War Makes New York World’s Richest City Beauty Spending
New York is portrayed as the richest city due to money spent on women’s beauty. The piece reports daily beauty routines in Turkish baths and salons, with costs from $2.50 to $50 per visit and yearly upkeep claims of large sums. It highlights counts of daily patrons and vast shoe wardrobes as expenses mount for cosmetics, lashes, and wigs.
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New York
Dah McGlone
Gibson
Sherry
Bath
Costa
Manhattan
Jim Brady
Middle West
Fifth Ave
Ada
Choice
Indianola Beach offer promises Seattle summers by the Sound
Promoters tout Indianola Beach near Seattle as a premier summer camp site with a 991 foot wharf and a hard sand beach. Wooded tracts, cedar and fir forests, and wild flora accompany large frontages from 40 feet. Prices start at $40 with easy terms and weekly visits planned, urging inspection and early purchase.
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Indianola
Puget Sound
Indianola Beach
Lillico Landing
Madison
Spring Sts
Seattle
Confessions of a Wife Letter From Across the Ocean
A correspondent aboard a yacht on the Indian Ocean writes to Mrs. Waverly about her accident, offering contrite farewells and musings on fate. He recalls a jade talisman, believes a superstition may link their luck, and promises another message from afar.
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Mrs. Waverly
Indian Ocean
Malcom Stuart Letter Reflected as Comfort In Illness
A narrator addresses a reader about a letter from Malcolm Stuart far away. The note offers emotional solace amid long confinement. The writer mentions discarding a small jade dream figurine by a river, then hints the tale will continue.
Cargo Removed From Kenkon Maru Wreck
The cargo of the steamer Kenkon Maru wrecked on Belle Chain reef has been taken from the hold. It includes 4,800 tons of knocked down box cars steel rails barbed wire bolts and spikes. Salvage work will commence now.
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Belle Chain Reef
Cocoanut Oil Shampoo Ad Promotes Greaseless Clean
A vintage ad touts plain cocoanut oil as a superior hair wash. It warns standard soaps and shampoos are alkaline and drying, while coconut oil gives rich lather with minimal use, cleansing scalp and hair without residue. It claims the oil leaves hair soft, shiny, and easy to manage, and notes it is inexpensive and widely available at drug stores.
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Plymouth Shoe Company
Second Avenue Corner
Chilron
Athlon
Pier 4
Joshua Green
Elliott
Fryes
Ality
Wild Rose Creamery
Oregon
Alaska
Olympic
Pike Sf
Third Ave
Western Ave
Whestlake
Weastlake
Pine
Occidental Ave
Ballard
Hallard Ave
Fraser
Paterson Co
Copenhagen
Regis
Malcolm Stuart
America
Talking Machine
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