Pretty clothes by budgeting a small weekly salary
Miss Maud I. G. Oliver, dress design teacher at Lane Technical Evening School, says a girl earning 25 dollars weekly can clothe herself on under 100 dollars per half year by DIY sewing and careful budgeting. She outlines costs for a coat, shoes, hosiery, hat, gloves, undergarments, blouses, a frock, a georgette piece, gingham, and a skirt, totaling a little under 100 dollars.
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Chicago
Maud I. G. Oliver
Lane Technical Evening School
Miss Oliver
Dimity
Printing Costs Soar for Washington Hearings
Public Printer George H. Carter estimates the Senate and House hearings for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924 will nearly double prior volumes and cost about 250000 dollars. He notes 1922 costs at 122739 and last year at 65345, with a 3200000 printing appropriation to be watched. He cites 15 million bonus forms plus 150000 cost, Teapot Dome and Daugherty hearings swelling pages, and 1791 pages for Veterans Bureau hearings.
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Times
Washington Bureau
New York Ave
Washington
George H. Carter
Senate
House
Congress
Carter
Teapot Dome
Daugherty
Migration on Increase as 1923 Immigration Rising in Europe and North America
The International Labor Office reports higher 1923 immigration to Great Britain Italy and Canada while France sees more alien workers. U S and Canada both gain with the United States recording 387 057 arrivals and Canada 117 011 for 1923.
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Times Special
Washington
International Labor Office
Great Britain
Italy
France
United States
Canada
Massive Congressional Record Output Strains Printing House
The Shipping Board inquiry hearings lack volumes due to rushing Senate testimony and heavy Record production. The Congressional Record averages 409 more pages monthly, with 10 000 extra pages in six months. Printing costs last year reached $527 897.
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Special House
Shipping Board
Senate
Congressional Record
Council seeks removal of two peacocks in Bournemouth
Bournemouth residents circulate a petition calling for the removal of two peacocks bought by the town to beautify the city. The birds’ nocturnal cries disturb the town and one bird frightened an elderly spinster by appearing in her parlour window.
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Bournemouth
Eng
London landmark Byron House falls to wreckers
London report notes the Byron home at 8 St James Street damaged by wreckers marking another famous literary landmark lost. It describes a spiral staircase reaching the roof among the house features and mentions a distant India belief about elephants having two trunks three eyes and ten legs in the afterlife.
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London
Lord Byron
St. James St
India
Bank Bandit Andre Coquin Found Hiding in Bath Tub
After a four day manhunt near Paris police located bank bandit Andre Coquin hiding beneath an overturned bath tub just outside Paris. He asked to bathe before jail when placed under arrest. A Pe merchant runs a store selling only plain and fancy collar buttons and cuff links.
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Paris
Andre Coquin
Coquin
Told by An Idiot book review highlights life’s constant pattern
A reviewer praises Rose Macaulay s Told by An Idiot as a sweeping portrait of human life across England from 1879 to 1920. The piece emphasizes life s unchanging core despite shifting dress and era, with satire on ambition and happiness and a recommendation to read from first page to last.
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Alter D. Hickman
Rose Macaulay
Rose Macalay
England
Pa Garden
Pettis Dry Goods Company
Bent and Liveright, Publishers
Dickens
Papa Garden
Papa
Mamma
Vicky
Rome
Paurice
Stanley
New Books Arrive at Public Library Across Genres
The Public Library announces new acquisitions across fiction sociology psychology and economics poetry and essays biography history and travel. Notable titles include The Home Maker by Mrs D F C Fisher Lorraine by D F Gilman Advisory Ben by E V Lucas High Fives by M B McClure and Test of Donald Norton by R E Pinkerton. Additional sociology and psychology works feature Crystallizing Public Opinion by E L Bernays American Looks at His World by Glenn Frank Americas Place in the World by H A Gibbons Psychology in Theory and Application by H W Dresser Workmen's Compensation by E H Downey With Congress and Cabinet by W C Redfield. Poetry and essays add Memorial Day in Poetry by Carnegie Library School Association Poems 1904 1917 by W W Gibson Latitudes by Edwin Muir. Biographies and travel include Soul of Samuel Pepys by Gamaliel Bradford Robert Burns by Andrew Dakers Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Lady Henry Somerset by Kathleen Fitzpatrick Unwritten History by Cosmo Hamilton Journal of Marie Lenera Changes and Chances by H W Nevinson Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln.
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C.) Fisher
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H. W. Dresser
E. H. Downey
Congress and Cabinet
W. C. Redfield
Carnegie Library School <Association
W. W. Gibson
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Gamaliel Bradford
Robert Burns
Andrew Dakers
Emily Dickinson
Henry Somerset
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Cosmo Hamilton
Marie Lenera
H. W. Nevinson
Abraham Lincoln
Lunar rainbow observed in Surrey during shower
A complete arc lunar rainbow appeared during a recent shower at Sanderstead in Surrey England, drawing attention from locals and sky watchers for its rare astronomical display.
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Sanderstead
Surrey
England
Europeans Seek Transcontinental Telephone Service Like America
A European engineer calls for a comprehensive long distance telephone system akin to the United States. He notes the Gibraltar to Ural span is 6,250 kilometers, shorter than the San Francisco to Key West route, and cites Europe’s traffic gaps and brief capital distances as challenges. Continuing discussion in Europe’s technical press highlights American experience as a reference.
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New York
Europe
United
Paris
Gibraltar
Ural Mountains
San Francisco
Key West
European telephone systems to unify via intra district use
A German expert warns against expecting the European long lines system soon. He says development will focus on busy districts for internal use, with future inter national links by cables or open wires as traffic grows.
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Europe
Labor Statistics Conference Planned for 1925
The International Labor Organization meeting in April authorized the director of the International Labour Office to call a second conference of labor statisticians in February 1925. It will focus on classification of industries and statistics on cost of living unemployment and wages.
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Washington
International Labor Organization
Conference of Labor Statisticians
International Labor Office
Labor Statisticians
Corner Stones Laid for International Labor Office
On October 21, 1923, government, employer and worker representatives laid the foundation stones of the International labor office building in Geneva. An illustrated booklet has been issued commemorating the event with reports of speeches and ceremony details.
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Times
Washington
International Labor Office
Geneva
Switzerland
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