Plaids Lead Spring Style Show In IStyle Horizon
Spring fashion notes hail winter plaids as forerunners of color in the season. Kilts from St Moritz and Lake Placid, shepherds plaid, checked jackets, plain shirts, and plaid jackets appear with skirts and basques. Plaid wool jerseys gain popularity for casual blouses and sport skirts, with featherlight textures and beret-inspired combinations.
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Paris
St. Moritz
Lake Placid
Ami Portan
Ermandy
Smokers' Past and Taxes Spark Quiet Debate
In a smoky room two fashionable young women discuss tobacco's lure and costs. They contrast modern pleasures with past norms, lament taxes funding smoking, and imagine cemeteries bearing notes like Killed by nicotine. The piece reflects on health risks, taxes, and societal attitudes toward smoking.
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United States
Onice Senaants
Fate of smokers and the tax of strength and beauty
The speaker laments tobacco as a drain on body and spirit, noting people regret starting smoking while non-smokers feel no loss. A pair of hobos on a highway joke about paying their tobacco tax as winds howl and the road runs rough. The fragment ends with "E. fr" as a truncation.
First Business Woman Printer of Books
Washington reports that Jane Aitken in Philadelphia in 1808 may be the first American businesswoman in print. The National Federation of Business and Professional Women notes surrounding early figures Mrs. Elizabeth Timothy of Charleston who ran her husband’s printing shop in 1838 and Mrs. Hanna Cole who ran a Missouri River ferry in 1814.
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Washington
Jane Aitken
Philadelphia
National Federation of Business
Elizabeth Timothy
Charleston
S. C
Hanna Cole
Missouri River
Women of Elks Club Form Bridge Group
Wives daughters and sisters of local Elks members organize a bridge club to meet on lodge evenings. Hostess duties rotate as members gather the same nights as their husbands and brothers, creating social activity within the lodge circle.
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Women of Elks Club
Elks
Lodge
Russian Woman Studies U. S. Mines Pittsburgh
A Russian researcher examines U.S. coal mining methods in Pittsburgh, tracing the transfer of techniques from the Urals to American mines. The project outlines the feasibility of by product ovens and steel production facilities, with a completion target around October 1931.
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Ural
Mia
Kiriloff
J.J. Gabricky
Bool Dore
Celebrates 99th Birthday of Mrs Lake in Lawrence
Mrs Margar et Lake marked her 99th birthday on November 26 at 746 Elm Street. Born November 26, 1831 near Chillicothe Ohio, she moved to Iowa then Kansas, arriving in Lawrence sixty years ago. She has witnessed great changes in transportation and living, remains in good health though with deafness and failing eyesight, and lives with her son John D. Ferguson and his wife. Her late husband R C Ferguson died years ago. she married Mr Lake in 1868 and has four children, two living George W Lake of Lawrence and D J Lake f of St Paul, Nebraska.
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Margaret Lake
Elm Street
Mrs. Lake
John D. Ferguson
R. C. Ferguson
Mr. Lake
George W. Lake
Lawrence
D. J. Lake F
St. Paul, Neb
Bowling Club Forms Women Welcome Card Toppers
Freshments and prizes accompany both high and low scores as an organization forms. Mrs. Charles Radcliffe is president with Mrs. Clarence Hunter as treasurer. A bowling class is planned for those who prefer bowling to cards. Meetings occur in the dining room on the first and third Wednesday evenings. The club welcomes all eligible women.
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Charles Radcliffe
Clarence Hunter
Children and conceit in early studies
The note discusses a common belief that cruel or superior children become conceited, noting research shows children as a group are less conceited and tend to compare themselves with high achievers. It mentions occasional cases where conceit links to the child’s personal circumstances.
Superior children and gifted class dynamics and meals menu
Article notes that gifted children in a fully gifted class may lose self esteem by competing with peers. It also presents a long excerpt of meal plans and recipes for breakfast and dinner including prunes waffles sausage meat loaf and veal dishes with varied side dishes and a pineapple dressing. A brief science blurb reports that two hours of acneine daily in June equals one minute of seventy volt UV light for rickets research from Albany and Albany Medical College.
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Albany
N.Y
American Chemical Society
Arthi Haudnor
Albany Medical
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Openglere
Carole Lombard
Mass
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