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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1925
Page
7
A fashion writer explains that fur wraps now favor a moderate flare over extreme shapes. The silhouette dominates, with longer coats and midline fullness preferred. Cape backs, flounced fronts, and varied linings define 1925 26 styles while leopard and burunduki pelts lead daywear choices.
Paris fashion notes in the New York Herald Tribune describe Captain Molyneux’s season collection as refined and not revolutionary. Velvet dominates with chiffon accents, rich embroidery, and discreet trims including fur tassels and beaver fur collars matching matching muffs, showcasing the house’s autumn elegance.
Good points are highlighted by French designers who shape gowns with overlapping pointed skirts. These skirts are often outlined or embroidered with crystal beads or rhinestones and worn over slips in contrasting shades.
A pocketed travel pouch and a decorative wall case are shown as handy gifts. Cretonne lines the envelope shaped pocket with a ribbon lining and a separate smaller pocket under the flap. The wall case uses a cardboard foundation faced with silk cretonne or crepe paper and hangs by a hole in the back. Suitable for men and women.
The piece advises choosing costume flowers as gifts for women friends this year. It notes they are fashionable and made from ribbons silk and millinery with metallic ribbons for poppies and tinsel gauze veiling for rose petals, with stems of silver cord.
Lovers of beauty admire crepe paper roses made with fidelity to nature in a gray paper rope basket. Usually three natural rose shades with occasional watercolor veinings, offered as a gift from one woman to another, considered exemplary.
Instructions describe making a child sized desk set using beaverboard covered with a colored blotter and oilcloth. A blotter strip plus a diagonally placed oilcloth piece form a cover, with two more oilcloth pieces creating blotter and pen wiper covers. Mother Goose scenes decorate the oilcloth.
Christmas rag dolls appear in stockings and towels, their features sketched in color and dressed for the strenuous life of little tots. They are stuffed with cotton for soft play and companionship.
A guide describes a scene of primeval upheaval with great rocks tossed by a giant hand and streams hurled from their beds. The tourist quips that the apartment they sublet to strangers may look worse amid the chaos.
In Chicago News, Finnigan remarks he is dying for a smoke after cleaning his pipe, calling it one of the happiest moments of his life. Mulligan responds that it is among the happiest moments of your life. Finnigan notes he was all out of tobacco.
A quarrel over chores ends with a husband tossing dishes out the door in a heated exchange. The wife asks if chores were finished as she tied up the sink, while the husband resists, escalating the domestic dispute.
A diner scene unfolds as a man tips the check girl handsomely and gloats later, while she, distracted, returns a better coat by mistake. The mix of generosity and misperception hints at a small social lapse and the playful tension of a mistaken exchange.
A customer protests being charged for a whole chicken when only a leg was received. The vendor replies that it is their custom, prompting the customer to remark about not ordering a beefsteak.
Farmers joke about ending the drought by shifting the church picnic to next week hoping to endure until then. Dialogue sketches a light rural exchange with two men naming the postponed event as a coping measure.
A witty reflection questions whether a woman reveals her age and if keeping secrets is part of femininity. The tone treats age as a social cue and private matter.
Public speakers during the wartime era adapted to concise formats, delivering four minute talks that became a common practice. The shift, sparked by wartime conditions, influenced public discourse and presentation styles.
In a courtroom, counsel for the plaintiff began with a grand oration about the fall of Babylon. The judge interrupted, offering to extend the allotted time from 15 to 20 minutes if the speaker continued in that historic vein.
Local resident questions the storm's impact as damage remains uncertain and no one has blamed anything yet.
A brief exchange features a man asked about living within his income and replies that his wife restricts him from trying. The line hints at domestic constraint influencing financial decisions and personal agency.
In a brief exchange Susie warns she would not be in Jane's shoes while Jane retorts she would not want Susie to be, noting the strain would stretch them out of shape.
A playful exchange jokes about coming out without a hat and preferring not to wear a hat like the one you would wear. The banter centers on headwear taste and social norms. The lighthearted exchange reflects comedic timing and character voice.
A cryptic dialogue features Lord Jeff asking to open his heart and Wes Leyan Wasp replying that it cannot due to a Yale lock. The exchange highlights a metaphorical barrier and witty wordplay.
In a terse exchange, a founder asks why they need an assistant treasurer for a tiny company. The response notes they have so little money that it takes two people just to locate it.
In a witty exchange a wife explains she owns one dress and two hats while her partner boasts two hats to go with it. The playful dialogue highlights wardrobe planning and social vanity in a domestic moment.
A physicist explains a paradoxical trick to light a cigar without matches by removing one cigar from the box, turning the remaining box into a makeshift lighter. The chemist doubts the idea, while the physicist insists the subtraction creates a lithe, clever outcome.
A dialogue from a Progressive Grocer cartoon shows a father questioned about his daughter being read like a book by a young map reader. The scene plays on curiosity and family dynamics with a humorous twist.
The Washington Star reports Senator Sorghum avoiding a direct opinion on Europe. He quips that Europeans once claimed Americans misunderstand them, and he now claims it is his privilege to understand that Europeans cannot understand American politics.
A new family moved in after dark, drawing unease in the neighborhood as residents say they saw little of the furniture or the family. The comment notes tension and curiosity among locals about the late arrival and appearances.
In a heated exchange, activists declare plans to mobilize nationwide action while a male counterpart questions their status, asking if men are treated as disposable in the prevailing social order. The dialogue captures tensions over gender roles and reform momentum.
The Brown family suffered ptomaine poisoning after a picnic lunch left in a car all morning. The family doctor was summoned and sought the source of illness, asking if tainted food was involved. Mr. Brown recalled they had stored lunch in a tin container in the car.
An advertisement urges consumers to look for the Bayer name on aspirin packaging or tablets to ensure authenticity and safety. It claims Bayer aspirin is proven safe by millions and prescribed for 25 years and warns that imitations may be dangerous.
In geography class the discussion centers on how farmers raise better corn. When asked what a corn club is a student quips that it is the cob with no corn on it.
An advertisement touts USKIDE Soles as the wonder sole for wear produced by United States Rubber Company. It argues the soles are waterproof, healthy, and attractive, urging repairs and new shoes with USKIDE Soles to cut shoe costs.
A brief Life magazine quip recalls a fishing trip ruined by mosquitoes. The punchline notes a tiny tent left no room for insects, showing humor in camping misadventure. The exchange contrasts a snappy line with a practical camping mishap.
Toledo reader Mrs Laura Hager credits Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with curing longstanding stomach and bowel trouble after typhoid left her weak and unable to digest food. She reports relief from gas and heaviness and renewed health. Available in tablets or liquid at all dealers.
A fragmentary dialogue contrasts liking rural views with being a real estate man. It jokes that besides an Old Folks home there could be an Old Fogies home and notes few cities lack one. The line hints at love in camps and courts while divorce dominates courts.
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