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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
8
A fashion description reviews a versatile coat-dress that doubles as outerwear and warmth layer, featuring a bordered scroll motif, cable cord braiding, and a square cape. Details include a semifitting bodice, slim sleeves, slit pockets, and a matching scarf. a turban with a chrysanthemum pompon completes the outfit.
A illustrated feature previews summer millinery and resort wear for women traveling south from snowbound regions. It describes black sipper straw hats with antin bands, a panne velvet hat suitable for day or evening wear, and a turquoise blue straw hat with peanut braid and orchid pink velour trimming. The article highlights new braids and light colors signaling spring.
Fat Washable blouses and lingerie tops dominate this season with batiste and cotton voile favored fabrics. Fine tucking, hemstitching, and delicate lace edgings highlight the trims. Tailored blouses in men’s wear shapes remain highly popular.
Instructions describe restoring a stretched sweater by washing in hot water with wool soap, rinsing in cold water, laying flat on a covered surface to dry, shaping with arms raised, fastening buttons, and stretching the garment to its proper shape rather than reshaping.
In a New York World summary by Arthur Benington, diverse aircraft evolve under war pressures. Bombing planes like Caproni and Gotha are heavy load carriers. reconnaissance machines require two crew, wireless gear, and 3–4 hours of flight. battleplanes fuse speed, climbing power, and firepower. Italian Pomilio, French Nieuport, German Albatross, and other models are described with wing spans, speeds, and roles, highlighting distinct designs without cross-usage.
A wartime survey describes German Gotha and Italian Caproni aircraft, their wing spans and engines, and notes on armament including forward firing guns and a downwards pivot gun. It discusses twin and triple wing configurations, speeds around 90 mph for Caproni, and the challenge of stopping these flying forts. It contrasts monoplane decline with biplane and triplane designs and mentions Liberty engines and Fiat Isotta engines in development.
An OCR fragment discusses how battleships and battle cruisers are named and lists historic ships linked to the navy. It mentions consigning five new superdreadnaughts to New Africa, Cathore Hid, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Titwho, and notes old frigates Constitution and Constellation will be known as Old Constitution and Old Constellation. Saratoga is identified as the former New York.
A fragment discusses Socrates Apologia ideas and notes Alexander Criden a 19th century craftsman offering services to government as a viral corrector. It contrasts modern business people offering quick expertise with expert limits and cites Christian Science phrasing about expertise and efficiency.
A garbled passage discusses a pagan or Christian rite in a distant locale. It mentions a female figure, a saintly or sacred role, and a ritual event tied to birth or veneration. The text is incomplete and many names and places are obscured, leaving the core actions and participants unclear.
Reader recounts a chaotic scene aboard a London omnibus where a driver upset by a string shaker joke escalates, trading insults as onlookers watch. The piece notes Dickensian flavor and a later remark that the prank was a brother’s rage from last Friday.
A Philadelphia correspondent reports on the St. Sauvetur church members, mostly under sixty, serving at the front or supporting both French and U S forces. They endure loss of loved ones while aiding war orphans in France and Belgium, knitting and sewing comforts, sending relief supplies, and subscribing to Armenian aid.
Sir Bernard Mullet announces suicides in England fell sharply since the war began. He cites national unity and shared sympathy as reducing personal injuries and immorality excuses, while economic discipline and routine help curb insanity and melancholia by limiting despondency and encouraging restraint.
Panl Gary of Anderson Indiana with an artificial glass eye tried to enlist in the US Marine Corps at Louisville Kentucky. Sgt G O Wright discovered the infirmity and asked if he knew the eye would prevent enlistment. Gary insisted the lighted glass blinker was the only part of him made in Germany and wished to take it back by mail.
The nottomell research council committee on botany outlines wartime substitutes for costly crops through wild plants. It recalls a Civil War era list by Dr. Jose Morvhor of Southern substitutes for drug plants. Information may come from hunters, trappers, farmers, women, and foreigners who collect in the countryside.
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