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Three days before Caruso died he sent for a boy named Giulio Nardella and asked him to sing. This Nardella had been a silk-weaver in a New Jersey factory. He sang as he worked. He sang as he walked home. People praised the beauty of his voice and Caruso sent him to study with de Lucia of Naples. That day he sang by the great tenor's bedside the last song Caruso heard. Last week he returned to the U. S. He will sing this winter in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago...
Synthetic silk or "rayon," a fabric made from wood and other forms of cellulose, now manufactured by the millions of pounds, was thus honored...
Next morning they turned up at the Capitol, silk hatted, with varicolored spats, and walked all over the bright white lines in sym-were tacked up in the great semicircles of seats, making it look metrical designs, and the diligently pointing arrows which the local Traffic Director had just painted on the pavement...
...retail outlook for the coming Christmas is bright. Moreover unlike the famous "silk shirt" Christmas of 1919, the buying promises to extend to many sorts of articles, instead of simply to luxury products. Most of this cheerful outlook is based on present conditions of high employment and high wages...
...America. Many males will probably be astonished at the color of shirts, cravats, socks, dressing-gowns and even suitings presented to him. Second, a huge tide of foreign goods is now being imported. Better and more German toys will be seen. Fine quality of European glass, stamped leather and silk novelties from England, France, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia are already arriving...