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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1921
Page
4
In a playroom a line of dolls gather around a living Old Fashioned Little Girl who laments a missing Nina and Lydia as daylight breaks the magic. The mother discovers Aunt Abbie fallen from the frame and vows to replace the glass and restore the picture.
Reatha Watson recounts a midnight scene where toys fear a frame could trap an old-fashioned little girl. The gold French Doll voices preference for the old games over new, as the room awaits the magic hour.
A fragmented OCR snippet mentions a dark room and leisure activity, with unclear context and missing identifiers. The readable bits suggest a casual, private setting or planning of a pastimes moment, but specific people, places, or events cannot be determined.
Mary Marshall Duffee discusses proper manners aboard ocean liners for travelers, war workers, and expeditionary personnel. It covers using ship stationery, greeting fellow passengers, beginning conversations, and how to handle a desire for solitude without seeming unfriendly. The piece stresses courteous exchanges and suggests scenarios for social interaction at table or on deck.
A garbled OCR fragment notes a discussion about demureness and maiden propriety, mentioning widespread use in New England song and story and references to America Rome and Priselin with unclear context and incomplete names.
A man recounts a night out that ended with excessive drinking, a near beer the crowd misjudged, and a subsequent job loss. He describes waking confused, misplacing money, and facing an unhelpful boss after the clock showed an impossible time.
Christmas shop highlights dainty accessories for women with dainty neckwear and embroidered swiss collars. Includes simple craft patterns for a black kitty and an elephant using silk stocking tops, plush fabrics, and buttons, detailing body shaping eyes tusks and decorations.
Each year brings new decorative items to replace old ones. Two ribbon girdles are shown as charming gifts. One uses narrow satin ribbon with a tinsel border and ribbon flowers. The other is a wide two toned satin sash with loops and a back knot.
A fragment describes a handmade clown doll made from discarded ribbed underwear or stockings. The head uses white or pink ribbed stocking, with a painted face in black and red. The rear features two colors, including cotton and white.
A guide shows using colored sealing wax to paint a book for telephone numbers. It uses black ollcloth and white paper with holes for silk cord binding. A powder box and rouge box are lacquered black and decorated with wax to resemble ribbon and flowers.
A playful item for children features a skipping rope with clothespin handles painted deep pink with black faces hair neckties and buttons. The apparatus is assembled at home using clothespins as handles to create a treasured childhood toy.
Handy gifts for men of any age include a stylish rack with a crotonne covered oval board and a snail nickel towel rack. It is designed to be mounted on a front panel and suspended by a cord at the back for easy reach.
Capper's Weekly notes the Royal Marriage Act of 1772 allows the Prince of Wales to marry without the king’s consent if over twenty five but requires twelve months notice to the Privy Council and parliamentary approval. without it the marriage is void though church recognition and legitimacy of children remain.
An advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as safe for colds and various pains with the Bayer Cross on the package. A Boston Transcript item then features a short comic: a boy arrives home covered in mud, crying because he fears punishment, not the mess.
Ad claims Cole's Carbellanive quickly mellayvex and heals burning itching and torturing diseases. It supposedly stops the fata of burns and heals without gouars. Promises 300 and 600 dosages and directs buyers to contact The J. W. Cole Co. in Rockford Illinois for a package.
A clipped note references heredity in sleeplessness and recalls a father who served as a night editor on a Greenland newspaper, with a wry Beaton Transcript style. The fragment hints at habits and aging, suggesting echoes of family work life.
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