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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
2
Summer fashion notes praise sheer organdy frocks for warm evenings, highlighting fresh youthful styles with lace and net, narrow lace trimmings, and vivid colors like lavender pink jade and orchid. Describes pink organdy dress with tunic, corded tuck, crocheted buttons, and elbow-covering sleeves as an example of contemporary elegance.
The article advises city hosts to use country or small town settings for relaxing guest gatherings. It suggests porches and verandas as assets and outlines practical items like small pillows paper napkins and party servings. It covers picnic planning from food to cups lighting and sunset or twilight finishes with lanterns a bonfire and a Victrola powered evening.
A street fashion piece notes lace cascades returning to favor with smart frocks. It also observes a comeback for tasseled tattored suits and jabots on chic high standing collar looks, suited to slender American girls with long necks.
Washington. National Museum opens a permanent exhibit with nearly 60 works by American artists showing life of the American Expeditionary Force overseas. Scenes include ruined French villages sacred due to American sacrifice and scenes from front lines and billets with Pershing division soldiers among locals.
The display depicts trench fighting, hospital scenes, and war equipment. Painters from the American expeditionary force include Morgan Potsoco Smith Townsend Dunn Duncan Aylward and Tharding, all linked to New York and nearby towns.
May air mail flights covered 54 603 miles with 88 percent efficiency on New York Washington route and 86 percent on Cleveland Chicago and Chicago Omaha. Only two forced landings for mechanical trouble. fuel shortages and head winds caused 15 others. Newark field delays blamed for poorer May performance. Praeger urges prompt preflight checks and quick departures to lift overall ratings.
The War Department reported that over 100000 army personnel had their measurements taken in the largest tailoring survey to date. Results show western soldiers with the biggest chests and eastern troops with smaller chests, guiding stock reductions and wider access to fitting uniforms. Measurements will be shared with the clothing trade to standardize sizes.
Paris official war ministry figures list 362872 French soldiers killed with 361854 unaccounted for. Minister Lefevre says military service cannot fall below two years amid planned army reorganization. He notes 70000 French troops in the Near East, largely colonial regiments.
Edgar D. Crumpacker's will awards his son Owen L. Crumpacker five hundred dollars extra if he marries. The bequest also includes the father's law library and a large estate nearby Lake Michigan near Gary’s steel mills. Owen L. Crumpacker is a local attorney and bachelor.
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