New Swim Fashion Highlights This Season at the Beach
The season features vast material variety in swim wear from lastex to satin, with black satin lastex swimsuits and beach capes leading the trend. Coral and yes materials such as celanese rayon sharkskin, silk prints, linens, and cottons appear in ensembles. Bright color contrasts, gadget jewelry like catalin fish pins, and bold blue and white capes define the fashionable beach sets. Western Newspaper Union.
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Monk
Traphagen
Western Newspaper Union
Accent On Pockets By Cherie Nicholas
A fashion feature highlighting pocketed garments in dresses jackets and blouses with decorative stitching and playful details. The piece notes decorative pockets framed by apple blossoms and describes a novelty costume element worn by a young woman in an outdoor setting.
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Cherie Nicholas
Laabek
Ribbon Wonders Dominate Summer Dress Styles
Fashion notes celebrate a ribbon season with dresses trimmed in bows and wide or narrow ribbons in single or multicolor schemes. Designers create ribbon boleros and even dresses entirely edged in ribbon, while hats feature bindings bands and bow accents.
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Paris Couturiere
Frilly Frilly Guimpes or Vestees In Fashion
The piece describes delicate guimpes and vestees to wear with suits or belero outfits. It notes lace fronts and sheer looks suitable with or without jackets and hints at affordable prices spurring purchases as an economy read.
Sailor Hats Bet Range Includes Straw and Oilcloth
The latest sailor hats offer a broad selection from straw to oilcloth materials, appealing to varied climates and styles. Prices span modest to higher ends as options expand beyond traditional straw. The assortment indicates growing demand for practical sun protection and nautical fashion.
Soapy Seeks Shelter In O Henry Cop And Anthem Tale
A fragment from O Henry reveals Soapy choosing winter survival through law or charity. He prowls for meals, targets a restaurant and a plate glass window, then attempts to charm a passerby as winter raises stakes and options narrow in the urban vignette.
Noted Writer Porter Born in 1862 in Greensboro
Willam Sidney Porter later known as Henry Porter, born 1862 in Greensboro, faced a bank embezzlement charge in Austin, Texas. He served five years in an Ohio penitentiary where he pursued writing, later selling a weekly story to the New York World for 100 dollars. He died in 1910 and was buried in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Willam Sidney Porter
Greensboro
N. Co
Henry
Austin
Texas
Porter
Ohio
New York World
Asheville
N.C
Encyclopaedia Hritannica
Soapy’s Night Out Ends With Three Months On Island
A drunken Soapy tries to dodge a cop while guiding a frightened girl and causing a disturbance. He contemplates a better life, but a sermon from a constable leads him to accept a three month sentence on the island for vagrancy.
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Soapy
Jack Frost
Yale
Four Mounted Men Take Crees Back to Canada
A late nineteenth century anecdote contrasts US and Canadian handling of Wood Cree Indians. Four Mounted Police, with a single accompanying kit, quietly escort 400 Crees back to Canada, proving diplomacy over force. The tale highlights grafty US politics versus trusted Canadian officers who kept treaties and honor.
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Montana
Canada
Sam
United States
Assiniboine
Poice
Northwest Mounted Police
Mounted
Wood Crees
Northwest Mounted
Canadian
The Name Josephine and Its Meaning in History
The article explains the name Josephine as a feminine form of Hebrew Joseph meaning “he shall add children.” It cites Joseph’s mother’s exclamation at his birth, “The Lord shall add to me another son.” It notes Josephine de Beauharnais (1768 1814), Napoleon I’s wife, famous for bearing no son, and suggests Napoleon’s divorce amid this irony.
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Josephine
Joseph
Eimbreas
France
Napoleon
Simple Summer Dresses Made At Home From Barbara Bell
This piece promotes home sewing for summer wear with two dress patterns featuring slim skirts puff sleeves and V necklines. It highlights fabrics like linen silk crepe and georgette plus ricrac braid trims and provides pattern numbers sizes yard requirements and a mail order call for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book from The Sewing Circle in Chicago.
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Ricrac
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Hubby Attempts a Bit of Back Seat Driving
A light domestic exchange features a husband advising his wife at the sewing machine. He worries the machine may run too fast and risk sewing the seam or finger. She questions his concern as he recalls years of running their car, then apologizes softly.
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Hubby
John
Learn How to Plan a Laxative Diet
Readers are invited to request a free bulletin by C. Houston Goudiss at 6 East 39th Street New York City. The pamphlet offers concrete tips for avoiding faulty elimination through proper eating habits, a list of laxative foods, and a week of sample menus.
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C. Houston Goudiss
East 39Th Street
New York City
Doilies Soon Done In Jiffy Crochet Pattern 1669
Doilies soon done in jiffy crochet pattern promises rapid results in three sizes. Heavy thread and four strands yield rich texture. patterns include stitches, materials, illustrations, and a photograph. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 62 Eighth Ave., New York.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Carlyle On Reality Love And The Infinite In The Finite
A compact reflection by Thomas Carlyle equating love in reality with a rational grasp of the infinite within the finite. The passage frames love as the discernment of the ideal made real rather than mere delirium.
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Thomas Carlyle
Bermuda's carless paradise blends history and calm
Island paradise since Shakespeare era, Bermuda is an archipelago famed for natural wonders and a unique rule. Generations of writers called them the Bermouthes. Modern visitors find no automobiles on island roads, as safety and anti noise campaigns are unnecessary because cars were banned years ago by island parliament.
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Bermuda
The Last Count by Emerson Quote Card
A compact quotation note presenting Ralph Waldo Emerson’s line about counting years only when a man has nothing left to count. It frames time, life, and wisdom in a brief reflective gem.
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Ralph W. Emerson
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Elizabeth James
Madison Square Garden
Hun
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Will
C. Houston Coudiss
Island Paradise
Frederick Palmer
Pinkham's
Lydia
Garfield
Gareld
Garfield Heidechs
Garfield Tea CO
Brocka
Navy Tobacco
J. D. Hobgood
Prince Albert
P. A
Conyriget
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