New ideas from knit crochet realm for spring wardrobes
The piece urges knitters and crocheters to begin mid season projects like a sunning blouse with rolled collar and bib front, a fringe frock, a frilled robot front, and chic accessories. It highlights popcorn stitch hats and mercerized lace gloves, plus Paris shawl scarves with matching hats for resort wear. Western Newspaper Union.
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Paris
Chic Bird Print By Cherie Nicholas
The new prints are original and unusual patterns. Flying bird motifs appear in navy silk designs with white bodices and bright colored heads, creating a striking dinner suit effect.
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Chic
Cherie Nicholas
Sandals and Silk Gowns Describe Cruise Fashion
Silk dresses in white pastels or gay prints top luncheons and cruises. White linen patent or suede sandals complete travel wardrobes and look graceful. A shoe store offers corsage kid sandals in delicate flowered designs for gala cruises and formal events.
Slim Silhouette Defines Roger Worths New Dress Line
A stemlike silhouette marks the new fashions from Roger Worth the dressmaker leader and founder’s great grandson. Day frocks and coats feature slender lines with occasional large sleeves to balance the straight narrow skirts. Afternoon gowns in satin crepe or faconne silk use high necklines and gold touches including embroidery tassels gold loops and gold coin accents.
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Roger Worth
Elegant tea-time blouse description and styling
The tea-time blouse is described in varied fabrics such as brocade metal cloth chiffon and silk. It typically follows a tunic style and pairs with a velvet skirt or a plain cloth suit skirt.
Tall Tales The Permanent Wave Gland
Prospect local device claims to create a permanent wave for hair by a gland fluid from a pig tail. Lester Green and his wife reportedly achieved lasting curls that resist rain and improve with washing. The inventor envisions use in bed spring manufacturing but has not patented the method.
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Prospect
Conn
Carl Louis Morrison
Waterbury
Republican
Morrison
Lester Green
A Quilt Pattern for Sunbonnet Babies by Grandmother Clark
Package No. 575 offers eight 9 inch sunbonnet baby blocks plus seven plain blocks for a 87 by 54 inch quilt. Includes stamped blocks on white material with actual size quilting design and border instructions. Sent postpaid for 25 cents from Home Craft Co Dept D St Louis MO.
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Home Craft Co
Dept. D
Nineteenth and
St. Louis Ave
St. Louis
Missouri
Old Storm Along and the Soap-Slick Dover Channel Tale
Cap'n John from Marblehead recalls the Courier under Old Storm Along sailing the Atlantic. A storm near Calais and Dover had the crew washing the ship with soap to keep her from foundering, leaving Dover cliffs white with soap and the channel still foam-flecked from that ride.
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Cap’n John
Marblehead
English Channel
Calais
Dover
Old Storm
Blue Trim Boosts Home Charm Across U S
Homes in the United States are adopting blue exterior trim inspired by Mexican superstition against the devil. The trend blends cultural motif with practical curb appeal as owners choose blue for accents to deter evil and refresh appearances.
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Mexico
United States
When You See a Wimpuss WIMPUSS Then You Survive
A quirky Y2K era tale from editor Austin Butcher of the Altoona Kansas Tribune describes a mythical animal the wimpuss. It allegedly dwells in treetops, attacks travelers, and is killed by a cheese tactic and a waterlogged tail knot.
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Wimpuss
Austin Butcher
Altoona
Kan
Wim Puss
Hyde Park’s Transformation From Forest to Fashionable Park
Hyde Park in London grew from a dense Henry VIII era forest with wild boars to a premier city park. It spans about three miles and 361 acres with Marble Arch’s level ground hosting public speeches. Rotten Row offers a mile and a half horseback ride, once named Roughten's Rue. Kensington Gardens link to the park, and Park Lane borders its mansions.
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Hyde Park
London
Marble Arch
Rotten Row
Roughten
Lord Roughten
Kensington Gardens
Park Lane
Two Separate Powers One to Produce One to Advertise
The article argues talent needs two distinct powers producing high quality work and promoting it to those who can use it. Few people combine both abilities, so great gifts often stay hidden and society misses their benefits.
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