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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1913
Page
7
The piece urges better dress standards for girls and advises mothers to be authoritative. It outlines coordinated outfits including tailored coats, matching skirts, hair blouses, and lace or embroidery details. It notes growing popularity of silk and chiffon blouses and simple frocks in lightweight wools and serge.
The article describes youth fashion with semi fitted youthful lines and dark blue wool poplin street frock. It highlights a jacket with shawl revers fastened by a button and a velvet collar over a peplum, plus a corduroy girlish model with braid trim.
The piece describes summer velvet hats as economical for women, adaptable to cold weather, and useful between seasons. Hats are lightweight with canvas frames and soft crowns lined with china silk or canton flannel. Trimming is restrained with wings or ribbons enhancing small shapes that sit high on the head.
The article outlines fichus with varied cuffs and collar designs including De Medici collars, pleated nets and laces, and long pleated edges. It notes corset cover guimpes, guimpes with different neck shapes, evening chiffons with beaded accents, and bows and butterflies as decorative touches. Vestees in satin and silk offer single or double breasted options with contrasting piping.
Fashion notes describe frock guimpes with shadow laces in white and ecru, bright handkerchiefs, and new art combinations. Long sleeves and low necks appear in feminine blouses for summer, with cotton velvets and wraps in soft pile colors. New blouses feature yokes and full back and front waists.
Do not wash real lace as it damages it. Clean by placing between tissue layers with powdered magnesia, then press under a heavy weight in a book for three to four days. Shake out the powder and the lace appears clean and like new.
A special committee led by Dr Henry Barton Jacobs announces the exact proportions of the double red cross tuberculosis emblem to be standardized in the United States. The design features equal length cross-arms with units defined as width one unit and specific measurements for each arm and spacing. The standard applies to all sizes across organizations handling tuberculosis.
A wide awake minister visits a neighborhood for the first time. His explosive sermons unsettle a dog in the front pew who howls at each blow of the sermon. Laughter erupts as the preacher ends with the remark that the dog may have a call to preach but this is his appointment.
At a Paris birthday banquet a prominent financier proposed a joke to recover a missing pearl necklace. A salver was placed in the room and lights were extinguished for a thief to restore the necklace, but when lights returned the salver had disappeared.
A dialogue features Senator Sorghum defending frequent quotations from classics. He argues Latin and Greek feel safe because they are not understood, preventing misinterpretation.
A notice notes Berlin plans a building with fifty sound proof rooms for music teachers and students. Other items mention Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops 5e and Birs Winslow's Syrup for Children teething 25c a bottle with various claimed benefits.
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