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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
7
The article argues bathing suits have transformed from odd showy outfits to attractive, even stunning beachwear. It highlights a satin and taffeta striped ensemble with knickerbockers, a kimono bodice, daisies for decoration, ribbons, and coordinated accessories including a rubberized silk hat, cloth sandals, and silk hasp as a complete, faultless beach ensemble.
Designers of children's clothing showcase gingham dresses with organdy trims in cheerful colors. Dainty styles feature plaid and checked ginghams, organdy sashes, cuffs, and pearl buttons, with long sleeves and bias-cut panels for a seasonally popular look.
Samuel mourns Saul, then anointing David as successor in Bethlehem. God judges by the heart, not outward looks, guiding David from shepherd to king and highlighting youth’s possible leadership.
A reflective admonition argues misery arises from inward focus on self and desires. It warns that self centered thinking corrupts all you touch and turns blessings from God into sin and misery.
A pithy saying contrasts optimism and pessimism. The statement notes the world appears very good to believers and bad to skeptics, suggesting perspective shapes judgment without changing reality.
A reflection on love that arises without external cause or justification. The statement suggests emotional bonds form from internal impulse, not from identifiable actions or events by the beloved.
Advertises Allen's Foot Ease as an antiseptic powder to shake into shoes and foot baths to ease tight shoes. Claims wearers can use smaller sizes and enjoy lasting comfort, with wide distribution and a cheeky closing line about famous wives.
A saying notes that a hen that fusses over an egg is seldom a good layer. The maxims suggest behavior, not poultry performance, shaping beliefs about laying quality.
To insure glistening white table linens use Red Cross Ball Blue in your laundry. It never disappoints. At all good grocers five cents.
On the old Champion farm in Mercer county a 300 pound rock sits in the yard. Locals in their eighties recall tossing a small stone as boys and say the rock has grown since its infancy, a tale repeated by Wilmore Enterprise readers.
The chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry states the United States may soon grow all its own Smyrna figs. California’s progress is aided by free distribution of caprifigs from Loomis, kept as a caprifig orchard by the department.
Public schools in multiple states join the army recruitment drive with letters from pupils praising enlistment. A Ohio girl cites freedom from collectors, a Montana boy cites constitutional rights, an Illinois youth hopes for a soldier teacher, and an Indiana girl touts health and hardening benefits of service.
Weary Rhodes says he can pronounce all names on Pullman cars and teases Dreary Dan about being outdone. The exchange appears in the Houston Post as a light, humorous item.
A reflective remark asks about a person who would not seek money without labor, exploring attitudes toward effort and compensation.
Herbert M. Gessner of Berlin New Hampshire reports a decade of stomach trouble ended after using Eatonic. He describes severe pain prior to trying the remedy, then rapid relief after one third of a dose and complete freedom from pain after finishing the second box.
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