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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1934
Page
3
Velvet steals the spotlight this fall with tailored velvet suits, deluxe coats, and velvet evening wraps. Swanky plaid woolen daytime dresses, velvet hats, and accessories in forest or pine greens surge in public taste as formal and casual wardrobes pivot to rich velvet textures. The Nightwear trend emphasizes washable velvet nighties amid practical daily wear.
Fashion trend report notes smart Parisians abandoning hats for bareheaded looks with high crowned hats as next step. Flowered and shallow hats exit per stylist Marjorie Howard who just returned from Paris. American buyers rush to high crowned hats after midsummer Paris openings. Split skirts rise as the season’s most dramatic silhouette with day dresses slit and evening gowns reaching the knee or higher.
Scarfs for winter are described as gay and brazen with plaids and stripes in bright colors. Preferred hues include bright red rust wine greens and navy with black and white also popular. Fabrics range from sheer woolens cashmere novelty materials silk velvet crepe and taffeta. Shapes noted are square triangle ascot and the Jockey style.
Velveteen jackets pair strikingly with tweed suits blending with darker tones. New velveteen dresses for fall feature high shades like peacock blue cahita red wood brown.
Velvet dresses and tailored lamé suits lead fall fashion. Printed velveteen dresses return, green gloves gain traction, and tawny russet browns trend in the country. Capes, beaded wooden bags, and cape or dress contrasts flourish with tunic-length jackets and stiff vs soft robes de style.
A fashion note describes a pew tailored suit model in green gaberdine with a double breasted jacket and large patch pockets. It pairs with a white mannish blouse, brown accessories, and a silver fox scarf to create a distinctive ensemble.
Washington reports the League of Nations year book shows the Soviet Union with 65 warships totaling 104,615 tons, most pre World War I, while Japan has 216 ships and ongoing construction. Other nations include France 185 ships, Germany 47, Italy 177, Great Britain 254, United States 350 with various ships under construction.
A Leningrad Surgical Institute team removed a pigeon egg sized malignant brain tumor from a young girl to prevent blindness. The operation, near the brain’s life centers, involved sifting brain tissue to excise the growth. Such a procedure has succeeded only a few times in medical history.
Andover Massachusetts Dr William Dacre Walker fifty five of this town has become the recipient of an annuity paid by the British crown in gratitude to Elizabeth Pendrell whose family saved King Charles II in 1651 by hiding him in a hollow oak near Foscobel The annuity valued at about 60 dollars per year is declared in perpetuity and is now paid to the local descendant following the death of the doctor’s eldest brother in Italy
Fashion summary of a smart youth ful frock in red and brown checked rayon with a mannish tailored linen influence. Features patch pockets high club collar masculine brown tie linked turn-back cuffs. fabric praised as handsome as silk and durable like iron.
New York presses a sensational crime statistic claiming 250000 murderers at large in the United States and about 300000 potential killers among current residents. Author J H Wallis cites rising murder prevalence, with recent cases of Anna Antonio’s execution and Eva Coe’s conviction illustrating deadly motives and female killers.
Frank Alkens a Sidney farmer in Belleville Ontario wins bragging rights for the season with a 38 pound muskellunge he hooked in the Moira river. The fish towed his motorboat for over an hour and then struck him on the chin with its tail as he attempted to bring it aboard. He called it the worst battle with a fish he has ever experienced and noted his face was swollen from the blow.
Burns Oregon news recalls Jim Mahon famed Harney county mule breeder who sold mules in 1000. Ira Mahon of San Francisco, son of the rancher, identified a mule along a California road as the one sold years ago. He notes his father sold about 300 mules yearly in Stockton and believes many are still at work.
Ellis Purlee, register of the U S land office in California, says the homesteading era remains active. About 9,208,275 acres are still open to homesteaders in the state, with 2,200 homesteads entered last year covering 622,771 acres.
Game Warden A. O. Pendergraft and Fred Deyo reported seeing over 1,210 mountain sheep on a high mountain trip, including 200 rams, as they considered whether to close the season in the county this year.
Seventy year old Thomas Dresser filed to reverse a court ruling declaring him dead last December. He learned a bank would not honor his savings account as the Supreme Court of British Columbia had ordered his estate divided among relatives, with succession duties already paid.
Roy Milligan of Miles City Montana takes a small white pig for strolls on a leash. He was inspired by a traveling salesman who kept the same unusual pet before Milligan purchased it.
Engineers drilling a test well for Muskingum Watershed conservation found a log buried fourteen feet beneath earth, likely washed down from the hills by Bell. The finding emerged during exploration for a potential conservation site in Tappin, Ohio.
Old time favorite cranberries gain vitamin C fame and new uses. The piece outlines several ways to enjoy cranberries including stewed cranberries, cranberry sauce, cranberry tapioca, and cranberry conserve. It provides recipes and notes cranberry color and tang quality. It highlights serving ideas beyond jelly and relish.
Dr Ernest L Talbert of the University of Cincinnati says the flapper era is finished. He notes magazines since 1890 show shifts from family focus to divorce birth control and sex morals with a rise from 1922 to 1929 followed by a retreat to a conservative tone and stricter codes in periodicals.
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