Box Pleats Define Modern Skirt and Matching Scarves
Julia Bottomley notes the rise of box pleated skirts with circular-cut fabric to widen hems and adds a matching pleated cape. The piece highlights pleats, blouses and scarves as critical to the season's modish ensembles, with color trends in bright hues and soft pastels.
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Paris
Julia Bottomley
Newananar Tinton
Kidnappers Foiled by Rural Heroine and Neighbors
Alice detects a couple of kidnapers staying in the Peck house near the hollow. She alerts Mrs. Peck and, with the help of Jake, confronts the suspects as a child is recovered. Police later reunite the infant with his mother and siblings, and a substitute teaches the rural school.
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Alice
Sawmill Hollow
Mrs. Peck
Jake
Peck
Lice Arnold
Mrs. Forrest
Forrests
Skill and caution on road safety and driver training
The Louisville Herald Post argues that rising car death tolls demand driver training over pure speed limits. It stresses skill, coordination, timing, and a disciplined driver as essential to reducing accidents, noting the danger of inexperienced overtaking and praising good drivers even amid political or moral disagreements.
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Louisville Herald-Post
Ingenious Coin Detector for Vending Machines
A coin detector for vending machines tests coins by weight and uses an electromagnet to reject fraudulent disks. True coins pass. counterfeit pieces are diverted. A counterfeiter triggering a contact hears an embedded voice saying Please use good coins only recorded on a single groove.
Santa Fe First Settlement Date and Origin
The first settlement at Santa Fe dates to 1606 after Coronado visited in 1541 but did not establish a town. The original name La Ciudad Real de la Santa Fe means The Royal City of the Holy Faith. Some sources note uncertainty about the exact founding date due to 1680 archive destruction.
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Santa Fe
Juan de Onate
Rain Falling From Clear Sky Debunked by Weather Bureau
The weather bureau states there is no phenomenon of rain falling from a clear sky. It explains drops may come from dew or tree exudations and insect-sapped sycamore limbs, but these are not true rain.
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Weather Bureau
Ungartered Hose Inspires Boy To Emulate Uncle
A family episode from the Springfield Union recounts a boy who admired his uncle Charles by wearing hose without supporters. The mother notices repeated wrinkling of stockings and fixes them, until the boy finally explains his wish to imitate the uncle's style.
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Robert
Charles
Springfield Union
Oh Promise Me And A Tip On Health Remedies
An item promoting Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic to enrich blood soothe nerves and impart vitality. Claims include improvement of appearance for the run down and unwell and offers trial tablets for 10 cents plus free advice from Dr. Pierce's Clinic Buffalo New York.
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Cupid
DR. Pierce
Warned Moscow Crane Figure Foretells Ruin Without Reconstruction
The text describes a grotesque warning in Moscow showing a man hanging by his trousers on a crane atop a textile factory. A zigzag sign points to the figure and predicts doom for Russia unless a nationwide reconstruction program is embraced. The piece critiques warped ideas of self sacrifice and notes many flights of genius from a high bluff downward.
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Moscow
Russia
Castoria and Rider Haggard Highlight 1925 Notices
A vintage advertisement extols Castoria as a gentle ready aid for infants addressing colic constipation fevers and sleeplessness while a biographical note recounts Sir Henry Rider Haggard English novelist born 1856 died 1925 knighted 1912 and his Transvaal experiences.
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Henry Rider Haggard
Bradenham Hall
Norfolk
Transvaal
Theophilus Shepstone
England
Haggard
London
You must like the movies you go so often
A bachelor notes the frequent movie outings, while a married man counters that his wife adores films, and the joke centers on domestic habits and affection for cinema. The exchange suggests light humor about couples and social life around entertainment.
Grave Crisis In City Home When Can Opener Vanishes
A Louisville Times blurb notes a domestic mishap as a family confronts a minor crisis after the missing can opener triggers a tense episode at home. The report reads as a tongue in cheek observation reflecting everyday household anxiety.
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Louisville Times
Family doctor's laxative offers easy relief for constipation
Old Dr Caldwell's prescription cannot form the cathartic habit. It can be given to children with coated tongues or fetid breath and to older people whose bowels are sluggish. Pure senna and laxative herbs in Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin aid normal bowels. Drugstore or mail order free trial bottle available.
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Caldwell
Monticello
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