Masterpieces for Brides and Their Attendants in Fashion
A fashion feature on bridal gowns and attendant dresses, detailing fabrics like georgette crepe de chine organdie and silver lace, with pearl and crystal bead embroidery. It describes gown silhouettes with long trains, overdresses, and veils, plus color stories for bridesmaids in turquoise, orchid, and rose, and notes from Paris on evening wear trends and new trims.
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Georgette
Paris
Couturiers
Paria
Salad and savory treats from a 1953 kitchen card
A portable collection of recipes and tips outlines dishes such as Herring and Potato Salad Turban of Smoked Salmon Fish Batter Cakes and Oatmeal Date Cakes. The piece also shares techniques for dressing fish, preparing tongue dishes and a honey angel cake, with brief inspirational lines.
Seven Languages Spoken in British Isles Noted
A segment lists seven distinct languages spoken across the British Isles. Besides English, Welsh is spoken in Wales Erinse in Ireland Manx on the Isle of Man Gaelic in Scotland French in the Channel Islands and Cornish in Cornwall. The True Criticism contends that real assessment of an author comes from the writers who follow him rather than the talkers.
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British Isles
Wales
Ireland
Manx
Isle of Man
Scotland
Channel Islands
Cornwall
The
Dial
Texas Leads In Federal Aid Highways With 1116 Miles
Government survey shows Texas finishing 1,116.4 miles of federal aid highways and Minnesota close behind with 1,066.6 miles. As of January 1, 193?, total completed roads reach 12,007 miles, with 15,834 miles under construction at about 70 percent complete.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
Texas
Minnesota
Ilinois
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Georgia
Iowa
North Carolina
Idaho
Washington
Middle Western
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Maryland
California
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Oakland author tale sparks novelist’s return
Charles Norris told the Oakland Literary club how a long-lost story titled Blue Pearls by Gladys Ethel Olney was rejected. A shy woman, Mrs Gene O Wierk, then revealed she was the author, saying the rejection doomed her writing career and led to corset making and marriage. Norris planned to help rekindle her literary spark.
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Olney
Norris
Gene O. Wierk
Gladys Ethel Olney
Oakland
Texas Blantons Face Off in Congressional Race
In Texas, sister Annie Webb Blanton of Denton runs for Congress while brother Thomas L. Blanton of Abilene campaigns. Annie, Texas schools chief and first woman in that role, pledges to push the soldiers' bonus if elected, opposing State Senator Guinn Williams of Decatur.
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Lu[olan W. Parrish
United States Senate
Miss Blanton
Congress
Guinn Williams
Decatur
W. G. Webb
University of Texas
University of Chicago
It's Only Emily's Love That's Dead
Emily Moll of 5122 Leavitt Street runs a Sheridan Road beauty parlor and acts as her own best advertisement expert on funerals. She staged two fake funerals in two days with no corpse or mourners, and a caller arrived for her sister Emily Goetz’s funeral. A joke on a jilted suitor backfired as the notices spread, revealing Emily’s love was dead and she engineered the charade.
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CS Peago
Emily Moll
Leavitt Street
Sheridan Road
Emily
M J. Goetz
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Goetz
Just the Wife of Dudley Field Malone
Doris Stevens, former suffrage picket and wife of Dudley Field Malone, returns from France and England and refuses to adopt her husband’s surname. She cites impact on freedom of thought and conduct and notes her actions reflect on him. She predicts possible matriarchy in the future.
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Marraige
Doris Stevens
Dudley Field Malone
Miss Stevens
Omaha
France
England
Id Malone
Washington
Highways Might Be Sharply Improved with Shade Trees
The piece argues lining highways with shade trees 50 feet apart would enhance beauty and reduce property or road damage. It notes Lincoln Highway spending last year reaching 9,472,906 dollars with Illinois accounting for 605,040 and 22.16 miles finished in Illinois and 397.56 on the whole route. It adds that in England 90,000 workers are employed in road construction and maintenance as aid to unemployment.
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Illnois
Illinois
Wife No 1 May Adopt Baby of Wife No 2
Mrs Florence G Orton, first wife of William G Orton, confessed bigamy and may adopt the second wife’s baby to save her husband from prison. Orton pleaded guilty in Municipal court and was bonded $2,000 pending probation department review. He had married Hulda Nicholas to give her child a name and disappeared after three weeks.
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Etroit
Florence G. Orton
William G. Orton
Orton
Pri
Hulda Nicholas
Ortons
Change of Life Woman's Trial
Emma Cunver of Metropolis Illinois credits Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during menopause. She reports eight months of illness and a rapid recovery, able to work daily and walk miles. The testimonial highlights relief from nervousness irritability hot flashes headaches and dizziness attributed to the product.
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Melis
Inos
Lydia Pinkham
Emma Cunver
7Th St
Metropolis
Illinois
Eee
E. Pinkham
Why Women Like Pipe Smokers—A 1922 Poll
A Denver survey finds most women favor pipe smokers for traits like thoughtfulness perseverance and homely steadiness. Men cite tobacco preference and Edgeworth as a personal fit with free samples offered by Larus & Brother Co Richmond Virginia, with postal prepaid options for merchants.
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Edgeworth
Larus & Brother Company
South 21St Street
Richmond
Denver
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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