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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1933
Page
3
A fashion feature outlines spring and summer blouse trends from the 1933 Western Newspaper Union era. It highlights tailored satin and silk scarf blouses, lace and printed variants, matching hats, and color contrasts with skirts, noting wardrobe planning and diverse silhouettes for the season.
Cherie Nicholas reviews the spring millinery trend, showcasing a shallow crowned sailor hat in green, yellow and white plaid straw with a tri color band and decorative feather pads. The model illustrates how plaid styles permeate hat design, highlighting straw-cloth construction and fashionable details for 1933.
The new prints are more conservative and subdued in color, with smaller patterns led by checks, plaids, and stripes. Polka-dots appear irregularly, akin to raindrop prints, and many designs use two shades or monotone backgrounds. Pencil-like sketches and restrained florals characterize the collection.
Sashes with large bows and streamers tied at the front form a new daytime dress touch. Following Lanvin inspiration, contrast colors flare on black bases with blue tones. Resort wear highlights melon and soft orange hues. removable button-on tops enable easy laundering for cruise wear.
Fashion notes indicate a shift in lingerie design from dark laces to lighter tones, with the recent emergence of white lace on white silk fabrics. Panties and gowns highlight this alabaster trend as designers move away from previous dark contrasts.
Born in San Antonio Texas Lucile LeSueur runs away to seek stage fame. She trains in Chicago and New York, appears in Innocent Eyes and The Passing Show, then joins Metro Goldwyn Mayer as Joan Crawford. Her rise includes Sally Irene and Mary and Our Modern Maidens leading to lasting film stardom.
A humorous tale traces Benny and Tessie from modest beginnings to absurd wealth. Through Benny’s invention and rising status, they join idle rich society, facing vanity and social climbing. The piece ends with a blunt moral on income taxes.
The article notes the United States leads in peanut production and consumption with crops sometimes exceeding a billion pounds while importing more to meet demand for roasted salted and candied peanuts and peanut oils. It highlights pecan gains, imported walnuts mainly from China and Italy, and shelling plants, plus French and Italian hazel nuts and Turkish filberts alongside Brazil fats from the Amazon region.
The Black Forest stands as Baden’s premier feature, a majestic wooded rampart offering views of the Rhine and Vosges to one side and the Swabian Jura to the other. It holds deep German significance as the birthplace of the Danube, whose true source is debated between a garden spring at Furstenberg and the forest’s slopes.
A compact look back at past sayings on history and the recurrence of events. Includes lines attributed to James I of England, crises, and reflections by Carlyle and Mr Barkis highlighting money, taxes, and uncertainty.
A vintage ad promotes Cole’s Carboll salve for a cut or burn pain, claiming instant relief and quick healing without a scar. The product is sold by J. W. Cole Co., Rockford, Illinois, with prices of 80c and 60c and 11 druggiata.
An old advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a brain boosting tonic for women. It emphasizes no alcohol and promotes tablets or liquid form sold by druggists. The copy features exhortations to “Use the Old Bean!” and highlights “Only brains are not efficiently applied.”
A short note discusses odds against an unnamed subject called the angry man, indicating two to one against. The line reads as a wagering statement without further context or identifying details.
The article traces how the word signing and stipulation derive from old practices. It explains that many people once signed with a cross and that stipulation comes from Latin stipular meaning a stalk used to bind agreements. It notes Romans broke a thin stick to seal mutual consent.
In a town where large flocks migrate nightly, Helen asks why the birds are noisy. Her mother explains they are settling in for bed, and a boy adds they are putting on their nighties.
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