Pretty Hats for Midsummer and Simplicity in Junior Styles
A 1920s style feature by Julia Bottomley describes midsummer millinery trends emphasizing large black and pink hats with rhinestone accents and velvet trims, plus airy visca styles and sailor shapes. It notes simplification in children's wraps and dresses, the jumper frock trend, and the use of white and pastel colors with minimal trimming.
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Georgette
Boost the Old Town to Raise Pride and Growth
An editorial advocates studying other towns to adopt proven methods, organizing local resources and goodwill, and actively promoting the town to outsiders. It urges citizens to unite as a patriotic duty, match external advertising with local gains, and boost the town to inspire pride and economic dividends.
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Old Town
Kansas City Times
Carelessness of City Visitors in Rural Areas Criticized
An editorial from The Outlook laments city crowds harming rural beauty. It describes trash strewn along highways, broken fences, and ruined blooms as visitors overlook dignity of clean earth. The piece urges urban visitors to respect country landscapes.
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Eliles
Outlook
Concrete Walks and Drives Add Charm to Homes
Walks and driveways built of concrete enhance home appearance and reduce mud tracking. Build them when the home goes up to save on contractor time, materials, and overall costs while keeping surfaces light gray and attractive.
Trees Not for Streets
It argues against using rapid-growing trees for street planting noting they are short-lived weak-wooded and dangerous. It lists Silver maple Box elder Western catalpa willows European ash birch Carolina poplar and tulip tree as examples.
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Western Catalpa
Stable Manure A Breeding Ground For House Flies
The article describes house flies as common carriers of typhoid fever and diarrheal bacilli. It explains their transportation between germ incubators and dining rooms and notes the flies breed prolifically in stable manure, with a pair capable of many millions of offspring in a season.
Make Home Beautiful Without Costly Ornaments
It doesn not cost more to beautify a home than to keep it ugly. A well proportioned house looks fine without scroll-saw ornaments or fancy roofs. Your local architect can help solve these problems and consulting him will pay.
The Kitchen Cabinet Food Notes and Desserts
A collection of home cooking tips and recipes featuring sour cream dressings salted mushrooms and fruit based desserts. It includes methods for sweet and savory dishes such as grape Bavarian cornmeal custards date nut pineapple salads and peach ice cream flavors with step by step guidance.
Fewer Horses on U S Farms in 1926 Report
The January 1 1926 Department of Agriculture report shows 23 558 000 horses and mules on U S farms a 3 percent drop from 1925 The total includes 2 000 000 for industrial work or other uses and notes a decline since the previous year.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Cuticura Advertises Soap and Ointment for Baby Skin
The advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap for hot baths and Cuticura Ointment to soothe red rough itching skin. It also suggests using a dusting powder and mentions Cuticura Talcum as part of the indispensable toilet trio.
Oh You Won’t Take My Girl Home Tonight
A dramatic roadside exchange between a husband and a young man ends with shock as the husband declares possession over the woman and objects to an evening date. The scene unfolds with comic miscommunication and a tense confrontation.
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Willus
Compensation and gifts spark birthday memory inquiry
A wife recalls a birthday present exchange and notes the other party never covers bills for alts, hinting at financial tensions and unpaid costs in the relationship.
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Offers Gentle Regularity
Mon ticello physician Dr W R Caldwell after 47 years practice criticised harsh laxatives and developed Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to regulate bowels in the elderly. The preparation promises gentle movements without griping and is advertised as harmless and pleasant, with a 60 cent bottle for those past fifty.
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W. R. Caldwell
Monticello
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