Cynthia Grey’s Letters and Love Dilemmas for Women Readers
A column for young women discusses love at seventeen, sending photos or Bibles as gifts, hairstyles to curb hair loss, and fashion for a slender look. It advises cautious romance, endorses kindness, and urges adults to balance judgment with personal growth. Readers’ questions cover loneliness, social integration, and jealousy within family setups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atone Island
Stevenson
Men of Iron
Howard Tyle
Crafteman
A. B. Hall
Dear Miss Grey and Anxious Reader Cousin Marriage Question
A reader seeks guidance on a love triangle and whether first cousins may marry. The adviser urges the loyal path to exit the affair and restore brotherly respect, while another reader asks if cousin marriage is legal and learns it is forbidden in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Grey
West
Abe 1
Mies Grey
Mise Grey
G. A
Gifts for a Captain's Bride Card Ideas for Traveling Useful presents
A reader suggests practical travel gifts for a shipboard captain's bride in Australia. Sewing cases, an ollcloth toilet article case, a portfolio for writings, a silk hat bag, embroidered items, and well covered books make thoughtful gifts. Also includes simple recipes for sweet rye bread and cheese cake and a letter on sleeping with a child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Mandy's Calico Dress and the Cotton Path to Price
A feature follows Mandy a Mississippi child picking cotton and wearing a calico dress. It traces costs from raw cotton to finished cloth and asks who profits while urging governors to address cotton pricing and farmer profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mandy
Patriotic Trust
Soft Velvety Skin For Every Woman Adverts Lotion Claim
An advertisement promotes epurinax lotion as a skin remedy claiming to remove obstructions and wrinkles, give a soft velvety texture, and reduce the need for powders and rouge. It describes preparing the lotion with glycerine, hot water, spurmax, and witch hazel as a drying agent.
Brokers Advice on Stock Reactions Issued
Fr W Stevenson and Co brokers Bailey Bridge advise likely stock moves from current levels. Mentioned cautions include securing bins and noting contact at Western Collection Co 433 N Block Main 6169.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fr. W. Stevenson & Co
Bailey Bidge
Eee
Western Collection Co
Beaten Star Readers Doughnuts and Cottage Puddings
A collection of kitchen notes detailing doughnut dough with four and cream of tartar, sugar, nutmeg, and hog fat fry. Includes Little Cottage Puddings with preserved fruit, a macaroni and cheese method with a cream sauce and crumbs, and an eggless cake made with butter sugar and nutmeg.
Free sewing machine touted as lightest and fastest
The copy claims the Free is the lightest running and fastest sewing machine yet made. It promises improvements that the seller will demonstrate to potential buyers.
Things That Deform the Face and Form
Six short lessons describe how biting lips or nails harms health and appearance. Biting lips injures tiny vessels and circulation, nails signal irritability, nose wrinkles deepen, standing on one foot tilts the body, stooping harms the chest and voice, and tight lacing causes a red nose and ugly complexion.
Parisian Sage Dandruff Treatment Offered With Guarantee
Quaker Drug Co advertises Parisian Sage with a money back guarantee. A Fulton Missouri reader endorses the product, claiming it erases dandruff cleans the scalp makes hair fluffy and promotes growth. The maker Giroux Mfg Co backs the guarantee in Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quaker Drug Co
Giroux Mfg. Co
Buffalo
America
J. G. Franklin
Fulton, Mo
Rescued from a Near-Death Illness by Dr Rudolph Therapies
An elderly woman healed after years of heart disease fainting and digestive failures credits German American physician Dr Rudolph with dramatic improvement. The notice promotes naturopathy and invites interested students to inquire at 1619 Westfike Blvd City, urging U S P officials to investigate.
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Francisca Miller
Sara McKeever
Palantine Ave
Rudolph
Alberta
Canada
American College of Naturopathy
New York State
Medical Board of State
Peter Rudolph
Nestor
Westfike
Spoon Returned From Springfield Adventure Mentioning Billy Sunday
From Springfield Ohio a worn German silver spoon arrives at Postmaster Charlies G Schippel. The note requests its return and cites Evangelist Billy Sunday urging that stealing is wrong. The spoon was taken years ago as a restaurant souvenir near the depot during a Big Four excursion to Cedar Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandusky
Springfield
Billy Sunday
Charlies G. Schippel
Mall
Cedar Point
Dry Shampoos Improve Hair Shine and Scalp Health
The piece cautions against wet shampoos that strip oils and dull hair. It promotes dry shampoos as cleaner and more invigorating for hair and scalp, citing a home remedy of 4 ounces of either roots or corn meal mixed with 4 ounces of a base and a tablespoonful brushed into the scalp to remove dust and dandruff and impart a silken sheen.
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Aaye
the Star
Cynthia Grey
Pansy
Gately
Third Avenue
Seneca Street
Hofbrau
New Orleans
Nov
People’s Bank
Kryptok
SION
Lens Huteson Optical CO
Second Av
Union Makers of Good Glasses
Albany
Pike Street
Seattle
Warit & Large
BS Dentists
People’s Mer
Pop
Albany Pai
Ff Dougall & South
Farche
Mac
Purcell Safe CO
Hall
the Free Sewing Machine Club
Pike
Bentence
Dandruff
Corner First
Korrect Millinery
Liberty Bidg
Union Dye Works, Inc
Agents For Journal
Joe
The
Armstrong Co
Agente For
Milwaukee
Seventh and
King Streets
Ind
Twentieth Ave
N. W. Ballard
Market St
Ballard
C. G. Ingalls Watchmaker and Jeweler
Ballard Av
Niecome Independent
Scandinavian Peemencan Bank
Ballard F. P. Searle
Otto
J. Pedersen
A. W. Preston
Preston
Ballard 2
Ballard Ave
Wm. M. Curtiss Company
Union Savings & Trust Co
Singer and Wheeler & Wilson
Twentieth Avenue N. W
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