How to Save Money When Shopping Gingham Varieties
A 1922 guide outlines gingham types and their qualities. It covers apron, domestic, French, Zephyr, Kindergarten, Madras, chambray as ginghams, and Scotch dress ginghams, noting weaving, colorfastness, price, wear, and typical uses for each fabric.
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Madras
Choosing Curtain Material For Better Home Fabrics
A buyer’s guide to curtain fabrics explains how to distinguish scrim, voile, grenadine, marquisette, and net. It describes pull tests, interlacing patterns, and directional thread stability to identify materials and justify price differences.
Airplane Crash Reported as Patchside Incident
An aviation mishap near a rural patch leads to surprise good luck humor from locals. The incident, described in light terms by the Boston Evening Transcript, notes a plane down rather than a crash with minimal injuries and community reaction.
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Boston Evening Transcript
Fashionable suits and bathing styles for the season
A fashion feature surveys choices for suits and swimwear, noting plain tailored lines versus decorative designs. It highlights navy poiret twill suits with silver embroidery, wide embroidered jackets, varied bathing suits including knit, chintz, batik patterns, and new moire silk wrap bathing caps, emphasizing color and artistic detail.
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Milady
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
A Michigan woman and a New York woman credit Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing nervousness headaches melancholia and other symptoms of life transition. Letters describe improved energy mood and ability to perform housework after using the product. The firm offers a private text book on ailments peculiar to women upon request from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Haun
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Akaggead Pba
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Lydia E Pinkham
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Syracuse
Right Man Must Be There
Quote on chance and timing notes that the right man must be on the spot when needed. An ad promotes Cuticura products for scalp itching and dandruff, advising nightly ointment use and morning shampoo for clear skin and soft hands.
Couldn't Dick What did she say when you kissed her
A brief humorous exchange captured as dialogue with implied romantic tension. The line delivers a quip about a reaction after a kiss, hinting at the social dynamics between two speakers named Dick and Ted.
Alarm clock inventor mystery in children’s quip
In a Richmond Times Dispatch column a teacher tests Percy on invention history. Percy shirks the question saying his father would confront the inventor if he ever met him. The dialogue underscores curiosity about modern conveniences and a rural tone.
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Percy
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Paris Book Sparks Censor Controversy Among Readers
In a chatty note, Ludwig-Darling discusses a Paris volume censored for publication and circulating through readers. Georgette replies she is finishing her mother's cookbook and not ready to start another title.
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Darling
Paris
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