Fur accents dominate 1932 spring fashion trends
The article notes fur trims on sleeves and cuffs in new spring and summer suits, including outfits from Hecht woolens. Beiges, blues, and whites pair with fox borders, lace openwork woolens, and lightweight fabrics. Evening wear and daytime pieces feature fur as a chic, ongoing detail across outfits and jackets.
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Hecht
Western Newspaper Union
New Spring Fabrics Not Exactly What They Seem
New fabrics for spring toys are not what they seem. Demand for economy and Parisian design yield cotton that looks like wool and silk that resembles fur. Rodler's cottons imitate tweeds, and nubby weaves recall furs or ratine, with prints in interlaced dots and checks gaining favor. Silks for town are heavy, while sports wear fabrics stay light.
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Paris
Rodler
Paris Designers Introduce Push Up Sleeves For Gowns
Paris gown makers unveil elastic banded push up sleeves on evening wraps and informal dinner gowns. Buyers and wearers welcome the solution to avoiding ripped sleeves while dining, keeping sleeves tidy and stylish during meals.
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Paris
Jending Houses
Many Little Wraps by Chemie Nhouolas
An illustrated feature surveys short waistline jackets with long sleeves in velvet and sheer fabrics. It highlights bellhop style wraps, sheer ruffles, white transparency paired with black satin, and wraparound jackets that can serve as blouses or jackets.
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HS Lest
Supreme in their own environment
A historical piece praises Australian Aboriginals as advanced in their own environment, noting uncanny tracking, ground reading, and survival skills. It describes crude writing on sticks and sophisticated smoke signaling with color coded meanings, and explains fire making and material selection. It contrasts their abilities with European scientists.
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Australia
Ancient cooking pits unearthed around Kinsale Ireland
Nine falwvehtda cooking pits found near Ballinto Ber Coolcorrin Mellinfontstown Ringrone Ballinvredig Tresaxon Kippagh Selby Glen and Clashmore as Townshend notes heaps of burnt stones indicate ancient food prep by inhabitants per Keating and other sources.
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Ireland
Kinsale
Ballintober
Coolcorrin
Mellinfontstown
Ringrone
Ballinvredig
Tresaxon
Kippagh
Selby Glen
Clashmore
Townshend
County Cork
Keating
Inhabitants Dig Two Pits For Cooking Meat
The Montreal Family Herald describes a method where people dig two pits for washing and cooking. They stack red hot stones and lay meat wrapped in green bulrushes between layers, repeating until the amount is prepared.
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Elent
Montreal
Napoleon as Nature's Supermen and Cold-Blooded Ruler
A quoted passage from Thelps in Scribner's extols Napoleon as a nature driven superman and notes his lack of religion and affection for women besides Josephine. It contrasts his energy with defeat and remorseless acts and contemplates the glamor and danger of his name to compel allegiance again.
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Napoleon
Josephine
Europe
Earth
William Lyon Thelps
Scribner’s
Lightning Strikes Tree Killing Livestock in Richlands Farm
Dick Blankenship of Richlands Virginia watched as a lightning bolt hit a tree in his yard killing a cow and six pigs sheltering beneath it. He was unhurt though his pipe burned away and the soles of his shoes were ripped.
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Dick Blankenship
Richlands
Blankenship
Perpetual Flux of Language Quips in a Comic Exchange
In a humorous exchange Mrs Catte and Mrs Wattle parody medical banter about a husband’s nose. The quips reference recruiting words and “taking him literally” with witty puns.
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Telton
Mrs. Catte
Doctor
Wattle
Soldier's lone raid yields Hindenburg defense plans
An August 1918 British soldier raided a German HQ and seized documents he could not read. Recently he learned they contained the Hindenburg defense plans, helping the Allies win the war. he wonders who deserves credit for the breakthrough.
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Fense
Collier’s Magazine
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