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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1919
Page
2
A Paris fashion season highlights separate coats and dresses with ample hand work and machine embroidery. Velvet gowns, blue chiffon and leather trims, and two tone fabrics dominate daywear with high necks, upstanding collars, and Louis XIV influences.
Mosul sits at the crossroads of caravan routes from Aleppo Persia and Baghdad and is seen as gaining from British control. The city lies beside the Tigris near Nineveh’s ancient mounds, with a narrow old town wall and famed storks on rooftops. The square bazaar area gathers caravans and Kurds, while the bridge of boats marks Nineveh’s site, where ancient mounds rise from the sands.
A reported fashion piece notes leather trims in gowns and dresses, from narrow belts to cuffs and pockets. It cites an extravagant pink leather suit and a white leather gown with nail heads, praising the unusual Parisian flair for day wear sleeves.
A period instruction notes curling a feather boa by taking a sharp instrument and using light quick strokes much like shaping a paper rose. It suggests methods such as a knife scissors or a hatpin to curl the boa in the same manner as a paper rose.
A tired husband is pressed by his wife to match a silk swatch from a shop. She suggests the counter attendant with soulful eyes, but her husband jokes about the pretty blonde. She then retracts and decides not to trouble him after a tiring day.
Violet urges Joe to return and seek forgiveness while claiming to have destroyed the book of war recipes in a Tit-Bits style snippet. The fragment presents a domestic moral warning with a plea for reconciliation and secrecy.
The article contrasts modern architecture with ancient pyramids noting the Great Pyramid built by Cheops with 100,000 workers over 20 years. It mentions the tomb beneath the pyramid and cites Herodotus on dating before Christ. A separate note reports beetle infested potatoes in a California car from Idaho and Colorado and measures to clean freight cars.
An advertisement declares Bayer insists on the label Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer packages with proper directions for Headache Colds Pain Neuralgia Lumbago and Rheumatism. It asserts Bayer means genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years and notes a handy tin of 12 tablets costs a few cents.
A Japanese innkeeper and his wife recount a tale from Aisaku Waseda about myoga, a spicy herb used to induce forgetfulness. The innkeeper tricks a guest with abundant myoga in hopes of him forgetting to pay his bill. The guest departs without paying, proving the herb’s effect in the house.
Cartoon dialogue features Hewitt and Crewitt discussing plans for a series of tall buildings. The exchange reveals escalating towers as a running joke within Cartoons Magazine.
An advertisement urges immediate action for kidney trouble warning that backaches nervousness and fatigue signal poor kidney function. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as the pure original remedy imported from Haarlem and guarantees money back if it does not help.
An old Extremadura barn yielded a painting of high merit with no identified artist. Manuel Cossio calls it transcendent for Spanish art and a precursor to El Greco and Zurbarán. Bilbaó financier Excevarrieta offers funds to keep it in Spain as government decides on permanent acquisition. The work is dated to the first half of the 1500s. the owner is surprised by the discovery.
American tonnage on the seas has been increased 382 percent due to wartime activity while Britain's tonnage fell by 13 percent, reflecting a shift in maritime strength amid conflict.
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