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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
7
War influences shift toward home made gowns as American women favor practical designs over Parisian couture. Ellen Adair notes the French designers plead for American patronage while New styles reflect wartime realities. Castled frocks provoke playful reflections on masculine gaze and fashion’s wartime mood.
The article notes rising costs in vanity items for women including rouge face powders and beauty spots. It cites a 40 percent import duty on powder puffs, shifts to powder rags, and debates whether American production might flood the market to ease prices.
A new luncheon set features a round center piece and oval doilies in white linen with Madeira eyelet work. Edges are elaborately buttonholed and the doilies are shaped as rounded triangles to fit round or oblong tables, protecting polished surfaces.
A quirky instructional note describes making a simple button bag with a square bottom and drawstring. Use natural linen with four outside pockets bound in colored tape, and fasten pocket flaps with the intended button. Embroider sunbonnet babies or painted button faces as decoration.
The Yonkers Statesman notes reports that instruments in New Haven Connecticut recorded earth tremors. The item suggests informing Professor Patt to monitor recent activity.
Miss Mira Lloyd Dock delivered a landmark talk on the city beautiful at the old Board of Trade hall on December 20. Her lantern slide presentation inspired a surge of civic activity and the birth of the Harrisburg Plan leading to millions in improvements and a revived civic spirit.
A pretty young woman visits a Lebanon music shop and asks the clerk if he has the song Kissed Me in the Moonlight. The new clerk jokes that it must have been the man at the other counter, noting he has only been there a week.
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