Fashion Notes Emphasize Suit Revival and Mandarin Tones
A fashion authority notes this is a suit year with dresses receding. Style favors clinging fabrics, coats with mandarin hints, matching color bindings, crepe de chine linings, three piece suits, and wraps in black or navy. Street dresses stay straight and slim with lightened fabrics and restrained embroidery.
Pale yellow bridal fashion with shell pink accents
The piece discusses pale yellow as a vogue for intimate wedding wear and suggests pairing a soft shell pink girdle with a yellow negligee, noting both the bride and groom would approve.
Ribbon Emphasis Dominates Spring Fashion in Paris
The article highlights a ribbon heavy year with frocks featuring ribbon panels at sides and hems. It notes opulent Parisian influences with wide brocaded ribbons, sash gowns, and ribbon girdles, including a crepe de chine bow and decorative ribbon bags in brown taffeta.
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Paris
Frills of Fashion Highlight Exotic Fabrics and Embroidery
A fashion feature surveys taffeta dresses with chintz panels, corrugated pongee suits with embroidery, and vivid imported vests. It notes Japanese embroidery, honey dew hues, macrame lace, and new drop stitch voles, plus Mirage organdies in pastel shades and a simple claret satin tea frock with oriental embroidery details.
Veil Styles Highlight Paris Hat Fashion
In Paris veils adorn chic hats with novelties shaped as half circles, squares, and draped ends. Mesh veils in castor, brown, or black feature chiffon borders in pale pink or white, including Egyptian filet mesh with a chiffon edge.
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Paris
Charlis Back in Soft Color for Children’s Frocks
The fabric Charlis returns with its soft texture and vivid color, finding favor in smart shops for making children's frocks. Designers embrace the material for its appealing drape and range of hues.
Human nature the garden of good and evil
A meditation on human nature arguing most people are guided by high motives, with kindness and charity shaping lives. It compares people to a garden where planting goodness yields joy, while envy and malice produce weeds, urging readers to cultivate the good side and give motives the benefit of the doubt.
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Elihu Burritt
Foaming resort closure tied to local turf clash
In Crimson Gulch, the famed Foaming resort is closed after police actions. Three-Fingered Sam confirms authorities moved in, while Cactus Joe claims the win was not by police but due to his own winning streak.
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Crimson Gulch
Sam
Cactus Joe
Admiral Vernon and the origin of grog in the Royal Navy
The article traces how Admiral Edward Vernon popularized rum and water aboard his ship the Burford, earning the nickname Old Grog from a grogram cloak and giving rise to the sailors term grog. It connects grogram to grog and marks Vernon’s fame for Porto Bello and Mount Vernon.
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Edward Vernon
Porto Bello
Spain
Mount Vernon
Washington
Burford
The Lucky Strikes of Modern Enterprise
A column extols lucky strikes in business citing Elsie Shaver of New York who created sought after high priced dolls with a successful shop and large staff. It notes other women in advertising and retail who found success through original ideas and hard work, not passive luck.
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Elsie Shaver
New York
The Woods by Douglas Malloch
A rustic poem chronicles an ant’s hard day carrying straw grain and sand to an anthill. The ant’s effort contrasts with a larger force that ends the hill’s toil in the night. The piece emphasizes industrious small beings against an indifferent, powerful creation.
Be like the bird that sings through broken branches
A fragment from Victor Hugo inspires resilience while providing a recipe note for tender green peas with mint sauce. It also outlines a bacon fat and vinegar salad dressing and a herring salad with potatoes and eggs, plus suggestions on olive oil substitutions.
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Victor Hugo
Unclear recipe notes for dressings and poached eggs
Fragmented kitchen instructions describe eye yolk blends with cream cheese dressing and gelatin ginger ale mixtures. A second item covers poached eggs on anchovy toast with a batter spread on crisp toast.
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Usion
Tanlac Restores Lexington Woman From Debilitating Illness
Mrs W B Osborne of 718 Lancaster Ave Lexington Kentucky describes long years of nervous weakness dizziness headaches and digestion trouble before Tanlac treatment. She notes immediate improvement and urges other sufferers to try the remedy sold by leading druggists.
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W. B. Osborne
Lancaster Ave
Lexington
Cincinnati
Adv
Fragments Remain After St Mihiel Bombardment
A battlefield scene recalls a German company at St Mihiel. Debris and scraps of gray cloth mark fallen soldiers while a supply officer notes the heavy losses. A medical major comments on duty assignment with caution.
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St. Mihiel
Amerain Legion Weekly
Aspirin Bayer Label Encourages Trusted Tablets For Pain
The notice promotes Bayer Aspirin as a genuine Bayer product with the Bayer Cross on tablets indicating safety. It claims doctors tested the dosage for 21 years and asserts efficacy for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and general pain. It notes small tin boxes of twelve tablets are inexpensive and larger packages are sold by druggists.
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Bayer
Woman critic hears art joke about importance
A woman art critic comments on two paintings, while a quiet artist behind her says it doesn’t matter which she prefers. The quip plays on the idea of art being of no importance to the critic.
Freckles Remedy Promises Clear Complexion
An ad touts Othine double strength as a guaranteed freckles remover. Apply nightly and morning with one ounce often sufficient, promising rapid results and a money back guarantee. The nearby clipping adds a misfit line about a tile family quarrel observed during entry.
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