One Piece Frocks Spark Wide Fashion Wave
In a broad trend from coast to coast women embrace a one piece chemise style with straight hangs and minimal waist definition. Satin crepe georgette and supple fabrics dominate, with evening and daytime versions featuring Belgian hare trim, gold threads, and beadwork. Handbags in velvet satin and beaded embroidery complement the look, with prices ranging from modest to high as labor costs push upscale bags.
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Maine
California
Fashionable bags trend in 1910s style accessories
The article highlights three types of handsome bags in fashionable colors with bands of Hudson seal, silk and fur or satin embroidery, and long crepe ends with silver ornaments. It notes bags as the season’s fad, with prices from under $5 for bead-embellished options to higher costs for elaborate beadwork and satin velvet combinations.
Crochet fashion aids soldiers and soft hats rise
In wartime spirit readers craft for troops in Europe with scarves and mufflers featuring broad fringed ends and crocheted hats with flower accents. Almond meal recommended for tender hands while castor oil remains unchanged by cold.
Emulate the abstemious Red Man and reduce the high cost of living
Doctor Samuel G Dixon urges frugality in food as prices soar. He cites Iroquois eating habits and warns overeating leads to health risks. He advises smaller portions, slower eating, hydration, and understanding nutritional values to curb waste and disease amid rising costs.
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Samuel G. Dixon
Pennsylvania
Candy for the Children in Education and Homemade Treats
The article outlines homemade candy ideas using dates and nuts, explains fondant preparation, and details methods for pink and wintergreen candy, gumdrops, nut brittle, and peanut candy. It gives step by step instructions with measurements and cooling times for improvised sweets.
Candy Making Fragments From A Recipe Note
A fragment describes combining white and brown sugar with water to the soft ball stage, adding soda, then mixing in nuts. The instruction ends with dropping spoonfuls on a buttered surface before baking.
Sweetest Girl of All and a Mother’s Memory
An old fragment captures a boy’s heartfelt longing for his mother and a lost love, recalling tenderness, fear, and nostalgia. He relives a deep bond, longs to hear her voice, and dreams of being with her again, pressed by memory and time.
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Timi
Star of the Movies Adel in The Scarlet Recent Release
Adel stars in The Scarlet latest film world premiere draws attention from critics and fans alike as industry insiders spotlight his performance and the movie's anticipated box office impact.
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Adel
The
Who
High Cost of Flags Hits the United States
In Washington reports that flag production costs soar with cotton and dye shortages. Woolen flags rise about 70 percent as cotton flags gain favor. Copeland, head of M. G. Copeland Co., warns patriot demand for flags persists despite price pressures.
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The
United States
Ashington
Mara
Deaters
Copeland
Akes
Roundup of Global Trade Oddities and Local Notes
A scrambled worldwide snippet covers irrigation progress in Spain, a century of practices for Hore Han, and the Nascent Missin-Ameris chamber of commerce branches in Blof and Odessa. It notes wooden shoe production in the Netherlands thriving since the war, and a Providence barber shop with five barbers averaging twenty years’ service. The piece ends with a quip on simple language and a politician’s blunt reply about swallowing words.
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Spain
Iss
Manchester
N. Th
Wis
Hie
Missiin-Ameris Fut Chamber of Commerce
Odessa
Netherlands
Wa Quinn
Bette
Germany
Autys
Napoleon Loiseli
Mr ii Misha
Misha
Hunters Fight Cold in Alaska Wilderness
In Alaska, hunters face extreme cold while pursuing game. The narrative describes how hunters avoid overheating, conserve energy, and keep moving to survive long treks in harsh winter conditions. The piece highlights cautionary steps used to prevent death from hypothermia and exhaustion.
Hairpin Shortage Spurs War Era Fashion Woes
War era scarcities ripple through daily life as women must bring their own hairpins for dressed hairdos. Unclear trade flows and coal supply anxieties frame a broader economic question of energy sources and industrial shift impacting fabrics, electricity, and wool production.
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Belug
Unusual Time Keeping by Indigenous Guide in Snow
An Indian guide uses shadows and stick angles to judge travel time, while a Canadian Montaznis traces a leader's ahead path by shadow shifts. The passage references historical figures and colonial assemblies, noting methods and anticipation of arrival based on celestial signs and shadow lengths.
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Canada
New Inventions And Quips From The Era
A roundup of early 20th century curios and ideas including a ring-wing airplane self-righting after capsizing a dry cell coast guard flashlights a folding envelope tablet a lighter dryer pastry and four temperature electric iron a shoe lining pocket patent and wheat width rules in Italy. It also notes copper conductivity copper purity aviation school in China and Thames sediment flow plus light quips about language stockpiles and coastal trades.
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United States Coast Guard
Italy
Philippines
Capri
Paraguay
Quebracho
First-Aid Girl Pupils Stun Jimmie in Class Tale
A chaotic first aid lesson in Washington centers on Jimmie, a shy messenger boy whose growing body and nerves spark comic confusion. Anxious classmates, a doctor, and a nurse trigger a farcical scene as Jimmie endures a role as a wounded patient while learning bandaging.
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Navy League
Washington
Jimmie
Fleytuld
Dinthin
Mary
Hattis
Doughnut table lore of the District cabinet origin
In a humorous tale Louis Brownlow and Louis Newman, newspaper men, use a downtown hotel to scheme about governance. A round table becomes central as figures like Gen George Morrles gather. doughnuts and butter confuse judgment, leading to a playful origin of the District cabinet.
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Louis Brownlow
Rf Newman
Tuncheon
Round Table
George T. Morrles
Messrs
Urewnton
Newnan
Louis
Olle
Thie
Meg
Nfe
Tse
District of Columbia
George H. Harries
Loute
Commissioner Brownlow
Ani
Lattis
Lle Mey
Stinut
Stolen Hotel Items Returned From Washington Hotels
Damaged OCR text reports rising thefts from Washington hotels with guests returning articles to managers. A Washington hotel says annual losses average around ten thousand dollars in silverware and room goods. Over two weeks, more than fifty packages from the United States and Canada arrived containing hotel property, yet none included clues or explanations.
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Ashington
Washington
United States
Canada
Brazil 1922 Independence Centenary and Other Items
Brazil's independence centenary will occur in 1922. New Jersey factories employ 232000 workers. Atlanta raises 12000 for Boy Scouts. Phonograph record speed averages 1.82 miles per hour. Mrs M J Crocker, 87, learns lace making in Los Angeles. J C Nickerson of Pittsfield wears an overcoat bought 55 years ago. American moteum factory competition declines Scotland's exports. Tobin Britt, 91, walks entire preparedness parade in Providence. Three deposits of coal in Haiti investigated by French engineers with development plans underway.
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Brazil
New Jersey
Atlanta
M. J. Crocker
Los Angeles
J. C. Nickerson
Pittsfield
Mass
Scotland
Tobin Britt
Berkeley
Providence
Haiti
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Veteion
Jess
Neuiunitic
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Elsepringfeld
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Ument
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