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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1947
Page
17
The piece critiques fashion excess and inapt streetwear, urging sensitivity to time and place. It notes dramatic heels and fur stoles clash with midmorning shopping districts, and favors functional, California Inspired styles for mothers and professionals.
An advertisement promotes a fashion pattern bundle from Anne Adams with a jumper and blouse design, size 43 jumper, and various yardage specs. It explains easy sewing, complete illustrated instructions, and a mailed order for 25 cents in colonial currency, with delivery in 10 days to two weeks.
The guide divides apples into four classes: eating, baking, all purpose, and sauce. Eating variety highlights include Delicious, MelIntosh, Grimes Golden, Yellow Newtown, Jonathan, and Spitzenberg. Baking prefers large firm types like Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Wealthy unripe, Rhode Island Greening unripe, Winesap, Baldwin, Spitzenberg unripe. Sauce apples should be quick cooking, firm, tart, slightly acid and juicy. fitting examples include Jonathan, Wealthy, McIntosh unripe, Rhode Island Greening, Grimes.
A 1910 era note argues against rushing babies to walk. It asserts walking emerges from natural strength and opportunity, not instruction, and that most children walk when ready. The piece references a periodical offer and details for obtaining it.
The text discusses the hardiest winter onion, the red perennial or Egyptian, which yields onion sets at the seed stalk top. Plant in fall, one foot apart, and harvest by thinning like green onions. Plants survive and regrow, with varieties including Golden Winesap Cortland Norther Jonathan Baldwin Wealthy and McIntosh noted.
A reader laments restrictive styles and hobble skirts, arguing against forced elegance. She champions freedom of movement, self expression, and critical views on current newspaper fashion discourse and female emancipation debates.
A fragment describes Willie Willis and doctors, with a voice recalling Mt and a mother figure saying she will get over it. The text hints at hunger and resilience as a recurring motif in the community tale.
A guidance note about sending a child to shop with a list and directions to call if items are forgotten. It warns against giving too much instruction and stresses quick, cashless transactions and avoiding telephoned calls.
The article outlines a Turkish bath style steam method to remove wrinkles by hanging garments outside the shower curtain bar and running hot water for a half hour. It adds tips for refreshing professional appearance, including dampening and shielding with wrapping paper, then ironing and hanging until completely dry. It also notes planting perennial vegetables like asparagus, rhubarb, and hardy onions this fall for earlier harvest next year.
In a domestic scene Thomas Wallace laments lack of private space as he and his siblings claim corners of a shared room. The mother protests limits while Bob asserts each area should remain undisturbed for personal items. The passage notes how an inventive homemaker can grant each member a personal corner in a room.
Actress Judith Anderson recommends a brown and white check tweed suit for spectator sportswear and city wear. The outfit features a long hip jacket with flap pockets, accessorized with tailored flats or shoes, classic hats, feather bags, gloves, a feather belt, and silk squares in spice tones.
A fashion note describes high p hat silhouettes as rounding out a fuller figure. It praises soft profiles and crown shapes that balance size, with velvet and plaid trims adding bulk. Cloche and beret remain stylish, but with gentle, crushable crowns for softer balance.
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