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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1928
Page
3
Fashion foresees a shift from satin and velvet to metal fabrics and felt in evening gowns and hats. Bold new silhouettes feature minaret flounces and princess lines with simplified, regal fabrics. Felt bows, pyrography, hand painting, and crystal accents adorn cloches, berets, and tuneful hats as designers emphasize streamlined elegance over fairy-tale ornament.
Julie Tyson, rejected from standard help wanted ads due to being a woman, proves her qualifications by challenging gender bias. She meets Walter Yates after securing a high level post at Tyson & Co. and envisions running twenty six stores. Their business arrangement grows into a personal bond, with mutual consent as the contract term.
Pauline E Fessler twenty stands firm when three armed men burst into East River Sheet Metalworks office during payroll hours. She hides safe, throws inkwell, pens and blotter, four shots fired. two miss, one hits finger, another grazes her head as bandits retreat.
Charles Little, using 40 aliases, was arrested in Charlotte after a nationwide fraud spree against 300 to 400 insurance claims totaling 35 000 to 50 000 dollars. He specialized in staged falls in stores and hotels and is beginning a six year prison term for deceiving managers seeking quick settlements.
In Budapest two tailors Antal Sztefanek and Janos Leier settled a heart quarrel with a real duel using scissors. Leier lost part of his nose while Sztefanek lost part of an ear. Both men suffered multiple facial gashes and must answer to a police magistrate after hospital treatment. Dwelling duels remain illegal though practiced.
Representative Virgil Chapman of Kentucky tells a Paris dinner a tale of a friend who rode restive horses on a stock farm. The cart toppled after a short trip but the groom claimed the horses had only just been harnessed, joking the boss would buy them if the friend arrived home safely.
In 1900 experts claimed the carbon filament lamp could not be much improved. Industrial research began in electricity and the lamp’s efficiency roughly quadrupled since then, boosting artificial lighting intensities and driving broader applications that aided industrial prosperity.
A. T. Fish of Industry Maine brought a basket of whiteberries to Madison Maine. He found the wild bush a year or two ago, planted it at home, and it has thrived and spread into a large patch. The berries are not large but very sweet.
In Oconto Falls Wisconsin neighbors rebuilt the burned farm home of widow Ernestina Schindel and her eight children. Her husband died three years ago and she previously worked the wooded land. Neighbors rescued her from smoke before the fire destroyed the home.
A Meriden Connecticut barber announces a men only policy at his shop called stag with no services provided to women.
In Novato California Herbert Graham experienced a prolonged yawn that locked his jaws. Bystanders alerted others and he was taken to a hospital where doctors restored function. The report notes the incident carries a Shakespearean digression on talent and soul.
A brief item notes the family upstairs performs the same musical piece repeatedly, highlighting endurance and monotony. The passerby comment calls it a "Some record" indicating astonishment at their persistence. The piece persists as a local curiosity with little variation over time.
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