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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1920
Page
15
Raymond recalls his 1920s stock boom and a fortune spent on his wife’s diamonds. A theft turns into a farce as paste gems replace real stones, leading to police talk and a mutual confession. The twist: both spouses hid the truth about diamonds and money.
Fashion notes highlight furbelows in June trends with lace ribbon and georgette motifs. Boudoir caps camisoles and caps feature Alencon lace net and ribbon flowers, with matching crown details and chiffon roses.
The article notes how oriental fashion influences include negligees adapted from Japanese and Chinese designs. It highlights a black satin ensemble with gold embroidery, a draped satin silhouette with georgette, and a satin turban with brocade accents. The piece praises comfort, style, and cross cultural appeal.
In attic finds, chenille curtains 80 popular years ago can become rugs. Use old worn Brussels carpet as a foundation, layer curtain fabric on it, turn under edges, sew on the wrong side, and you obtain a soft rug with a rich look from outdated material.
The piece notes fabric hats are in fashion for summer with popular garden styles. It highlights garden hats made from sheer organdies in white and color, reflecting current taste and craft trends.
Eight people including Jacob Wolf his wife and five daughters aged four to thirteen plus farm laborer Jake Hofer were killed at the Wolf home three miles north of Turtle Lake North Dakota. The killings likely occurred in the kitchen by hatchet with bodies hidden in a barn cellar and hayloft. Only an eight month old baby survived. The sheriff has no theory and Wolf was a well liked local farmer.
No treasure found off Parris Island as Bell divers search wreckage for cargo remnants. Marines undertake salvage as local legend about Jean Lafitte persists among nearby Negro residents who doubt the myth remaining seaworthy.
Vancouver Washington police blotter notes a woman from Detroit known as Babe Lewandawski who came to marry Jack Sullivan as part of a mail order courtship. When Sullivan appeared the woman cried and later, after three other suitors arrived who had sent $125 for expenses, she became hysterical and was arrested along with the men, described as a gorilla cage reference in the blotter.
Esther Miller seventeen formed a posse of workers to pursue and capture a man who embraced her in the factory hallway, leading to a weeks long chase and eventual apprehension by colleagues.
A New York woman describes a year long nervous condition improving after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad cites Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts and highlights relief from nervous prostration displacements inflammation and other female ailments.
A brief noting a peculiar plant or ornament that attracts flies in various locations. The item described as a decorative Daisy Fly Ki A placed indiscriminately, drawing flies to random areas.
A simple draft of a local league grows in the suburbs. Two residents discuss a shared plan linking gardeners with chicken keepers as a community agreement. It reads like a light everyday note in a suburban paper.
The advertisement urges using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum to cleanse purify soothe heal and perfume the skin. It claims the soap to clean and purify the skin and the ointment to soothe and heal while the talcum powder provides fragrance. Available for 25 cents everywhere.
Instructions advise a method to retain boot buttons using a strong shoelace. Create holes near the boot top to thread the lace through each button eye, then tie flat knots at both ends to secure the buttons in place.
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