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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1921
Page
7
A fashion feature outlines evening frocks with full skirts, fur trims, and velvet beaded details. It notes slim daytime silhouettes, vast cape coats, and varied fur and fabric combinations, highlighting satin, georgette, crepe satin, and abundant beading for grand events.
A vintage home cook’s page offers tuna fish salad with gelatine molds, sponge pudding, Baltimore pudding, Hermits cookies, and a lettuce salad. It also features Florida Orange Sticks with orange glaze and filling, molded rice with orange segments, and a quip from Jud Tunkins.
Albert E. Hutchings known as Bert Hutchings served as general chairman of the third annual national convention of the American Legion in Kansas City. He organized city advertising, led Rotary and Automobile clubs, and played a key role in civic progress. Hutchings organized a Seventh Missouri National Guard company and served in the motor transport corps during wartime, commanding headquarters motor command No. 96.
The American Legion Weekly warns that fake promoters prey on sympathy for ex-service men by running money-raising campaigns under borrowed or ambiguous names. They form groups, misstate funds used, and shield promoters with bogus accounting. The Legion urges public caution and to seek the Legion’s endorsement before supporting unemployed veterans’ relief efforts.
Miss Honorah Sue Gittings of San Francisco is the first woman named state adjutant of the American Legion. She earned the post during World War I after joining the Navy as a yeomanette in 1917.
William Jennings Bryan declares support for a veterans bonus with flexible options cash land insurance or other choices. He urges funding from wartime profiteers if possible but asserts justice requires payment regardless of source.
Clarence W. Seymour of Hartford resigns from the Connecticut Senate to accept the commander role of the Connecticut Department of the American Legion. A Yale graduate, he served in the Connecticut Cavalry, on the Mexican border, Plattsburg camp, and in France with the 118th Held artillery, Thirty First Division, later joining the 1921 general assembly military committee.
Mrs Rose F Taylor a longtime Lac fay ette Post member and the only policewoman among New York City ranks served a front line role in war, joining a hospital unit in July 1917 and serving twenty months in France at Savenay and front with mobile hospital No 10. A graduate nurse from Port Grace Hospital she leads a bureau to locate lost girls and inspects dance halls cinemas and other venues where they are found.
Mrs Amy Robbins Ware of Robbinsdale Minnesota a World War I army nurse was chosen as state vice commander at the Minnesota Legion convention in Winona arriving by air. She and Mr International Falls served together in the Argonne forest and she is the third generation to serve as war nurse following her mother and grandmother in the Civil War era. While in France she wrote a book titled Relators of France which has been praised.
In New York City the Hanedlight unit of the American Legion relies on 1 percent publicity men among 11 000 posts across the U S and 14 foreign countries. Notable actors who died in France influenced membership seekers while a 35 member general meeting plans a stellar event. The 89 publicity men run the fundraising for charity as William Deegan, New York state commander, cannot attend but sends a representative aboard a plane from New York to Providence piloted by Bert Costa covering 100 miles in 10 miles.
Writings and paintings by Nipponese statesmen fetched high prices at a Tokyo Pine Arts Club auction. Hara works led selling near 600 dollars, others 250 to 800. Price-Wanagata pieces and Saionji proverb writings also commanded substantial sums. Prices for Noda chrysanthemum painting and an orchid example ranged 70 to 400 dollars.
Drugstore reports show many people suffer kidney trouble without knowing it. Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root is praised for its mild healing effects and high success. A life insurer noted kidney disease is common and causes many insurance rejections. Swamp Root is available in two bottle sizes at drugstores or a sample bottle can be requested by sending ten cents to Kilmer Co.
A youth with a sweet tooth asks what a dime can buy at a drug store candy counter. The clerk hesitates before presenting the case. the youth samples a piece, recalling boyhood days when a single cent bought similar treats.
A vintage ad touts California Fig Syrup as a universal cure for constipated children. It promises quick cleansing of liver and bowels, noting a teaspoonful revives a listless or sick child and urges mothers to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup with bottle directions for all ages.
A humorous dialogue explores gendered talk and restraint in conversation. One speaker mocks women for monopolizing talk while the other pretends to propose marriage, prompting witty back and forth about propriety and listening.
The Louisville Courier Journal summarizes a scene where Algernon declares the end of engagement to a woman who reveals she married Mr Flubtab yesterday. He responds that he will release her if true.
A suburban resident showcases a lawn mower dial that logs mileage in feet. The inventor reports pushing the mower 20 000 feet this summer, compared with neighbors at 10 000. The aim is to gauge usage before sharpening knives.
The fragment references a dialog about bicycle riding on a sidewalk with a defiant boy. notes the first steamboat in the United States sailed the Hudson in 1807, anchoring historical context from The Echo.
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