Fascination of Orient Revealed in Letters From Lawrence Girl
Miss Davida Olinger, a Lawrence educator, writes from Persia about her experiences in Hamadan and Baghdad. She describes native homes with rugs and mud walls, gendered social spaces, and long celebrations. travels through Cyprus, Palestine, and Persia. swimming in the Dead Sea and Mediterranean. tennis in Hamadan. and roads and transportation details from Beirut to Damascus. She notes security checks upon arrival, a modern Persian hospital, and encounters with old KU friends Christy and Fern Wilson.
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Davida Olinger
Hamadan
Persia
Orient
Miss Olinger
Baghdad
Maude
Y.M.C. Aa
Jetta
Palestine
Texas
Kermanshah
K.U
Christy Wilson
Delta Chi
Novel Fastenings View With Buttons Paris Fashion
Paris fashions showcase devious fastenings beyond ordinary buttons. Schiaparelli uses copper bars and shoe-string tied slides with metal tips. Vera Bore favors wooden buttons and silver safety pins for snug coats. Ardanse belts blue green crepe frocks with two large mother of pearl buttons. Chanel outfits feature leather belts with studs. Hoover address in Cleveland looming as public hall preparations proceed.
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Paris
Schiaparelli
Vera
Ardanse
Chanel
Revival of Victorian Fashion Sparks Old Jewelry Revival
The fashion revival features a return to Victorian style with plastrons collars tunics and caned edged dresses. Jewelry plays a key role with yellow gold garnet necklaces long earrings and matching brooches alongside bracelets in demand as accessorizing customers revive heirloom pieces.
Jewelry trends in plain metal beads and pearl strands
Necklaces of plain silver or gold beads are stylish, as are the cobra bracelet and other pieces in silver or gold. Jewelry beads remain popular among men, with pearl beads in single or double strands considered correct. Jet jewelry has also reappeared to some degree.
W C T U story on wartime morals and alcohol sacrifice
A World War era W C T U account recalls a dentist pulling a stubborn molar while the narrator reflects on the suffering of American soldiers in France. The piece urges prohibition, contrasting battlefield sacrifice with civilian drinking and urging readers to abandon alcohol to support the war effort.
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France
Washington, Pennsylvania
Morris
United States
Drink for' and restraint against costly wasteful drinking
A fragment questions drinking as a social aid and warns that alcohol erodes health reputation and alertness. The speaker urges men to take a stand against the waste of money time and energy caused by drunken habits, stressing the loss of instinctive senses.
Talks To Eight Pote Acknowledges Child Within Despite Success
A successful businesswoman speaks of feeling immature amid conferences and public speaking. She recalls lifelong humiliation from childhood, while recognizing enormous drive fueled by proving grown up status. The piece notes adults often overlook a child’s perception of smallness and ignorance, and that family and school life can ease this burden.
Sunday Dinner Menu with Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
A Sunday dinner menu lists Chicken Pot Pie and stuffed sweet potatoes with a pineapple salad. The recipe includes butter, stock or water, milk, salt, pepper, celery, chopped chicken, parsley, and a biscuit top. It outlines making a creamy sauce, assembling in a baking dish, and baking biscuits atop the pie.
Visit to a Tennessee plantation recalls midcentury life
Mrs. Ralph Roby and family toured a Collierville plantation near Memphis, describing primitive rural life with cotton fields, a cotton gin, corn mill, and commissary. They observed tenants, mules, and a frost, noting large flowers like the Coxcomb.
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Collierville
Memphis
Tenn
Ralph Roby
F. S. Larrabee
Larra
Bee
Lawrence
My Beauty Hint On Attractive Ankles And Exercises
A vintage advice note suggests a beauty tip linking facial appeal to ankles and recommends dancing, ballet, and ballroom activity to slim ankles. It outlines a simple daily exercise: stand barefoot, rise slowly to the toes, pause, and drop back, repeating twelve times twice daily to improve the look.
Way to a Man's Heart and Pickle Recipes
Unclear OCR shows two home recipes for pickles and a brief fashion note. A Ramage Pickle mix uses green and red tomatoes with celery onions peppers cabbage and cucumber, salt overnight, add vinegar sugar cook and seal. A piccalilli variant lists ingredients and steps to salt drain and simmer then seal. Separate items mention sequins back in favor with Paris fashion details and a rubberized crepe fabric trend.
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H. H. McClintock
Route
Lawrence
Ethel Palmauist
Indiana St
Two piece coats offer dual winter wear
Paris reports two piece coats solve the need for both short and long winter coats. A hiplength fur jacket by Bruyere pairs with a collarless sleeveless full-length wool coat. When worn together the long wool model appears as a fur sleeved and collared wool coat.
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Paris
Bruyere
Rogers a hard luck player
Independence Kansas October 14 Pat Paul Rogers halfback for Independence high school football noted for long runs that were nullified by penalties. In the first two games this season Rogers twice sped to long touchdown runs only to have them wiped out by penalties.
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Independence
Kan
Paul Rogers
Rogers
Pittsburg
Parsons
Multifarious Church Services on Sundays and Orgs
Fragmented notes list Trinity Lutheran and First Presbyterian churches with pastor names, choirmaster, organist, and varied programs. Included are adult education, youth choirs, special music, and student forums at Westminster hall, plus an Assembly of God outreach and plans for baptisms and a revival by Rev. Lloyd Lanpinsies.
Daniel's Stone Kingdom Sunday Night Series
A church series continues with Rev. Lappington presenting a Sunday night program on Daniel's Stone Kingdom. The events promise an engaging and helpful message for attendees each evening. An exhibit of Kansas grown vegetable products is on display at the Kansas Electric Power Company building, canned by Kaw Valley cannery under Columbus Foods, with Pencrest Sunburst and Poehler King brands featured.
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Sa Bsiday
Lappington
Daniel
Kansas
Kansas Electric Power Company
Kaw Valley Cannery
Columbus #oods corporation
Columbus
Wis
W. H. Pendleon
Douglas County
Pencrest
Sunburst
Poehler King
Poehler Mercantile Company
Ewes
Lutheran Brotherhood Class Seeks Forty Attendees Sunday
The Lutheran Trinity church Brotherhood Class meets each Sunday at 9:45 a.m. in the sanctuary with about forty men expected to discuss The Home and the Coming Generation led by Rev. C A Puls. Walter A Schaal notes practical fall topics and lively discussion as men sing old favorites for fifteen minutes.
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Brotherhood
C. A. Puls
Walter A. Schaal
Trinity Lutheran Church
Seth Parker
Ja. C. Reuter
Charley Schulz
Reverend Patterson to Preach at Unitarian Church Soon
Rev George F Patterson D D of Boston, administrative vice president of the American Unitarian Association, will preach Sunday morning before the Unitarian Society of Lawrence on Religion At the Cross Roads. He will speak in the evening at Topeka on A Journey to Iceland. He represented the AUA at Iceland’s thousandth anniversary in 1930 and is in close touch with many churches in the fellowship. He earned the Doctor of Divinity degree from Lombard College in 1926.
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George F. Patterson
D.D
Boston
American Unitarian Association
Midwestern
Unitarian Society of Lawrence
Topeka
Iceland
Patterson
Manitoba
Pacific Coast
South
Middle West
Lombard College
Parables of Our Lord Sermon Series at Immanuel Church
Pastor W W Steepnes worth will deliver a series of sermons on the Parables of Our Lord at Immanuel Lutheran Church the Little Stone Church at Tenth and Kentucky Sunday evenings at 730. The first sermon will be the Prodigal Son chosen to illustrate how the sinner is received into the kingdom of God.
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W. W. Steepnesworth
Immanuel Lutheran
Little Stone
Tenth
Kentucky
Stoeppelwerth
Stoeppelworth
Hongkong Levies 10 Percent Tax On Imported Cars
The Hong Kong colonial government ordered a 10 percent levy on the landed cost of foreign cars imported, affecting American and other non-British motorcar manufacturers. The duty became effective immediately, signaling a British tax move in the colony.
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Hongkong
China
Hong Kong Trade Tax Seen as Blow to Foreign Dealers
Hongkong's contribution to the Ottawa imperial preference plan faces a new tax that foreign dealers say will harm trade, previously exceeding $500,000 annually with about ninety percent from American commerce. Foreign agents study moving their South China agency to Canton, risking Hong Kong’s role as automotive distributing center. Once a free port, Hong Kong only levies taxes on liquors and tobacco.
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Hongkong
Ottawa
South China
Canton
Hong Kong
Plans Special Program At Trinity Lutheran Church
A radio program of religious melodies prepared for Trinity Lutheran Church will air on Jenny Wren Station every Sunday at 9 00 am. Mrs Mildred Dunn, music director, leads a quartet singing hymns such as Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Sweet Hour of Prayer Rock of Ages and God Be With You Till We Meet Again. Dunn will also sing a travel song His Eyes On the Sparrow. Hymns were partly chosen from listener letters to Rev C A Pals who notes frequent radio requests.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Jenny Wren
Mildred Dunn
C. A. Pals
Memorial Hospital Notes and Local Movements
Mrs Julius Raffelock, confined at Memorial hospital after an automobile accident on Wednesday afternoon, left for home at 1512 Vermont street yesterday afternoon. Hospital attendants say Mrs Sam Raffelock of 1619 Vermont street will probably leave the hospital tomorrow. The ad mentions a Lawrence Business College class starting next Monday.
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Julius Raffelock
Memorial Hospital
Vermont Street
Sam Raffelock
Lawrence Business College
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