Fashion News of 1917 Women Embrace New Tunic Silhouettes
A drift of fall fashion from New York cites the lead pencil figure and French tunic trend. Skirts grow longer and panels slash sides while belts, corsets, and waist drapery redefine the silhouette. The piece notes tunics, bust lines, and belts shaping the season with practical cautions for hips and proportions. It closes with a hair tonic tip and a note on women operating elevators in Boston’s terminal.
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House of Docuillet
Said
McKinley
Dreasmaker
McClure
Fooling the Motorist in a Ridiculous Detour Tale
A pedestrian tricks a driver into a detour by asking to be let in and guiding him away from the correct route. After two miles the pedestrian directs a U turn and reveals the mistake, saying he did not want to hurt the motorist’s feelings and that he would “let her.”
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Blankville
Anal
Piret
Golnelong
Ilva Lere
Get Dodd's Kidney Pills and the Three D's
Advertises Dodd's Kidney Pills as a trusted remedy for kidney ills and Bright's disease. Warns against substitutes, touts the three D logo, and promises satisfaction or money back with druggist availability and immediate preventive use with backache or stiffness signals.
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Dodd
Besio
Dodd' S
Church Pension Fund Oversubscribed Seeks Larger Goal
Final returns to J. J. Morgan, treasurer of the SS.WtNK Church Pension fund show subscriptions totaling 8 712 000, oversubscribed nearly 7 percent. Of this sum 5 104 555 has already been paid. It is the largest of its kind, second only to the Red Cross hundred million dollar fund in America. The effort took a full year and aimed at 5 000 000 but oversubscription was encouraged to strengthen the fund.
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Church Pension Fund
J. J. Morgan
Ss.wtnk
Episcopal
Red Cross
America
Quick Pay Roll Scheme Invents Jury Wake Machine
A new device wakes jurors by dropping into envelopes with a key pressed mechanism. The invention automates the jury roll process and delivers timed prompts to jurors.
New York In August Deaths From Street Accidents Rise
In August New York recorded 61 deaths in street accidents. Autos causing the fatalities involved ten persons, highlighting a troubling urban toll on road safety.
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New York
Peruna Endorsed By Patient From Rogersville Tennessee
Mr W Brown of Rogersville Tennessee reports a dramatic cure from catarrhal cough using five bottles of Peruna. He says the la grippe illness in 1900 was followed by a bad cough and catarrh, but after treatment his cough stopped and his weight rose from 115 to 148% while he offers the remedy to others with catarrh.
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W. 5. Brown
Rogersville
Tennessee
Free music training offered for Atlanta youths and men
The Atlanta Constitution reports a new free music school to be started by St. Philip's Cathedral under M Philip Sehileh. The program invites all men and boys over nine to learn fundamentals from recognized teachers and will be free on most days.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Constitution
St. Philip's Cathedral
M. Philip Sehileh
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