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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1920
Page
14
Designers embrace accordion plaits across fabrics from silk to wool in capes, suits, and skirts. Horizontal stripes with side plaits and novel pockets redefine lines, while a silk plaid skirt features close fitting accordion pleating and a silk girdle with decorative ball ends.
Designers embrace tricolette and silk fiber for smocks and blouses with close-fitting jackets and sleeveless fronts. Gray and vivid florals lead among many colors. satin bound necks and tassel cords finish waistlines. Georgette smocks with all-over embroidery appear for dressier afternoon and dinner wear.
The text advises avoiding shabby gloves and stresses proper care to extend their life. It warns that poor-quality gloves wear out quickly, and even the best gloves need protection from heat moisture, night wear, and wet weather which can damage leather and fabrics.
Unique trimming for children's frocks uses striped material divided by a chain stitch of red worsted. A band of this trimming can be worn around the sleeves and down each side of the frock both at the back and front.
A large poke bonnet crafted entirely from wool crochet features wired structure and crocheted flowers in the same material, presenting a novel recreation wear millinery. This distinctive headpiece combines handmade texture with durable design, aiming to capture attention in fashion circles.
No system defeats the bank says Monte Carlo players. A Paris dealer recalls an old lady who allegedly won 400000 francs by spotting follow the wheel patterns. Officials sought her secret, but Blanc paid 70000 francs for it, revealing the wheel misalignment caused by heat making it stick at a fixed point.
A mosque car built in Constantinople was added to a 90 passenger railway coach set used on long distance American trains. It features a miniature minaret, Koranic inscriptions, and a compass pointing toward Mecca enabling pilgrims to pray during the Damascus to Mecca journey.
Electric detection methods locate crude oil without drilling using a series of batteries. Negative terminals drop into dry holes while a land wire contacts the surface, with oil’s higher resistance causing reduced deflection in a sensitive circuit.
West Coast Lumbermen's Association showcases twenty products from fir spruce and hemlock pulp at a Portland exhibit prepared with Wisconsin forest products lab. Items include silk cloth stockings sun powder absorbent paper bagging rope and twine linoleum shingles reed fiber rug yarn phonograph records and more.
Mrs Reginuld UW Johnson, president of L Espoir France Americon club in Pittsburgh, cites 12000 of about 50000 French war brides returning to France due to incompatibility of American and French customs. The group aims to aid displaced brides and broaden Prenmeh girls' interests, following Mile Odette de Bouglon's visit.
Slow motion footage of a heavily loaded motor truck climbing a curb dropping from an elevation and crossing railroad tracks is shown to a tire company in a scientific study. The photographs aim to reveal how heavy impacts affect wheelways trucks loads and tires and mark a first use of this photography by the company.
A fragmentary exchange on a country road shows a motorist asking for the correct time and a farmer replying with a practical answer about timekeeping. A later line implies mothers’ view on love and matchmaking, reflecting social attitudes in a small community.
Chauncey M Depew praises humor as a diplomat and likens Ring Lardner to a social fixer at a Philadelphia club. Lardner teases a man about staying out, claiming his wife allowed it after Gardner says the husband is roaring drunk and should be brought home or kept there.
A garbled OCR fragment references a discharge and a former employer. The readable portion hints at questions of wealth and personal loss, but contains no clear names, dates, or events to anchor a definitive news item. The piece resembles a stray quote rather than a complete report.
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