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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
7
New York fashion notes urge women to add a separate top coat or coat suit to indoor outfits. Velour and satin frocks share space with tailored jackets, basques, and short coats as designers push for versatile, dressy daytime wear for seven months of the year.
The article notes velour evolving from imperfect beginnings into a costly yet stylish fabric with artistic colorings. Burgundy and copper tones stand out as the season’s rich dyes, while top coats dominate outerwear. Designers warn skirts and hems must complement heavy frocks to avoid exposure in windy weather.
An article reviews Stephen Graham's Through Russian Central Asia describing how Russian colonists plant shade trees, build homes with willow framework, and cultivate desert land to take root beside military expansion. It contrasts colonization with railways and notes Central Asia’s settlement by patient farmers.
Nell chides that declining a suitor makes a proposal hard to resist a man. Belle counters that other girls chatter should not be trusted and suggests brushing off advances. The exchange captures social pressures in courtship and wit.
A minister's son Lewis watched as his father pastor preached on tight skirts. On a Sunday he tried to alert him by waving and pointing at two ladies entering the church. Unable to gain attention he exclaimed Look quick, father, there's two awful wobbles in the aisle.
A humorous exchange in the Washington Star has Bronco Bob chastising a young man in a new cowboy uniform for not carrying a gun, joking that he expected at least a pair. The article also notes the largest meteorite stone known to have fallen weighs 640 pounds.
A satirical piece questions the notion of the gentleman farmer and mocks doctors who profit from illness. It notes the meaning of the letters E P N S on teapots as electro plate or nickel silver and critiques pretension in rural manners.
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