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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1920
Page
10
A mother searches every room from pantry to loft for her missing son Willie. A doctor's remedies for Mr. B include calomel and quinine, while the maid boasts Mia’s rash treatment with quinine and slabs of slabastine.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as simple to use on wool silk linen cotton and blends to revive worn garments and draperies. It urges asking a druggist for the Diamond Dyes Color Card, while a separate anecdote from an Atlanta meeting recalls a man shouting Halleluiah as a single word of exclamation.
The excerpt recalls a scene in a camp where a young soldier sobs softly while peeling onions. A voice wonders if he reads a letter from home, but the reply says he is simply peeling onions. The remark shifts to a widow's view on remarriage and perfection in men.
Fashion notes for 1020 21 feature fur mantles moving from traditional coats to capes and robe manteau styles. Paris influence appears in draped dresses and organdie variants, with mantles in moleskin, caracul, Hudson seal, kolinsky, mink, and sable. New shapes include square hanging designs, slanted shoulders, and wrapped fronts, with rich linings and decorative buttons.
A 1930s fashion piece describes mink wraps with cape effects and fur trims. Designs include straight capes with two fur tufts below the collar, no sleeves, and side trimming bands worn with joops to form a muff. An all-one-piece cope adds stripes around the collar and body, with waist-joining ties. Also noted are ermine gowns and a deep yoke style with a choker collar.
A fragment describes a little girl in a plaid skirt, nesting her style in an intext mode of plaited akira and rivaling Olesieter in the glory of big plaids. The skirt shifts from demure to startling as colorings criss cross, revealing a caprice in a little girl’s clothes.
A Boston Globe report notes South Carolina mill villages with many women marrying young yet retaining jobs. Wages, mill numbers, and a large textile sector support a modern view of independence and partnership. The state lists about 15 mills in several counties with a 1.5 million population and mill workers totaling over 190 thousand dependents rely on paychecks totaling around one million weekly.
A morning note from William’s mother prompts a frown until the page reveals a billet-doux. A wry misdirection plays on expectations about letters and intentions in a compact anecdote.
A blunt critique of prison life contrasts claims of no torture with the reality of hard labor and enforced tasks. The speaker rejects assurances while describing punishment through forced work and a harsh environment inside American prisons.
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