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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1918
Page
6
A breezy overview of fashion fabrics and styles highlights new crepes crinkles and silks in wool blends for sports wear and everyday suits. Jersey remains popular with designers touting comfort and adaptable cuts including tunics and belts. Also noted are garment construction details like shallow pockets and button fastenings, with a nod to economical styling and regional textile notes.
The text describes simple, close hairstyles with hair combed back or parted modestly. It notes that youth faces show minimal coiffure, hair arranged to cover ears, shallow parts left or right, and thin wires pinning hair. Simplicity governs day wear with waves and high styling for formal occasions.
The text describes reducing ankle flesh using camphorated oil massage with vigorous strokes while pores are open, followed by tight linen bandaging to avoid restricting circulation. It adds hot foot bath treatment and gentler surface massage with liver or almond oil, then rebandages, urging careful repetition if desired results seem worthwhile.
A chaotic, OCR filled report details heavy fighting on the Somme with British counterattacks and dwindling German advances. It notes massive casualties on both sides, British tenacity at key positions, and fierce bombardments around Peronne, Beaumetz, and Vaulx as German forces push south while British units hold with stiff resistance.
An elderly veteran, seventy years old, enrolls to work on shipbuilding. He explains his lifelong labor, stating he will perform general all around work and apply for a shipyard printing job. The article notes his eagerness and readiness despite age.
An advertisement urges women to restore natural-looking hair color using La Creole or similar product. The copy promises a simple fix for streaked or uneven hair and offers the product at $1.00.
A quirky exchange unfolds as Chumpley courtesies Mrs Passionpen, praising her fame and poet status while she answers with haughty humor about a visible scorch mark from curling hair.
A fragmented handwritten note asks a Mr Styles WH to come voter night and mentions Mrs Mylew-Soredy. It inquires if Ash will bring her husband and knitting, with a terse reply of yes. The writer seems to request someone to bring exute suger and coal, suggesting help or supplies are being arranged.
An old newspaper fragment advertises La Creole Hair Dressing for restoring hair color and texture at $10. It also references Mrs Mlathbarh and Mrs Threehart in a Christmas theme. Merce’s Mercury Pellets claim to regulate liver and bowels, promoting a long history of efficacy.
Fragmentary OCR reads muddled lines about Mary speaking to a child and questions to advisers. Mentions a maternal agent, a chair, and gesture toward change or support, but readable facts are limited.
Pittsburgh insurance statistician Edward A. Woentae presents a wartime mortality study arguing that medical care lowers death rates. He asserts that a high share of treated soldiers return to combat and that a twenty year old American in trenches has similar odds of surviving to war’s end as a civilian counterpart.
A reader in Oregon describes personal farm trouble and health regained using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The note praises the remedy and urges others to contact Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine Co for information, claiming decades of experience and relief though details are unclear.
Santa Monica commissioners set next year’s garbage disposal price at 1800 per ton, up from 1.60 per ton previously. The decision governs city waste handling and revenue implications for the coming fiscal year.
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