French Clothes and the Paris Fashion Influence
In 1918, American garment workers discuss importing French attire and high prices. They note Americans push for independent fashion choices postwar, while Paris still guides silhouette details, fabrics, and ornamentation. Prices for French gowns remain prohibitive, prompting calls for cheaper American-made alternatives and new dressmaking trends.
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Paris
France
Callot
America
McClure
Paris Hat Fashions Feature Tiny Spring Models
A Paris shop correspondent notes tiny spring hats with satin trims and bold brims. Two standout designs include black milan straw with military blue brim and black ostrich, plus a black taffeta crown with French blue ribbon bow. The piece highlights quirky brims, ribbon flowers, and a French flower revival driving local industry. Also advice on dry hair suggests olive oil scalp treatment before shampoo and an egg shampoo alternative.
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Paris
Milan
Freckles vanish with Othine double strength treatment
A vintage advertisement promises freckle removal with Othine double strength. It claims night and morning application clears even dark freckles, often needing only one ounce, and offers a money back guarantee if results fail.
Not Very Expensive Cook Is a College Graduate Wife
A dialogue notes a college graduate employed as a cook. The cost is said to be minimal because she works for her board and clothes and is the narrator's wife.
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Paria
Italy
Notary sworn Cheney firm oath in Toledo Ohio
J Cheney, senior partner of Ir. J. Cheney joining business in Toledo, swears secret oath of one hundred dollars for cure of catarrh. Notary A W Gleason attests on December 6. Advertisement mentions internal treatment via blood pathways with testimonials and free sample. B J Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio.
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Btate
Ohio
City of
Toledo
Lucas
J. Cheney
B. J. Cheney & Co
Prices rise as butcher predicts higher costs
A Louisville butcher warns prices are climbing, arguing costs will continue to head upward. The brief exchange captures shopper anxiety as food bills loom larger in daily life.
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t—Louisville Courier- Journal
Careful inspection urged for classic Castoria remedy
The notice highlights examining Castoria product labeling for infants and children, touts Fletcher's Castoria as a natural sequence, and mentions Cuticura for eczema and itching with offers for free samples from Cuticura, Boston. A brief joke line about a wife attacking a husband ends the fragment.
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Dept
Boston
Woman Overcomes Nervousness With Vegetable Compound
Winona Minnesota woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending a year of chronic nervousness and sleepless nights. The testimonial claims the remedy stabilizes nerves, improves health, and restores energy, marking it as a standard treatment for disorders affecting women. Published as a promotional notice from 1918.
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Winona
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Inkham
Three Kinds of Gentlemen in Ireland From Historic Class Musings
The piece outlines three Irish gentleman types from two centuries ago. The "half-mounted" or Buckskin Breeches class includes Cromwell soldiers' descendants who rode well. The "gentleman every inch" are heirs of forfeited estates forced into trade or professions. The "gentleman to the backbone" are the old stock who lived on ancestral estates and peasant labor.
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Ireland
Emerald Isle
A Square Meal in the Trenches
Soldiers debate dining amid war life noting a menu of potatoes steak butter honey fruit pie and two eggs. One man quips the feast is not for eating but for thinking about, reflecting the contrast between scarcity and imagined luxury.
Move Blockade Sparks Unusual Household Row
In Boston Transcript prose an odd domestic dispute unfolds as one partner asserts plans to break up housekeeping while the cook refuses to depart, creating a humorous stalemate over who stays and who leaves. The exchange highlights a domestic tension framed as a public newspaper moment.
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Boston Transcript
Early Criticism His Ma Johnny Thumb In Soup
The scene features a mother admonishing Johnny to remove his thumb from his soup while The Kid replies that the soup is not hot. The remark hints at early criticism of the German emperor, noting he will have occupied the throne for thirty years this coming June.
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Johnny
Her Choice in Love and Temptation
Dialogue contrasts Gladys and Penslope between old and young suitors. A young man’s slave is easier to break and to make toe the mark. Heppy longs for a home that feels like a club, so her husband never wants to leave.
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Gladys
Heppy
Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Ad
An old fashioned herbal remedy claims to renew energy and stamina by purifying blood. The advertises Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery made from Golden Seal Blood Oregon grape and other roots with no alcohol and narcotics. Tablets sixty cents and liquid available at drug stores.
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Dr. Pierce
Oregon
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Dean
Missouri
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Emerald Island
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