Frocks and Their Trimming Featured in Winter Fashions
New York reports winter fashion shows a refined charm with rich fabrics and artistic trimmings. Frocks in serge and garbardine gain contrast via soutache braidings, color notes, pink silk embroidery on blue serge, and new wool embroidery. Wide braids, standing soutache, fur edging, and decorative collars complement dark cloth dresses. Novel buttons include gold and brilliants patterned pieces.
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New York
Paris
Robbers Hold Up Baltimore & Ohio Train West of Parkersburg
Two masked bandits robbed a Baltimore and Ohio express train two miles west of Central West Virginia en route from New York to St Louis. Posses searched Parkersburg and Tollgate area for the robbers but found no trace. Loot reports varied with one saying Federal bank certificates were stolen though amounts were not specified.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Wheeling
New York
St. Louis
Central
W. Va
Parkersburg
Tollgate
Sims Powell
Federal Bank
Train Hold Up in West Virginia Has Washington Mail Belongings
Parkersburg officers investigated a staged North Central West Virginia train holdup. Two men in a car fled via Tollgate after seizing registered mail from clerks aboard the Baltimore and Ohio train. The robbers demanded a Washington mail package, escaping toward the east with more than 400 registered packages. Postoffice inspectors and railroad men viewed the incident as the work of experienced operators.
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Parkersburg
Middlebourne
Tyler County
Washington
Grant Helms
Central
T. Ry Knight
Gaston
Helms
Hut
Cecil Thimmer
R. Phillips
Maines Hue
Tollgate
Autonet
Newton
Cincinnati
Porter's Antiseptic Oil Story Emerges in Odd Query
A fragmentary note references Dr Porter's antiseptic oil and a mismatched description of products and prices. The garbled text hints at a sales claim or medical remedy but offers no clear event, date, or人物 details to confirm.
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Porter
War Cross Aviator Tribute From Tempe Reader
A Tempe reader, Han Scarety of Cotton Arte Dispaten Lagire Weller, lauds his son for earning the War Cross as an aviator, details Swiss observations, German wartime economics, cotton and rubber shortages, and notes 380,000 bales held by spinners and 180,000 by the government as war risk lingered into a second year. Also a tribute to Stephen McIntyre for advancing public education in North Carolina. Robeson and Wake Forest connections highlighted.
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Arte
Lagire Weller
Tempe
Switzerland
Jimany
Weiller
Germany
India
Gor
England
Prince von Buclow
Heme
Bates
Genoa
Austria
Haly Boone
Italy
Union County
Worth
Wake Forest
Stephen McIntyre
North Carolina
McIntyre
State Senate
Lumberton Tribune
Robeson County
Robeson
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Redingote of
Jesse James
MR. Wilson
New York Dispatch
Wileen
Norman Galt
Col. E. M. House
Wilson
The
Land
Mra. Galt
House
Philadelphi
President
Secret Service
ASO
Citeus
America
Pallenberg
Madam Bradna
Charlotte
Ellis Godwin
Furr Brothers
Dranster
Grove
Ane
Monroe Cabinet Shop
Hayne Street
Courthouse
I. W. Grove
FORD
Detroit
Henderson Garage & Machine CO
Monroe, N.C
HAN Scarety
Hut Bellot
Yours Truly
Tae
Crowell Street
Monroe Insurance & Investies’ Company
G. BL
Caldweld
Bank of Union Building
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