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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1925
Page
14
Miss Margaret Brown of State College spoke to a large YWCA audience on fashion and dress silhouettes. She advised choosing lines that suit each figure, avoiding wide stripes, and selecting fabrics and colors to flatter height, shape, and movement.
A brief note explains dyeing methods using Diamond Dyes. Readers are guided to dip fabrics to tint or boil to dye, outlining simple steps for home use and expected results.
A vintage advertisement touts a .15-cent Diamond Dyes package with simple directions for tinting and dyeing fabrics such as lingerie, silks, ribbons, dresses, and more. It instructs buyers to tell their druggist the material type wool silk linen cotton or mixed to ensure proper results.
Miss Doddridge introduced a dressmaking speaker who shared valuable points on the art. The event featured Miss Irma Donathen in charge of a dress goods exhibit supplied by New Castle Dry Goods, with extension work in Butler and Lawrence counties.
Erie faced extreme weather with five inches of snow and half an inch of rain, winds up to 50 mph, and temperatures from 32 to 42 degrees. Rail and telegraph services were disrupted from Buffalo to Cleveland, with trains running an hour late. Silver Creek, New York, saw motorists snowed in until improvements.
Henry Ford outlined plans to build small all metal dirigibles for the navy. C B Fritchie, head of Ford Aircraft Development Corp, presented the plan to Secretary Wilbur in Washington. Ford proposed rapid, low cost production shortly after the Shenandoah crash.
A Central News dispatch from Athens reports Greek forces advanced five miles into Bulgarian territory and seized the city of Petrich, marking a significant development in the confrontation between Greece and Bulgaria.
Phillips Milk of Magnesia sold in 26 cent and 50 cent bottles with directions for use as prescribed by physicians for sixty years as an antacid laxative and corrective.
The ad promises a graceful figure by increasing red blood with 8 8 S S. It claims thin people can fill out their clothes, gain appetite and vigor, and improve skin. It urges buying larger bottles from drug stores to support natural red blood cell production.
New York October 22 Mr and Mrs James P Donahue testified before the grand jury about the theft and return of 683000 dollars worth of jewels from their Hotel Plaza suite The jewels were returned for a 65000 dollar cash reward The robbery ranks among New Yorks biggest and the circumstances surrounding the return are among the strangest faced by authorities.
Paris reports looming price hikes in bread and wine due to good harvests but gluten issues and sunless vines. Costs for shoes tissues and clothing rise 6 to 20 percent amid higher taxes and materials. Public seeks a downward shift but awaits new reasons.
An unsettling feature notes a person who leans from a canoe edge and peers downward may fall from an airplane if he continues the risky habit. The piece uses a cautionary tone about dangerous curiosity and exposure.
A Pennsylvania woman credits Sorbol Quadruple Liniment with relief from goitre after 14 years of growth. She reports rapid improvement after three days of use, addressing choking palpitations headaches and nervousness, and notes she has not been bothered since. Sold by Sorbol Company Mechanicsburg Ohio with local Paisley’s Pharmacy.
Washington dispatch reports Speaker Lee Satterwhite intimates a Texas special session may be called to investigate alleged irregularities in road contract lettings. He avoids detailed comments due to quasi judicial duties. He cites charges that large sums of state money were wasted.
A historical note describes disabling old fashioned cannons by driving spikes into their touch holes or muzzles to render them inoperable. The account highlights simple field methods used to prevent misuse or capture of artillery.
The text explains spiking a cannon by driving an iron spike into the breech to disable the gun and prevent enemy use. It notes spiking was often temporary and that the term survives in modern military language to mean breaking or removing part of the breech, making the gun unusable without major repair.
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