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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1922
Page
7
A fashion-forward piece details the season's wrap coats and dinner gowns. It highlights fur, velvet, and deep-pile fabrics, with browns like Mohawk red-brown and velvet gowns featuring beading, fur trims, and silver embroidery for club or restaurant events.
A collection of vintage kitchen lore offers recipes for raised doughnuts made with bread sponge, Norwegian meatballs in broth, bread griddle cakes, fatlman bakela, and cabbage soups. Also includes lifestyle reflections on finding romance in the near and familiar, plus quirky notes on magnets and a dialect quip from the Atlanta Constitution.
A note describes bobbed hair styling with a small comb as its latest accessory. The item highlights practicality and fashion in short hair trends.
The United States Bureau of Public Roads reports progress toward a national federal-aid highway system. About 18,299 miles completed with 14,912 under construction and 60 percent total. federal-aid projects now total 40,338 miles across all stages. Massive project intake continues with many new plans and lettings during June to August.
Illinois state highway division tests bureau has developed an apparatus to gauge pavement stress from truck wheel impact. A three inch diameter oil cylinder loads a piston against a coil spring, connected to levers and a stylus that traces on rolling paper. Paper motion links to truck speed via transmission connection.
Speakers at an Illinois Automobile club meeting stressed the state’s start toward good roads and outlined needs for highway improvement. Henry Paulman credited with backing an 80 million bond issue praised William Busse, urged motorists to keep up the fight, and noted the cost and effort required to build better roads.
Advice notes that clean nests improve egg value, but soiled eggs rarely look clean after cleaning. It recommends keeping hens busy by scratching for grain and allowing dust baths, or using lice powder if dust baths aren’t possible.
A collection of period advertisement snippets urges consumers to insist on Bayer aspirin with proper packaging and warns against counterfeit products. It promotes Castoria as trusted for infants and notes a humorous roadside anecdote about travel mishaps and a village life talk by Major Trotter-Blount, all in a vintage newspaper flavor.
A scattered newspaper clippings style item noting a medicinal ad promising cures, a lawyer joke, an antiseptic talcum powder promotion, a political donation quip, and a line about speech and silence. The readable fragments hint at common 1920s ad copy and satirical snippets without a single coherent event.
William Magee of 8840 Lafayette Ave in St. Louis reports Tanlac restored his health after a two year illness that left him weak with bladder problems poor appetite and sleepless nights. He says his appetite improved he sleeps well and his energy returned. The Tanlac ad notes it is sold by all good druggists.
New York correspondence notes Greenwich Village residents favor goats as pets over dogs. The girls with smocks and bobbed hair talk of goats as easier to care for, useful for garbage disposal, and good companions in small studio spaces along the Sixth and Ninth Avenue elevated lines near Fourteenth Street.
The Court of Customs Appeals faces a heavy winter docket of intricate tariff cases. Questions include whether wheat screenings are taxed 10 percent or untaxed as wheat, and how 23,000 pounds of goats beards moved through the Panama Canal will be classified. The dispute highlights the oddities and dollars at stake in international trade.
The Boston Evening Transcript quotes a playful exchange about wedding invites and regrets. A cynical remark notes the groom’s bad character and social avoidance since being broke, reflecting satirical dialogue on propriety and reputation.
Dr A K Fisher of the United States biological survey urges aggressive rodent control highlighting damage by smaller rodents on stock ranges, calling for closer federal state cooperation to maximize funding. He notes exterminating prairie dogs could boost cattle and sheep forage. A political quip from Senator Sorghum predicts a landslide for a favorite son, followed by a lighthearted exchange on women's sphere and marriage.
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