Hints on How to Make Own Dresses
A fashion column outlines simple jumper frock styles for home dressmakers. It advises: start by assessing your figure in a long mirror, choose slim lines or lengthening panels for thicker figures, and use godets, panels, and trims to create vertical lines. Jumpers dominate, with variations in sleeves, collars, sashes, and embroidery to suit slim or full figures.
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Gengson
New York
Gerald Sribune
Indy
Trock
Demoiselle
Paris
Jersey
In Love of God Growth Through Root Not Branches
The guidance emphasizes growing in God’s love by developing the core inner life rather than focusing on outward acts. It urges cultivating steadfast faith, humility, and personal devotion as the foundation of spiritual growth.
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God
A Christian Helps the Cause of God by Character
Presbyterian Record notes that true service to God is shown more by a devout life than by words, highlighting the example of humble virtue over rhetoric.
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God
True Success: Expect Rain Without Clouding Effort
The Christian Observer notes that true success comes from effort rather than relying on favorable conditions. It cautions against expecting outcomes without work.
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Christian Observer
Conscience Warns as Friend Then Judge
A brief insight in the Presbyterian Record notes conscience acts first as a friend guiding actions and later as a judge enforcing consequences for those deeds.
Making Yourself Great Says Nothing by Humility
A Presbyterian Record quote urges that true greatness comes from lifting others, not belittling them. It highlights humility as essential to character and leadership without naming any organizations or dates.
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Presbyterian Record
Near Jewels Showcase Shines With Colorful Holiday Accessories
Novelty jewelry features bright pearl strands in sets including 9 strand chokers with matching earrings and bracelets. Designs range from serpentines to flexible clasps with imitation jewels, and include dog collars of untinted pearls and finer strands with jeweled clasps. Jet, cut steel, cameos, moonstones, agate, and semiprecious stones appear in antique and oriental styles, with gilt and silver pieces echoing Etruscan and Spanish patterns.
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South Sea Isles
Leather Thread Hats Highlight Chic Crochet Styles
Crocheted leather thread creates chic sports hats with striped one inch bands and soft hues. Caps feature re-embroid ered bust dots and a butterfly motif. another cap combines blue and white with blue woolen dots and a woolen pompon. Hand knits show large designs in bold colors and pala blendings.
Georgia Court of Appeals rules repetition of slander is willful
In Atlanta Georgia the Georgia Court of Appeals upheld a Stephens Superior Court ruling awarding $2000 in a slander case. The court found that even when the original statement had no third party and the repeater believed it in good faith every repetition of the remark constitutes willful slander.
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Atlanta
Georgia Court of Appeals
Stephens Superior Court
Woman Dip Tells Of Her Thrills In Theft Trial
New York Brookyn resident Tillie Dorf pleads for clemency as she faces sentencing for pocket picking. She admits began stealing at eight, says the thrill comes from the act, and demonstrates by lifting a vanity case from a reporter in Raymond Street jail.
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New York
Tillie Dorf
Brooklyn
Kings County
McLaughlin
Raymond Street
Murdane Fire Vexes Miss Spore at Delmonico Studio
In New York a fire alarm tore through the Delmonico’s building at Forty fourth street and Fifth Avenue. Psychic painter Marian Spore saved 175 canvases by wrapping them in canvas as smoke poured up the stairs and the firemen moved in.
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New York
Marian Spore
Delmonico’s
Forty-fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Miss Spore
Teeth Swallowed by Man Sends Him to Hospitals
Conrad Wimier of Brooklyn swallowed a full set of upper teeth during a coughing spell. He was treated at Norwegian Hospital then Brooklyn Eye and Ear. after a long day, Dr. John Auwerda removed the plate at 9 PM, with no throat injury.
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New York
Conrad Wimier
Thirty-second Street
Brooklyn
Wimier
Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital
Walt
John Auwerda
Witmer
Woman Tramps Country Two Years in Men's Clothes
Grace Crow, formerly of White Eagle Ola, traveled across the country for two years posing as a man to seek work. She wore an old suit with torn shirt and cap and said she began roaming after her parents' deaths.
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St. Louis
On Piece Station
Grace Crow
White Eagle
Ola
Old Sofa Fortifies Found Bills Near Beech Street Grounds
In Holyoke Massachusetts a worker clearing waste near Beech Street grounds uncovered a sofa stuffed with currency bills. The discovery caused a local stir likened to finding new lands, as the bills appeared to serve as a safety will by a former owner. The finder refused to reveal more details.
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Holyoke
Mass
Beech Street
Te Plains
Siamese Piglets Born On Local Farm Near Here
Regular Siamese wing formed from two bodies joined at a single head found among a pig litter on a nearby farm. Each body has four legs, and the heads feature two normal ears and two smaller ones. The piglet died shortly after birth.
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Marengo
Wills Probate Records Filed at Somerset House
Wills probated in Great Britain are filed in Somerset House, London, serving as the central repository for probate records. The archive indicates the formal processing of testaments and related documents within the legal framework of the realm.
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Great Britain
Somerset House
London
Jap Festival Marked by Display of Flags
Japan marks its boys festival with fish flags from every house to honor sons. Carp flags vary by age, and the display travels across rural and urban areas, creating a colorfulBrave scene as families compete within their means. The flags symbolize new generation and manhood as spring greens appear.
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Japan
Lfe
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Claim
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a universal kidney liver and bladder remedy claiming many testimonials and swift relief. It offers sample bottles by mail from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY and urges purchase at drug stores.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Leading U.S. cities by area per New York Times
The text lists New York as the largest city by area followed by New Orleans Chicago Whitedelphia Seattle Attic and Detroit in descending order. It cites square mile figures though many are garbled and inconsistent.
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United States
New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Whitedelphia
Seattle
Detroit
New York Times
Cuticurn Pimples and Blackheads Ad Promotion
Cure voice promotes Cuticurn Ointment to remove pimples and blackheads. Instructions urge washing with Cuticurn Soap and hot water after five minutes. Suggest daily use of Cuticurn Soap, Ointment, and Talcum to maintain clear skin.
Royal Gorge Films Exhibit To World Wide Audience
Motion pictures of the Royal Gorge in Colorado are prepared for exhibition worldwide. A special train was needed to shoot the scenes and the car wheels must be flawless to avoid marring camera reproductions.
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Royal Gorge
Colorado
United States
Canadian reforestation effort hits twenty thousand trees daily
Western Canada faces depleted forests and, with government support and farmer involvement, maintains a steady pace of 20 000 trees planted each day for two decades. The piece links reforestation to national renewal and notes art as a product of nature.
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United States
Quest of Each Had to Do With Appetite
A folk tale recounts a landowner meeting an Irishman labeled a poacher during a morning walk. The man asks why the other is out so early and learns the dialogue centers on seeking an appetite for breakfast. The humorous exchange highlights appetite as the driving theme.
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Slore
Montreal
Phwat
Pat
White rainbows seen in Taiyuan amid China crisis omens
A Chinese correspondent reports three white rainbows observed in Taiyuanfu Shansi as omens of upcoming turmoil in China with references to Wu dynasty events to support the warning of both internal and external troubles ahead.
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Peking
Taiyuanfu
Shansi
China
Postal Toll Campaign Aims to Fight Locusts in Mexico
A budding post toll plan in Mexico faces scrutiny as authorities push a campaign to fund locust control. The unusual approach seeks funds through postal charges, with officials stressing urgent action despite unclear public support.
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Mexico
Britain Issues Over Fourteen Million Medals for World War Service
Great Britain has issued more than 14,000,000 medals for service, distinguished action and bravery in connection with the World War. The total includes medals for field action and for distinguished service of various kinds outside the battle zone.
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Great Britain
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