Back to Femininity in Midsummer Fashion
Cherie Nicholas surveys 1936 midsummer style with sheer nets and lace gowns. Garden party dresses feature large hats puff sleeves and generous hemlines while royal blue lupin lace gown from Queen Mary voyage highlights fuse elegance with royal approval.
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America
Edward VIII
Buckingham Palace
Western Newspaper Union
Pax Silk Prints Highlight Peace Motif in Fashion
Silk prints labeled pax, Latin for peace, influence fashion trends. A board member of the international league for peace showcases a blue and white pax silk dress. The garment features a white bordered cape-bertha with pleated styling aligning with current trends.
Frosted Jewelry Leads the Vogue
Summer jewelry favors white frosty tones with rings bracelets and necklaces appearing icy. Crystalline and opaque whites pair with copper-brown and tropical prints. choker returns and large frosty rings rise in style. Nail polish shifts to smoky red while flower jewelry from fabric to real blooms gains traction.
New Modern Smart Sports Dresses for Daytime Wear
Summer daytime fashion highlights light beige woolen suit with natural tree bark belt and dried grass fastener. Navy and white linen tweed dress features wide flat pleats and is paired with a navy riding coat. Molyneux designs appeal to American elegance chasing private clients.
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Molyneux
Clents
Early 19th Century Placid Anti Adams Propaganda
A printed placard from September 9 1828 in Kittery Point Maine attacks John Adams as immoral for flouting Sabbath observance and courting Federalist tavern salutes while praising Andrew Jackson as a devout alternative. Western Newspaper Union records this bold counter campaign.
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Providence
Federal Party
Andrew Jackson
Kittery Point
Maine
Western
Union
Metering Time Like Water in a Seaside Cottage
A speaker compares water meters on Maine coast homes to time usage. He notes the constant clicking of meters and reflects on budgeting time to balance work and play, urging intelligent life management as years pass. He imagines measuring minutes and hours as precisely as pints and gallons.
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Maine
Time is a precious constant in every life
The essay urges readers to value every second as measured by the clock or meter. It notes that time slips away unheeded and stresses careful tracking of both work and leisure to ensure a life well spent.
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General Foods
Joe E. Brown
Warner Brothers
Custard Baking Tips And Household Hints From WNU Service
Practical kitchen and household guidance from the Associated Newspapers WNU Service covers oven control for custards, avoiding stirring cereals, using a silver-plated fork, laundry care for white silk stockings, lemon rubbing on chicken, and repurposing cauliflower leftovers fried in crumbs for meals.
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Associated Newspapers
WNU
Foreign Phrases and Latin Maxims Compilation
A compact list of foreign phrases with Latin roots and English equivalents. Entries include Abusus non tellit usum and Auri sacra fames noting misuse and greed, along with Modus operandi and Tempus edax rerum describing modes and time’s consuming nature.
Turner Critics Salad Style Painting Comment
Turner, the famed English painter, quipped at a dinner that his works resemble a salad. He said the greens are nice and cool, the beetroot red yet not strong, the yellow tint delicate, and with some mustard you get one of his paintings.
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Turner
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