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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1918
Page
8
The piece extols mothers and fathers as central to sustaining future hope during war. It emphasizes child care as essential, urges support for children through bonds and war savings, and frames parenting as a civic duty shaping America's postwar future. It highlights mothers, teachers, and preachers as key factors in guiding youth and nation.
The author argues for drastic action against Industrial Workers of the World and liberal defenders, blaming capitalists for migrant exploitation and portraying the war as a moment to exterminate perceived threats. She likens reform to eradicating vermin and calls for deportation or punishment of leaders and supporters. The piece reflects intense anti union and anti liberal sentiment amid wartime tensions.
A Chicago exhibit showcases practical garments from Americans for Americans, including wartime wear like trousered overalls and work force attire, alongside nightdresses and negligees. The display emphasizes wearability, quality needlework, and matching accessories such as satin slippers, in a period-appropriate, fashion-forward tone.
Fashion notes describe best dressed young women in resort towns wearing plain silk shirt waist dresses. Features include soft wash silk, belted waists, turned-back cuffs, and deeply hemmed skirts with or without patch pockets. Collars, cuffs, and belts may have contrasting piping or hemstitching. White silks and hairline striped silks are favored. garments look fresh and dainty in summer breezes.
Flowered hats are nearly essential with dainty organdie dresses, adding a bright note to the ensemble and completing the season’s delicate fashion look.
A nostalgic fashion note highlights fall millinery with varied hat shapes from large to small. It praises handcraft, soft crowns, rich materials and quiet colors while noting wartime self sufficiency in design. Descriptions include a dark blue panne brim hat, brown satin with ostrich fine underbrim, a black panne velvet big picture hat, and a porcelain blue felt hat with georgette overlay.
Two young women Bert Wainwright and Louise Laurent creep onto a verandah at a boarding house. They glimpse Reginald Santerre dressing a manikin and admiring a gown. Bert plans to refuse marriage for a freer life, with Louise as confidante, then departs with a friend for France to aid soldiers while Louise contemplates the future.
A broadcast of a citizen’s wartime letter laments hardship from rationing and rising prices. He urges saving through War Savings certificates for children, contrasts deprivation with minimal necessities, and notes appeals to frugality amid scarce goods. The piece echoes home front concerns and everyday sacrifice.
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