Longer Skirt Is Making Headway
A New York fashion writer notes spring shows favor longer silhouettes for evening gowns while daywear stays modest. Designers use draping, panels, and trains to vary lines, with bold colors returning and Paris openings hinting at upcoming styles from Martial et Armand and Cheruit.
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Paris
New York
New York Times
America
National Garment Retailers’ Fashion Show
Couturiers
Martial Et Armand
Cheruit
Simplicity in gowns marks spring fashion notes
The article surveys gowns from Cheruit and Martial et Armand, praising simple draping as the focal point. It describes Cheruit's all white satin gown with bead embroidery and martial et armand frock with velvet ribbons, silver underdress, purple accents, and hand embroidery, noting white as a spring trend.
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Cheruit
Martial Et Armand
Fringe trims dominate collars on new evening wraps
Chenile fringe two feet long drapes the collars of new evening wraps. The heavy fringe hangs so low it hides the garment material beneath.
Diamond Dyes promise easy home dyeing for all fabrics
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as safe for wool silk linen cotton and mixes claiming no spotting fading or running. It instructs buyers to tell their druggist fabric type and promises simple self dyeing with directions readable to any woman. The piece also notes Cuticura for pimples and mentions Bombay as the most densely populated city.
Women Need Swamp-Root Kidney Relief Ad
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble yet may not know it. Pain in the back headaches loss of ambition and nervousness can signal kidney disease. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root offered by drug stores with a sample bottle by mail from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
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Dr. Imer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Reformers Celebrate Births Amid High Prices
Detroit Free Press notes Dr. Hahnemann Morfit of Chicago, speaking to the Birth Control league, mocks reformers who oppose large families for themselves while praising births and twins as a sign of progress, cited through a fictional exchange about Bunker and George Evans.
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Hahnemann Morfit
Chicago
Birth Control League
Bunker
George Evans
Detroit Free Press
Latin American plants named for tanning material value
Government experts identify twelve woods 102 barks nine leaves three roots and seventeen fruits and seeds in Latin America as yielding tanning materials of industrial value.
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Latin America
Odd Street Gossip Delivers a Moral on Bills and Happiness
A lighthearted street exchange recalls a man who finds joy despite piled bills and rent raises by burning news and debt out of sight. In Glasgow a thief’s trick with a sign-board is recounted as a petty but witty lesson in cunning.
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George
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Glasgow
Bailie
Four Year Old Leonard Aims To Be A Daddy
A short amused family moment from Indianapolis News shows Leonard a four year old boy from Wair mount answering what he will be when grown up. He says he will be a daddy. The family visited his grandmother and stopped for shoe shines in Marlon.
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Aryl Wilson
Milwaukee
Wis
Eagle Brand
Leonard
Marlon
Indianapolis News
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Margaret Wilson
Eighth Street
Milwaukee, Wis
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Borden Company
Borden
New York, N. Y
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Grand Canyon
Postum
Postum Cereal Co., Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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