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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
6
A refined spring dress trend emphasizes tasteful design over extremes. The featured foulard dress shows a straight medium width skirt with a tunic edged in velvet, a plain blouse bodice with elbow sleeves, organdy lace chemisette, and tiny pearl buttons.
A dressy model in dark blue twilled cloth uses white silk braid and crepe de chine accents. The one piece skirt features a diagonal open seam and vertical braid detailing on the skirt and coat. A second suit offers practical lines with widened hips and a close front coat.
Frank Comerford argues war hardened soldiers return changed and feel able to force demands, amid labor unrest and profiteering. He connects training in the army to a willingness to use force, critiques direct action, and links high living costs, wage decline, and profiteering to postwar discontent across Europe and the United States.
Col. William Barclay Parsons, who led the eleventh engineers to aid Haig, wrote to the executive committee chaired by Nicholas Murray Butler that the destruction of the Louvain library by German forces was the greatest of Teuton crimes in Belgium. The statement cites evidence of deliberate destruction beyond military necessity.
Berlin announces prosecution of German subjects for offenses against hostile aliens in Germany and abroad during the war and up to June 29 this year. The attorney general will pursue crimes abroad if punishable where committed. A general procedure bill has been submitted to the national assembly, allowing relatives of the injured to file as complainants.
Thrift Magazine advises visitors to bring cheer to the sick room and avoid sympathy that underscores the patient’s helplessness. A paralyzed man asked a friend to stop expressing sorrow and instead share news from outside to lift his spirits. Flowers and reading material are suggested as helpful comforts.
Investigation of stores of crystallized honey in Pennsylvania where bees died of starvation yielded rare sugar melezitose. It has been extracted and purified and sent to the bureau of chemistry. The department of agriculture notes melezitose is extremely rare and previously available only in minute quantities to scientists. The United States department now possesses several kilograms for study.
A gentleman admires college buildings funded by wealthy alumni and a hall bearing a memorial plaque. He muses aloud to his wife that he would like to do the same for his college, but his wife responds coldly, revealing a strained moment in their relationship.
A statement notes a likely large turnout of town boys eager to visit the farm. The remark suggests strong local interest in rural exposure and educational trips.
Customer letters hail Peterson's Ointment for eczema and itching piles with reports of complete relief after long suffering. A Pittsburgh woman notes head sores cured, while Racine donor says itching piles disappeared. Advertising claims include old sores salt rheum and chafing.
At 3 am a couple wake to a downstairs break in. John pursues the intruder and a shootout ends with a window break. The burglar is found later and all he had was 60 cents in small change.
A stage manager jokes with his property man about a misheard cue asking for a window or a widow. The manager laughs and explains that when near either, he always looks out, turning a punchline on a homophone into a short theatre quip.
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