Quiet Color Tones Highlight Paris Gowns in War Era Show
Paris gowns favor black velvet and restrained color, with subtle draping and shortened hemlines. Models in a blue hall backdrop display gleaming fabrics and exquisite details while echoes of Europe’s war influence the mood and designs.
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Paris
America
Europe
Paul Poiret
Worth Brothers
Nattier
Legion of Honor
Beckoff-David
Doueillet
Georgette
Plan of Home Teaching for Girls Traced in Michigan Model
A Michigan plan for home teaching in high schools divides girls into grades or sections and holds classes at patrons’ homes. Students sew cook dust and serve light lunches under supervision, learn shopping and food selection, and continue summer work with mothers following teacher guidelines. The scheme claims low equipment costs and improved kitchen readiness in homes.
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Michigan
C. L. Chamberlin
Ilnos
Red Lining Hat Rationale Fights Sunstroke Says British Officer
A reader advisory explains red linings in hats can block actinic rays and prevent sunstroke giddiness and headaches. Col F Maude of India reportedly suffered sunstroke until replacing hat lining with red to filter actinic rays, improving health for years.
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Madame Mode
Col
F. Maude
India
Love Letters Made Formal By War Office
The British War Office seeks to curb soldier correspondence home by providing simple tabular forms. Soldiers use lead pencil marks to show health and general condition and indicate illness level. No location details are allowed. only army corps may be named.
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War Office
Practical Home Remedies and Window Tips from a Past Page
A fragmented set of household hints covers sore throat gargles with salt, letting warm air escape through a kitchen window screen, and killing mosquitos by slapping damp panes at dawn. It also mentions carrot lanterns, a tonic using almonds and bonzoin tincture, and general skin care advice.
Cleaning and caring for kitchenware and utensils
Advice on cleaning wooden ware steelware enamel tinware iron and aluminum items using cold water bath brick washing soda or washing powder. Tips include soaking methods scorching residue removal by heating with soda and avoiding long soda exposure on tin and aluminum. Also notes a New Bedford fisherman catching a mackerel with a rubber band near Nomansland likely marked in a hatchery.
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Joseph Dutra
New Bedford
Nomansland
United States
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Ream As
Hershey Laundry
Hershey, Penna
Rtas
Earth
Quetzacoate
Eden
Spain
France
England
América
Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Company
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