Dainty Frocks and Auto Coats for Girls This Season
The season offers smart coats for girls and teens with varied styles from short jaunty autumn coats to loose, form flattering fits. Featured are pony coats in brown sinow cloth with braid and velvet collars, tan covert coats for sixteen, three quarter empire blends with green velvet trim, and revived cross stitch embroidery brightening pinafores and frocks. Auto wrap coats and leather favorites emphasize travel ready outerwear with hooded leather coats and a new green auto coat with a cape hood. Textures include mode cloth broadcloth tweeds and rich silks.
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Delft
Mandarin Coats Fashionable for Theater and Opera Wear
Chinese mandarin coats began as evening wraps in this country about two years ago and have gained popularity. Fine embroidery and bright color patterns like golds and blues set them apart, making them unsuitable for ordinary wear or mass imitation.
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Ashmore
Mandarin coats for evening wraps and theater cloaks
The article discusses fabric choices for Mandarin coats and evening wraps, favoring dull antique satins with coordinated lining colors. It notes winter sizing for theater wear, sleeve and neck styles, varying lengths, and price ranges from about fifty dollars upward. It mentions new imports and the durability of older mandarins.
Empire Wraps Dominate Evening Cloak Fashion This Season
The article advises long Empire wraps in black or dark red for theater and streetcar wear, noting gray and satin options. It favors ready made cloth cloaks, squirrel lined fabrics, and fur collar details, with white satin linings and decorative lace ruchings for added charm.
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Empire
Most Ap
Simple Remedies for Emergencies Mothers Should Know
A dated guide lists home treatments for common injuries and ailments. It suggests remedies such as ground starch with oil and cloves for toothache, sorbent cotton in coal oil for ulcers, and hot water with lemon or sugar for stomach upset, noting to use one method consistently and keep bandages saturated after dressing.
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Seitern
Sither
How to Prepare and Care for Hardwood Floors
A historic guide explains shellacking wood floors before finishing with oil or wax to maintain polish and durability. It covers shellac application, cleaning, drying times, and maintenance schedules for hard and soft woods, plus daily care to avoid dulling finishes.
Home Remedies From Ancient Times In Plain Advice
The text lists simple cures for common ailments such as hangnails headaches and bronchial trouble. Advice includes rubbing fingers with sweet oil for hangnails applying hot cloths for headaches and pimples and using baking soda for throat irritation. It also mentions peroxide for cuts and vaseline for dandruff with cautions on application.
Diminutive Cold Remedy Offered in Old Notice
A fragment from a periodical advises using camphor on sugar at the first sign of a cold to break up the illness. The informal domestic tip reflects common home remedies of the era.
Fortunate Missourians Praise King's New Discovery
A Livonia Missouri pharmacist recalls three customers cured of consumption by Dr. King’s New Discovery now in Graysville. He notes one man avoided moving to Arizona after treatment. The medicine is advertised as the surest cough cold throat and lung healer with a trial bottle offered.
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Livonia
T. J. Dwyer
Graysville
Andy
Dreier & Bro
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