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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1914
Page
10
Hats show new autumn shades and trimmings with colors from sand to watermelon pink. Styles include wool Bedford turbans with bold color, garnet sailors with grosgrain ribbons, and veiled befeathered contencers. black satin turbans pair with white peacock wisps for dramatic effect.
Grace Margaret Gould, fashion editor of the Woman's Home Companion, writes about old-fashioned style in an extract from her article Fashion Takes Backward. She explains that looking old-fashioned can hurt a stylish image and notes that autumn and winter trends revive quaint, classic looks rather than new ideas.
A drain pipe umbrella stand is presented as a simple useful item for a small hall. It suggests decorating with a narrow upright paper stripe, covering exterior, drying, then applying transparent varnish for easy cleaning.
A clipped OCR excerpt from an American paper shows a heading Good Advertising Brings Dollars with garbled text about pricing and space. The readable bits mention advertising and small space talk, but many words are unreadable.
In Black Broadcloth the text describes a revival of mid-century fashion with black broadcloth garments, tucked overskirts and yokes. It forecasts hats from fall models and a trend toward crinoline, capes, mantillas, and prim basques recalling grandmothers' wardrobes.
A discussion on stationery trends notes the value of neat appearance in correspondence. It emphasizes a large plain black address in the right hand corner, a telephone number and telegraphic address in the opposite corner, and country house rail station information printed in small diagonal lettering.
Fashion notes say the left hip is the new focal point for a rose or poppy on gowns. Designers show large pink roses on the left hip and black velvet poppies on satin frocks. Whims about boutonnieres for the autumn wall remain speculative and whimsical.
A partial OCR fragment describes Little Agea’s father taking her to a baseball game with her mother two to three others on a Sunday morning. The text mentions an event at a Methodist church and a nearby corvics term appears as garbled filler.
Inland Northwest notes a chaotic scene with the elopement of Mrs C Graeta and Hd C Doherty, a grand railway wreck near Grand Junction kills three and injures fourteen, a Reno arrest of a youth tied to a murder, and assorted regional dispatches. It reports rail and law actions, deaths, and various societal events across Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and California with names like Denver & Rio Grande, Union Pacific, and Salt Lake.
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