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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1922
Page
7
A New York Tribune fashion writer notes shifts toward sophisticated styles with long skirts and drapery, circular panels, one sided necklines, and evening gowns. Hats feature one sided trims, fur accents dominate this autumn, and Lanvin guides youthfulness in Paris.
Hairdressing plays a pivotal role in fashion history as Parisian styles push back hair to reveal ears. The 1921 winter trend wavers on day wear but shines at night with tinsel bands, rhinestones, brocades, and bejeweled accessories, offering artists’ designs to suit gowns and ensure tasteful complements.
Doctor Johnson authored the novel Ris sels to raise funds for his mother’s burial costs. The work appears as a literary effort aimed at covering funeral expenses and preserving family dignity despite loss.
For years druggists report Swamp Root by Dr Kilmer and Co as a physician prescribed strengthening medicine. It helps kidneys liver and bladder perform their duties. Sold by all druggists, with sample offer of ten cents by mail from Binghamton New York paper.
A concise aphorism lists four social varieties the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. It claims fools are the happiest among them in Taine style observation.
A Georgia pastor newly in charge of a large parish avoids an awkward public appeal by stammering over a women’s missionary meeting. He hesitates when he tries to say we the women of this congregation and finally retreats to a hymn. The anecdote comes from the Philadelphia Ledger.
Belgium shows near doubling of automobiles since the war with a car for every 230 inhabitants. The surge reflects rapid postwar motorization and rising private mobility across the country.
A lighthearted snippet notes Mr Flubdub’s persistent woes at the bridge table and jokes that his fate mirrors his golf habit, with every play leading to club trouble and inevitable missteps.
Ueywood Broun of the New York World critiques Harold G. Armstrong’s heroine Marion in For Richer, for being old fashioned. He notes Marion lets her hair down and kisses Kenneth Gramling, calling it a symbol of inhibited modernity. He argues a modern heroine would show hair up and inhibitions down.
A brief exchange about gratitude, a husband’s fondness for yachting, and a note on wealth earned from canned salmon during the war. The Owner’s Wife remarks the wealth gives a sense of owing the sea, while Life comments on how great minds stay easy in prosperity and quiet in adversity.
A couple on a Fifth avenue bus argued over where to alight, the man urging Forty-seventh Street while the woman, seated, declared her final plan for a farther south stop. The crowd leaned in, but her closing veto carried the moment.
The League of American Venwomen, a nationwide group of professional women writers, calls on its members to join a countrywide effort against disloyalty in any form including spoken or printed word.
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