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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1914
Page
3
Old time recipe uses Sage Tea and Sulphur to darken hair and halt graying. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy sells for 50 cents and promises dandruff relief and renewed gloss.
A Long Branch man praises Kline's Rheumatic Remedy after taking several bottles. He says pain swelling and stiffness vanished and urges others with rheumatism to try the product. Available at H. S. Meyers 119 Sixth Avenue Long Branch Jas Cooper Jr's drug store and Schroeder's Pharmacy Broad Street Red Bank.
The city announces inbound mail from New York, Philadelphia, Trenton and Asbury Park with specific arrival times including 8 00 a m 11 00 a m 1 45 2 45 and 6 45 p m for New York and north, and 8 00 a m 12 15 4 45 7 45 p m for Asbury Park south. Departures to New York north occur at 6 45 9 00 11 15 a m 12 46 2 16 3 60 6 10 and 7 00 p m. Money Order and Postal Savings window hours 8 00 a m to 6 00 p m. Letter carriers perform two residential and three business deliveries daily with collections three to four times daily. Post Office lobby Sundays 11 00 a m to 5 00 p m. T L Slocum P M.
Linen dresses remain a summer staple with tunic overlays as the season’s top silhouette. The blue linen gown with white organdie collars exemplifies current taste. Plaited fabrics, straight skirts, and puffed panniers shape taffeta frocks, with fullness often anchored by hip yokes or tunics.
The Millinery Trade Review reports that simplicity dominates street hats while Paris shows a shift away from eccentric shapes. Straw varieties predominate with glazed lisere and Italian milan in black navy blue and yellow shades. wider brims and higher crowns appear. Ostrich plumes, true lovers knots with velvet ribbon, and new satin ribbons gain popularity along with natural flower motifs and bronze green foliage.
Vanity Fair describes spring fashion with figured linen collars and cuffs on serge and poplin suits. Bodices are simple, skirts become elaborate, and feather pompons lead millinery. The bolero costume is favored for sunny days, high roll collars appear, and net scarfs feature embroidered designs with silver or colored bands.
A farmer buys a llama for beauty, faces barnyard laughter and fear of incompatibility. The llama pulls a milk cart, speeds away, climbs a rocky bank, collapses the cart, returns, and declares he will not be made useful, ending the attempt.
Mrs. Smith notices a new shop opposite run by a pale faced woman selling cheap goods with no deliveries. The couple watch curious customers and learn a jail tunnel connected the shop to a prisoner escaping through the wall. The case shifts as a confession reveals the true culprit.
A fashion note describes a two piece skirt creating a tunic like silhouette with circular rusties and flare. It cites textiles such as wool cotton and taffeta with cotton crepe and striped silk, and details yardage for a size 22 to 82 inch waist pattern from May Manton.
A kitchen paper lists assorted canape ideas and methods. Lobster canapes use fried bread rounds with marinated lobster centers and capers. Shrimp canapes feature butter fried bread with shrimp butter and shrimp tails. Tongue and chicken canapes combine minced meat with cheese or cream and capers on whole wheat bread. Nut and olive canapes use fried bread with olives peppers and pistachio border.
A Berthe Raulin design for stylish young girls features fine mull or batiste with eyelet embroidery and daisies. The dress showcases box pleats, square skirt openings with imitation vallace, Irish crochet borders, a yoke and collar, and a wide ribbon threaded through flounces. Small crochet buttons and pearl fastenings complete the elegant, childlike model.
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