presents a poem titled A Paupers Grave. The editor shrugs at the piece noting any pauper has a right to a grave and questions why mirth should halt.
Unable to Blame Him on Romance Purchases
A terse exchange about romance ends with a remark on spending in the Southern States where 07 cotton mollfs are valued at $225,000,000. The line about flowers and love phrases hints at broader economic tensions.
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