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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1921
Page
4
The piece argues that about one third of young single women and around half of city women aged 15 to 25 work outside the home, with 25 to 35 year olds also employed. It notes these women juggle wage labor with housework, sewing, laundry, and child care, shaping a double life that commands little credit yet supports independence and voting rights.
Vanity bags for dancing parties described in Dresden ribbon colors to match gowns. A small circular mirror is glued to a cardboard base wrapped in ribbon. The reverse is ribbon covered and scented. The bag stores powder puff handkerchiefs pins and a carmine box with narrow ribbon loops for the arm.
For children a good plan in making frocks is to extend bodices beyond the skirt band to adjust length. A tasty light sandwich uses peeled tomato slices on lettuce with mayonnaise and minced green pepper. A dining room wall may be papered in mottled delft with a deep blue and green forestry border and gilt molding.
A detailed guide to hosting a garden party with sunlit lawns and flower beds, from invitations and timing to attire and furnishings. It covers formal and informal events, weather contingencies, meal ideas, beverages, and a hostess’s duties including greeting guests and arranging seating and music.
A remote group on Leake Znai islands in Abyssinia claims descent from King Solomon. French traveler M H le Roux reports the tribe numbers about 4 000 and speaks a mixed Abyssinian Tigrean language.
The article notes the eye of a child is clear while youth shows slight cloudiness and a fifty to sixty year old eye becomes decidedly opaque. It attributes this gradual opacity to fibrous tissue growth and waste deposits in the eye.
A Vermonter writes Dr. Evans, famed American dentist in Paris, seeking a denture set before his departure. The letter humorously notes the mouth as “three inches across” with a “hummocky” edge and a boastful shape, mis-typed as “boss show” and “forard.”
New Hamburg steamers under construction for South American runs will include a children's playroom and on deck arbors similar to German garden varieties. These features are expected to appeal to passengers, especially in tropical itineraries.
A heavy rain after a drought flushed London sewers as the Thames began to rise. The flood of foul water killed fish by the millions, leaving dead bodies along the riverbanks for miles.
A hotelier recalls how women rise quickly to a wake up call while men delay and protest. He describes a morning routine where a bellboy nicks awake a woman with a brief tap, but men resist a similar wake up until the last moment, often needing water and a stern call to get up.
Statement notes Australia has no orphan asylums and explains children without parental support become wards of the state. It mentions pensions for support and placement in a private family with guard and clothes provided until age fourteen.
Fay Childs and family from Green Castle visited his mother Mrs Mackall on Sunday. Roy Eastham has scarlet fever. Fraternity brothers of Reece Reeds and Harold Coffman visited them at their homes. Mr and Mrs Tom Ball attended a meeting at Palestine Sunday. Ruth Wells of Brick Chapel visited Lily Cully. Teachers from here attended the Teachers Association at Zafanapolis Thursday and Friday. Mrs Cullie Priest visiting her son John Priest and family at Brick Chapel. Hugh Burdett in Greencastle Saturday. Frances Case Olive Hubbard Bernice Darnall Ferol Williams visited Greencastle Saturday afternoon. Pearl Hartman and family spent Sunday in Greencastle. Claude Etcheson and family visited Roy Etcheson Sunday evening.
Florence Eugene Pettit died at home near Clinton Falls on a Sunday. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Garrett on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Joe Staggs and their two sons visited Mr and Mrs Frank Staggs on Sunday. Mrs Emily Boswell returned home after a two week stay with Mrs Noba Sears of Greencastle.
Mrs. Breen Dickerson and her son from Mattoon Illinois visited her parents Mrs. Nettie Newton and Mr. and Mrs. J O Dickerson on Monday while Rev. John McHargue of Kingman spoke with friends during the day.
Miss Louie Williams spent Friday in Greencastle with local residents. Miss Mary Frances Callahan visited Shelbyville with her grandparents. Mrs Curtis Eads was in Greencastle Friday. Freydis Cox of Greencastle and Charles Smith of Wyoming visited W P Murphy family. Mrs Dwight Dickerson and sons from Paris IL stayed with F Armstrong and J O Dickerson. Ernest Dob welcomed a son on Oct 19. Gladys Morlan from Terre Haute visited her parents Elza and Mrs Morlan. Frances Stiles returned to Anderson. C H Epperson and junior son were in Brazil. Emma Girton of Indianapolis visited aunt Isaac Jackman.
The British Medical Journal reports that all idiots or cretins in the Alps will receive treatment at government expense. Tablets of extracts from the thyroid glands of sheep and other domestic animals are to be used in this program.
A Greenland whale is described as weighing as much as eighty eight elephants or four hundred forty bears, illustrating the creature's immense size with comparable animal weights.
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