Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orleans last week returned Dr. Franz Blom from seven months in Central America and Mexican jungles. His party had been hunting Mayan vestiges. Their best find was cloth 1,500 years old. Interesting was evidence of a game quite like squash played by the aborigines...
...itself staunchly up in U. S. life, and osteopaths have become skilled in their advertising use. But the finest sign that any osteopath had theretofore devised was a bronze one exposed at Kirksville, Mo., last week. It was fixed to a great boulder and lay hid under a cloth while several hundred U. S. osteopaths, at Kirksville for their 32nd convention, massed themselves before it. Two children dragged at the drape. Beholders viewed with emotion cast phrases commemorating the 100th birth anniversary of their school's founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still...
Hopefully and generously contributed were these and many, many another product of the genius of U. S. industry. But no matter how satisfactory any or all of them may prove, Explorer Byrd has announced he will endorse none of them. Nor will he endorse the clothing designed, after months of experiment, for the expedition. U. S. underwear men went into conference at Troy (N. Y.) to evolve the airplane cloth garments for summer wear, the heavy wool underwear for winter...
...Capt. Cook that the U. S. territory of Hawaii prepared to celebrate last week. Grass huts were built on Waikiki beach, Honolulu, to show how the natives lived 150 years ago when white man first gazed upon them.* The peaceful tasks of weaving lauhala mats, pounding poi, fashioning tapa cloth were conspicuous in the pageant...
...storekeepers and its landlords, are, of course, its famed cotton textile mills. And since the War, New Bedford mills have done exceedingly well, declaring cash dividends of over $32,000,000, stock dividends of about half that sum. They employ 35,000 operatives. They produce a high grade of cloth, so high that they are virtually free from the competition of Southern mills...