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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1923
Page
5
Fashion notes call for hats to mirror new suit lines with broader shoulders and trousers. Wider brims, softer hats, and grey dawn and smoke shades lead the season, with derbies regaining popularity in black, gray, and tan.
The piece recounts Americans in Tokyo and Yokohama reacting to a major earthquake. It details building types, fire risks, and relief needs. notes Azabu Kojimachi Akasaka residences, Mitsukoshi store destruction, and the dramatic fire in Asakusa Park alongside the ruined Kaijo building and Tokyo station area.
The Brighton Brighten records note Chapter A Q P B E O meeting on Tuesday with fifteen members at a covered dish luncheon. Visitors include Mrs. W S Close of St Clairsville and Mrs. M C Terry of Hollywood. Miss Callie Galbry and Mrs. Lyon of New Sharon attended. Two weddings surprise locals Boyd Hicks with Gladys Schafer of Fairfield and Marie Gowey with Willard Lindeaur of Ames.
The article notes men will largely keep existing footwear, with oxford wearing rising while high shoes decline. Leather tones shift to fawn tan and bilge, black and brown remain common, and comfort drives design away from pointed toes. Brogues stay popular in oxfords and high shoes as spats and patent leather options appear.
Mrs Adelle Fray and Herman Spohn of Chicago visit their mother Mrs Belle Spohn this week. Mrs Mary Isreal called to Des Moines Tuesday by the death of her brother Benson Isreal.
A frugal young man reassures his girlfriend as he plans to buy tickets this afternoon. He asks about her hearing and eyesight, showing cautious confidence in inviting her to a local theater stock company performance.
A seventeenth century trend in wigs grows from Abbe La Riviere who wore a wig at Louis XIII court. The king, briefly bald, adopted the look spurring wigs as a customary sign of courtly discretion among nobles.
South American coffers and cotton planters say women and children outperform men though wages are lower. Women trade in fruit vegetables and dress goods as destructors on steamships linking West Indian Islands. In Grenada they farm metals drive roles as blacksmiths shepherds carpenters and carriers.
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