Velvet Fashions Bring High Color to Formal Wear
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas highlights vibrant velvets in mid winter style. Paris couturiers showcase blue, sapphire, emerald, cerise and gold tones in velvet ensembles, capes, and jackets with metal galon accents and fur collars.
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Lastex Materials Dominate Sports and Fashion Uses
Lastex materials gain popularity across sports suits ski wear underwear and upholstery as demand grows for flexible durable fabrics in diverse applications.
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Italian Art Exhibition Influences Sleeve Styles
Italian influence visible in Paris inspired fashion with very full sleeves and detachable close fitting options. Mitten shaped velvet sleeves reach above the elbow, often paired with vivid transparent plastics and sequin accents. Bouffant sleeves with contrast fabrics and medieval long panel sleeves also appear in the designs.
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Dead White Emerges as Top Evening Fashion Color
Carmel Snow, editor of Harper's Bazaar, notes dead white is the season’s dominant evening color. She links London jubilee glamour to rising splendor, citing marble white draped gowns by Vionnet as emblematic.
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Snow Youth Suits Highlight Plaid Jackets for Winter
Two piece outfits for children aged four to eight feature plaid double breasted jackets with attached scarf collars and knit cuffs. Plain color jackets with tri color yokes zip up to snug collars pair with reinforced knee trousers in brown green or navy and knitted cuffs. Matching cuffed hats complete each suit.
The Mystery of Juan Carlos and the San Luis Valley
A Spaniard named Juan Carlos arrived in the San Luis valley with peons and a pack train of books manuscripts and gold dust. He vanished each May and returned in October for three years and later died. Two Mexicans who became rich after constructing adobe houses near the lakes vanished themselves. Legends tie the site to Kit Carson Stewart and Archuleta who found a little stream of gold later lost to floods and landslides.
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The Sombrero Mine Hatched By Apache Legend
In Janos Sonora a Mexican boy captured by Chiricahuas is later recaptured after a raid. He guides Mexicans to a canyon beneath a sombrero shaped peak where silver lies. At the canyon mouth Apaches confront the party and force them to retreat, leaving the mine location still unknown to most seekers.
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John Bartram Father of American Botany
John Bartram 1698 1777 revered as the father of American botany founded Americas first botanical garden and earned praise from Linnaeus who called him the greatest natural botanist in the world.
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Morning wrap frock pattern for easy utility wear
A jiffy wrap around frock with shirtwaist style offers daylong convenience from morning to outfit change. It slips on like a coat, opens flat for ironing, requires no petticoat, and slimens the figure. Pattern 2539 comes in sizes 14 through 48, with size 16 needing 3.54 yards of 86 inch fabric, and includes illustrated sewing steps for 15 cents.
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Address and Size Request
Plainly state name address and pattern style number with size clearly. Address orders to the Sewing Circle Pattern Dept. 248 W Seventeenth St New York City. Coins or stamps preferred for payment.
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Wrigley Co Announces Employee Pension Plan
The William Wrigley Jr company unveils an immediate pension plan for its employees. Over 1,300 workers are affected, with a fifty fifty contribution by the company and employees and retirement set at age sixty five.
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Album Collects Signatures of World’s Notable Figures
A collector spent 25 years and about $50,000 to assemble an autograph album containing 30 000 signatures from kings presidents and dictators with only Pope Pius XI missing. The work records signatures acquired across travels, representing nearly every famed person of the era.
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Obelisk Tow Disaster in Bay of Biscay 1878
Cleopatra's Needle a 200 ton obelisk towed from Egypt to England on the S S Olga disappeared after stormy seas when tow cables snapped. The craft was not located for more than two months according to Collier's.
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Bay of Biscay
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England
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