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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1914
Page
22
A stocked catalog describes color rich millinery for autumn with hats in sand gray, watermelon pink, maroon, and garnet. Styles feature gabardine and satin bases, wide or upturned brims, ostrich accents, and ribbons. Notable pieces include a bedford turban with a black satin base and a garnet sailor shape trimmed in grosgrain.
Grace Margaret Gould, fashion editor of the Woman's Home Companion, discusses retro style in an article extract. It notes the discomfort of being called old fashioned yet argues that autumn and winter fashion will recreate quaint looks from the past as a pretense to style.
Do it yourself guide describes using a drain pipe umbrella stand for a compact hall. It suggests decorating with a narrow striped paper wrap, pasted upright, then sealed with transparent varnish for easy cleaning.
Under the heading Good Advertising Brings Dollars a faded line of text hints at promotion tactics. The garbled OCR fragment mentions small space ads and price prompts, suggesting an era piece on effective advertising and earnings without clear specifics.
In Black Broadcloth describes a model of black broadcloth with plaited overskirts and a yoke. It predicts a revival of fifties sixties and eighties styles with billowing frills and capes, hinting at a crinoline fashion resurgence to ponder.
The article discusses current stationery fashions emphasizing neat appearance. It notes placing the address in the right-hand corner, a telephone number, and telegraphic address in small type, often diagonally, with country houses listing the nearest railway station.
A fashion trend article notes a shift from under the left ear to the left hip for artificial flowers. It highlights a green satin evening frock with a large pink rose on the left hip and a Premet crepe satin gown with a black velvet poppy at the same location. Speculation is offered on whether the boutonnieres for the autumn wall will be smaller.
A fragmented snippet notes a father, son, and mother attending events at a Methodist church on a Sunday morning. The passage hints at baseball activity and a young person named Agea, but details are unclear and disjointed.
Inland Northwest brief items recount the elopement of Mrs. C Graeta and H D Doherty, a Denver & Rio Grande wreck near Grand Junction killing three and injuring fourteen, a Reno murder arrest, a Las Vegas accident with a mangled body, and various regional notices. Also notes absences and returns of railway workers, school uniform plans, and Red Cross talks.
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