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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1926
Page
10
A series of illustrated Show Card Lettering lessons starts in the Journal-World on Monday April 26. Max J. Hetler, NYC school art head and card writer, teaches affordable methods for retailers to create signs. The five upcoming installments cover Gothic, Roman, spacing tricks, layout, balance, and ornament harmony.
Local merchants promote a variety of goods including Eaton Tweed fabrics, hair styling and beauty products, and gift items for Mother's Day. The Sunner season highlights sales on woolens and a promotion offering a free china set with a Detroit Jewel range demo.
The Lawrence market article highlights new cash registers including an adding machine model, Mother's Day candy boxes from Park and Tilford and Donaldson's, Kelvinator refrigerators increasing consumer demand, stylish tib silks from Janes', Fitch shampoo demonstration at Sample's, and a veteran World War I pilot Paul Lemay joining the Minneapolis Symphony during a Lawrence music week. The piece notes a tractor demonstration April 27-28 and facts about wireless masts near Rugby England.
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