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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1935
Page
7
Fashion notes describe new worsted arrivals ahead of spring for suits and ensembles. Swank color schemes and versatile weaves dominate, with slim tailored suits and topcoats in navy and oxford gray, plus checks, plaids, and novelty weaves creating coordinated outfits.
The piece advises wearing velvet to look luxurious including velvet turbans, velvet hats, fur collar ensembles, pill box hats with rhinestones and veils, and velvet afternoon bags trimmed with rhinestones mirrors or ornaments. It emphasizes velvet as a key fashion flourish for a stylish look.
Fashion notes emphasize stylish tunics that combine elegance with everyday practicality. Descriptions highlight elaborate fabrics, rhinestones, and spangles with jeweled fronts and draped necks to enhance evening dresses.
The article notes frothy net dresses featuring heavy necklines shoulders and hem lines with capes sometimes. Colors favored are black turquoise pink brown and peach in order of popularity.
The article notes sport sweaters adopt simple classic silhouettes with soft yarns and unusual pastel tones reflecting a distinct English influence on conformation and design.
Charlie Diamond follows a patrol wagon to Chinatown where five dead Chinese lie on Pell and Mott as Li Sung Moy and his wife Blanche are found dead or dying. He recalls their past in a tale of show business, addiction, and a long awaited reunion as he heads to pawnshops for diamonds.
A crocheted rug titled Nursery Blocks uses small color blocks joined and bordered to 33 by 50 inches with about 5 pounds of rag strip material. Blocks can be made in any size and color scheme. full instructions plus 25 other rug patterns available in Rug Book No. 25 sent postpaid for 15 cents. Home Craft Co. Dept CG St. Louis MO.
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls asafetida bags once common in one room schoolhouses. The piece notes their strong garlic-like odor, the social mark on wearers, and the shift to modern health aids and air conditioned classrooms, preserving a hint of sentiment for old practices.
A fragment notes Mary sighs and perhaps longs for bygone times when she wore an asa fetida bag, reflecting nostalgia in a brief Boston Herald style snippet.
An Englishwoman in Siam describes a Chinese dinner with no plates or cutlery, diners sharing a central dish while a china spoon and individual bowls served soup. The menu includes crab fritters, shark’s fin soup, pigeon soup, roasted duck skin, stews with mushrooms, turtle soup, baked fish, rice, rich custard, fresh fruit, jelly, and China tea in plain bowls. Hot scented cloths are circulated before and after the meal.
ACentury old advertisement claims Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the original liver and bowel regulator from sixty years ago. The copy promotes internal cleansing and digestive benefits with no modern medical claims.
A reflection encourages balance between wealth and priceless values. The quotation by Dr. G H Lorimer reminds readers to reassess what money cannot buy and value intangible riches beyond possessions.
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