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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1936
Page
3
Virginia Ler urges sympathy for middle aged widows while advising legal counsel and self sufficiency. She cautions against self pity and notes a widow’s entitlement to a third of her husband’s estate, urging resilience and practical steps amid family conflicts.
In Paris fashion notes flaring hems dominate, with pencil slim slits and tunic overlays. Daywear blends broad shoulders and short sleeves echoing 1986 trends, while accessories include a brown soleil turban, brown pumps, and honey gloves. A vivid green wool crepe frock features a released skirt, antelope girdle, and festive sleeves.
Dear Miss Glad: I favor face masks and heard barley flour can be used. A mask is made by mixing rosewater with half a cup barley flour into a thick paste. Cleanse skin first, apply around eyes and mouth, dry completely, then rinse with tepid water. Dry skin may need cold cream after removal.
A reflective poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox about aging, memory, and enduring friendship. The speaker urges quiet, tender companionship as life dims and mortality nears, noting love grows stronger as days shorten and friends become fewer.
A Florence era household menu notes no potatoes for women guests, proposing rice pudding as dessert and featuring stuffed grapefruit with chili dressing, rice date pudding, and decorative rayon bedspreads as a separate topic. The piece blends culinary guidance with fashion hints and shopping ideas from cookware to textiles.
The readable text offers a garbled description of decorative fabrics and furniture preferences, mentioning walnut furnishings and informal patterns, but lacks coherent events, names, or dates to form a full news item. The fragment cannot be reliably interpreted beyond noting stylistic furniture choices.
A prominent American film actor is quoted in a British magazine claiming acting requires little training and ability. The piece notes trick photography aids a title and suggests a winter pastime for guests, with a dig at a finicky eater.
A humorous guide suggests using a paper in a hot oven to gauge heat levels and offers a blindfolded nose test to distinguish onions from apples. It proposes extending the tastetest to beef and mutton, noting four basic tastes. The piece closes with a quip about happiness and women.
A reader letters discuss pledge signing after a Dr Myers article on abstaining from liquor. They urge intensive education, liquor ad restrictions, and public school materials like Alcohol Talks to Youth. Fashions note wool frocks and new Chinese yellow evening bags for black gowns.
Dr Logan Clendening reflects on his dying dog and the lessons learned about digestion and meat eating. He argues dogs show carnivorous traits with short digestive tracts, comparing canine and human digestion to justify meat consumption. The piece blends personal sentiment with early 20th century dietary musings.
The article presents fashion notes on a peplum rayon crepe dress with scalloped edges and crushed collar, highlighting flared skirts and wide shoulders. It also includes reader questions about hair growth serums and baldness treatments, noting limited success of pituitary extract and offering Dr. Clendening pamphlets for readers.
Alice Rice Cook former college dean opens a diagnostic service in New York to study individuals' personal adequacy the key to obtaining and keeping work and relationships Clients are evaluated like patients with expert opinions from both sexes and even friends consulted to reveal unseen factors The program stems from a Teachers College study stressing personal adequacy over technical skill.
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