Christmas cocktails drive New York holiday sales rise
New York shoppers flock to bars, silversmiths, and leather goods stores for extravagant cocktail sets and shakers as department stores and jewelers showcase festive drinkware. Prices soar from fifty eight fifty to five hundred plus, amid a booming post Prohibition demand and interior interest in luxury beverage gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatella Tribune
New Genec
New York
Fifth Avenue
Maiden Lane House
Wall Street
Doe
Silvercamiths
Rai
Short Skirt Influenza Sparks Fashion Health Warning
A series of vignettes from London to New York lampoons trends and public life. Doctors warn short skirts worsen cold symptoms. Churchill balks at pricey books. the Prince of Wales visits Scotland Yard’s black museum. college debates spark wins and losses. Hardy attends Tess in Dorchester. Wilson renaming a Warsaw square. Missouri coeds oppose disorderly serenades. Henry Ford featured snowshoes. a Philadelphia trucker gets police protection from two wives. Turks cling to fez amid hat bans. Count Salm hires a lawyer. livestock beauties at a Milwaukee expo. two youths profiled for talents and farming chores.
White Cargo Opens at Auditorium After long Broadway runs
Coming attractions stage and screen report White Cargo opening Monday December 7 at the Auditorium. The film version stars Mae Murray and John Gilbert with six lead players carrying the story and a memorable Merry Widow Waltz scene. Also showing Steele of the Royal Mounted at the Strand with Bert Lytell Charlotte Merriam and Stuart Holmes in a vivid north woods melodrama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Cargo
Daly's Theatre
New York
Cort Theatre
Chicago
Playhouse
London
Orpheum
Mae Murray
John Gilbert
Steele
Royal Mounted
Strand Theatre
North Woods
Bert Lytell
Charlotte Merriam
Stuart Holmes
Road to Yesterday Brings Casanova Style to Capitol Show
Casson Ferguson plays a tavern tap-boy in The Road to Yesterday. He adds grease paint and creamed skin to a clean outfit, slipping a button to create a disreputable look, as cast includes Schildkraut Gondal Reynolds Boyd and Faye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casson Ferguson
Joseph Schildkraut
Jetta Gondal
Vera Reynolds
William Boyd
Julia Faye
Capitol Theatre
Mount Wallace Named After Iowa Official in Montana
The United States Board of Geographic Names designated Mount Wallace in Park County Montana as the peak following a forest board recommendation. The naming honors Henry C. Wallace former secretary of agriculture of Iowa who served during ula Toian year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dee
Ilenry C. Wallace
Iowa
United States Geographicalhardin
Park County
Montana
Mount Wallace
Forest Board
Peanut coal for stoves and ranges at $7.50 per ton
Idaho Coal and Ice Co advertises peanut coal for force and range stoves at seven dollars fifty cents per ton with phone numbers 304 and 306.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peanut
Idaho Coal and Ice Ca
Destructive Fire Hits Council Bluffs Business District
A basement boiler explosion at Continental Furniture ignited a major fire in Council Bluffs. The blaze caused over 1 million dollars in property damage and hundreds of thousands in stock losses as eight fire companies battled across a full city block. Grand hotel guests fled in their underwear. no fatalities confirmed, two people reported missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Continental Furniture Company
J. McNanigal
Grand Hotel
Omaha
Enae
Gana Aeu
White's Cream Vermifuge Advertises Child Health
An advertisement urges treating children with White's Cream Vermifuge to expel worms and parasites harming vitality. It claims the product kills worms without harming health and lists a 35 cent price, sold by Watson Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watson Drug Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wits
Robert T. Small
The
Associated Press
Winston Churchill
Bermuda
Black Museum
of Scotland Yard
Prince of Wales
Cambridge, Mass
Frank Wavanaugh
Boston College
Harvard
Man
Dorchester
Fug
Thomas Hardy
Warsaw
Jolibeshe
Woodrow Wilson
Columbia
University of Missouri
Norway
Mellie Dunham
Fiddler
Henry Ford
Peary
North Pole
Philadelphia
John Berger, Jr
Angora
Fez
Fory Rotere
Salm
Palm Beach
Alice Burkhart
George Cuskaden
St. Paul
Ind
Dad
Style Shop
Merry Widow
Strand
MacMillan
Zenith
the Capitol
Wallace
Tribune
Paris
Lady Betty
Main and Clark
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!