Bonded Fabrics Gain Ground In Home Sewing Trend
Industry notes show a surge in home sewing with 1968 fabric sales projected at 1.8 to 2 billion dollars and 2 million sewing machine purchases. The piece explains bonded fabrics, their benefits for shape and wrinkle resistance, and tips for selecting and sewing them. It discusses dry cleaning concerns, grain direction, and thread choices, projecting continued adoption and future improvements.
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Women’s Wear Daily
Richard L. Hallett
DuPont
Hallett
Zodiac Sign Themed Fashion Fragrance Ensemble Debut
Andre Richard division of Gold Seal Co introduces 12 Zodiac sign ensembles linked to a star. Each kit includes sachet hangers wafers squares jewelry cases and travel cases for hosiery handkerchiefs and scarves. Gift packaged with fashion color accents.
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Andre Richard
Gold Seal Co
Cancer Society Chapter Elects Mrs. Hemenway
Bennington County Unit of the American Cancer Society held its annual meeting at Putnam Memorial Hospital. President James P. O’Neil reviewed a banner year with fund returns surpassing 1967 by over $2,000. new officers for 1969-70 were nominated including Mrs. Donald A. Hemenway as president and Mrs. John F. Wohmus as vice president.
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Bennington County
American Cancer Society
Putnam Memorial Hospital
James P. O'Neil
Richard E. Posthauer
Patrick Gordon
D. Dexter Davis
Service Committee
Davis
Ford Shrader
Dorset
County Service
O'Neil
Montpelier
Cancer Society
Frederick van Buskirk
Benjie the Baby Walks and Wrecks the Home
A humorous diary-style note chronicles Benjie’s first steps and rapid mobility. The author describes teething, chewing everything, furniture scuffs, and daisy-munching escapades, comparing the child to a vacuum and predicting a future of little walkers greeting visitors.
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Benjie
Webster’s Dictionary
Jackie Onassis
Safety Session In Williamstown Promotes Youth Safety Program
Williamstown Massachusetts invites Bennington area boys and girls in grades 3 through 10 to the third fall winter safety program meeting at Southworth School auditorium at 10. A guest speaker will discuss local safety topics with a town manager present. Three sound color films on space basketball fundamentals and school bus safety will be shown. Chief Joseph Zoito Jr and Aux Cmdr Floyd J Bennett will lead the safety session under the Williamstown Auxiliary Police. The next Auxiliary Police business meeting is set for Monday November 4 at 7 30 p.m at auxiliary headquarters.
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Williamstown
Mass
Bennington
Southworth School
Leroy Picard
Tommy
Jack Twyman
Joseph Zoito Jr
Aux
Floyd J. Bennett
Williamstown Auxiliary Police
Auxiliary Police
School Lunch Menus and a Carbon Paper Purchase Case
A long list of weekly school lunch menus from Monday to Friday across multiple weeks appears, detailing meals like hot pork sandwiches, pizza, soups, fish, and desserts, followed by a UPI report from Worcester, England. Company clerk June Whittley testified in court that salesmen persuaded her to order 17,522 pounds of carbon paper costing 18,053 dollars, claiming it would supply her knitwear firm for a century.
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Weicester
England
UPI
June Whittley
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