Berlin Trip Shows Clean Modern City Attracts Tourists
Mrs. Arthur Marks and her daughter Alexia describe Berlin as clean and modern with attractions for travelers though German homes lag in conveniences. They toured Nuremberg Dresden Munich Cologne and Rhine cities, then Switzerland Italy and France, noting theaters air services and public spaces, with economic concerns shadowing leisure.
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Germany
Arthur Marks
Alexia
Berlin
Mi Jx Sonver
Mary Toss Barrons
Chiestie Opera Company
Neodesha
Deniian
Patan
Ong
Evry
Wiere
Nuremburg
Fran
Alex
Munich
Dresden
Rhine
Cologne
Switzerland
Interlachen
Lucerne
Montrieux
Lausanne
Geneva
Archaeological Society
M Ks
Wert
Naples
Caruso
Florence
Venice
Egypt
Mediterranean
Genoa
Teo
Nier
Monte Carlos
Montone
Cannes
Marseilles
Paris
London
Zasu Pitts
Liverpool
New York
Lawrence
journal-World
Window fashion notes from Fifth Avenue shops
Miss Virginia Arnold reports on Bonwit Teller displays featuring suede leather scarves and purses in bright colors. Evening sandals, collarless white coats, and red white and blue color schemes appear. jewelry cases show eighteen karat gold tableware. lace gains, white satin remains favored at opera. Discount signs and liquidation sales reflect a dip in mood.
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Virginia Arnold
Lawrence
Fifth Avenue
Fifty Ninth
Thirty Fourth’ Street
Bonwit Teller
Uni
Tiffany
Lawrence Woman Helps Produce an Elaborate Pageant in Buffalo
Lawrence woman Miss Nancy Longenecker helped write and direct a pageant at the eleventh quadrennial Student Volunteer movement convention in Buffalo. Written with Jay Fisher, the production featured college students from many states, with Buffalo Westminster choir assisting. The pageant traced mankind’s struggle with poverty, disease, war, and ignorance, presenting Jesus Christ as a present power guiding toward freedom, set on three levels representing daily life, spiritual living, and the unknown. Weather in Chicago is noted as unusually mild for midwinter.
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Buffalo
Miss Longenecker
Silver Fox Scarfs to Be Replaced by Cloth and Fur Capes
Paris reports a spring fashion shift from silver fox scarfs to capes and cloth fur blends. Designers describe cape-like and scarf styles with fur trims, including coachman, cravat, and figure eight designs. Fur choices include sable dyed ermine and beaver for trims.
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Paris
Teauty
Fifth Avenue Shops Display Red White and Blue Styles
Spring fashion appears in Fifth Avenue shop windows with silks and straw hats already warming winter wardrobes. Beret like hats with tam crowns and small side quills appear in black and brown. Dresses feature print fabrics for street and afternoon wear with a main back silhouette and small figures. New silk designs show indistinct floral patterns amid larger motifs.
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Fifth Avenue
Associated Press
Fifth Avenue Fashions Notes From New York
Grandmothers' days caution in selecting prints as aging effects appear on fabrics. Fashion favors plain trims with contrast, combining plaid or striped silks with plain color. Silk yardage available with bias trimming in matching figures, patterns about ten to twelve inches wide. Suitable for hems, picot edges, or cut edges. From Mrs. Thomas A. Larremore.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Thomas A. Larremore
Fur Coat Gift Sparks Local Gossip in Lawrence Tale
A whispered Lawrence yarn centers on a fur coat given to a Lawrence woman by an admirer not her husband. To avoid scrutiny she pawns the coat in Kansas City and presents the pawn ticket to her husband, urging him to view the item as something they might enjoy.
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Wip
Kansas City
Newest In Chapeaux and a fur coat mystery
A Kansas City trip yielded a report that the reward bought little more than cheap jewelry. The wife, anxious and unspoken about her thoughts, later visited her husband’s office where she unexpectedly saw a stenographer leaving in a fur coat, heightening the tension.
W. C. T. U. Edited by Mrs. O. Jacymain excerpt
An archival fragment shows a W C T U notice edited by Mrs O Jacymain urging discussion on home brew history and prohibition. The passage contrasts prior in-home beer and wine stock with current legal constraints and debates pricing and access for the poor.
Voices From Prohibition Era Reflections On Saloons And Social Change
A speaker recalls days when ten cent mugs and rail workers funding tips shaped a bustling saloon culture. He notes 3 000 bars in his hometown, extensive bootlegging, and tax evasion by speakeasies, contrasting past abundance with present restraint and questioning reforms. He argues that renaming saloons cannot change their nature and laments social shifts.
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Howdy
Friends of Liquor
Snakes in Boots Phrase Echoes Marion Saying
The remark by Walter Ford of Marion Indiana compares current fears to the era when men reportedly saw snakes everywhere, including in their boots, implying a heightened alarm but referring to past bold claims rather than present danger.
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Walter Ford Marion
Ind
New Globe Gifts Modernize Lawrence Library Reading Rooms
Lawrence library updates reflect postwar interest in world affairs with an eighteen inch globe in the reading room funded by Gordon Grovenor endowment and a twelve inch globe for the children's room. The stand was refurbished and a gift of 148 novels from ex serviceman Conrad Clark enhances the collection.
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Thevity Library
Gordon Grovenor
J. N. Roberts
Conrad Clark
Lincoln Street
Way to a Man's Heart Boston Grown Bread Chips
A concise note hints at a local bread maker in Boston offering chips to accompany meals. The fragment references terms like Plover and Daking Niswaler, with scattered names such as Trisha. The readable text suggests a promotional brief or catalog item from a small shop without clear dates or amounts.
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Telispean Daking Niswaler
Ups Trisha
Heston Brown Bread Recipe Tips and Methods
Instructions describe mixing dry ingredients with molasses and milk or water, forming five small loaves, and steaming in one pound coffee cans for three hours. After steaming, remove lids to dry and reheat briefly before serving. Includes attributions to Mrs. Lessie B Ferguson and Mrs. EB Weatherby.
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Rhode Island
St. Heston
EB. S. Weatherby
Indiana St
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