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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1940
Page
3
Fashion notes praise the season’s evolving hat trends with dramatic wide brims and tiny spring toques. The piece highlights felts, raffia, and white straw styles, including off-face brims for youth and adults, red accents, and black and white pairings to suit prints and town wear.
Vincent DeLiso unveils Once Insoleated a synthetic insulator for inner soles. A slim layer between sole and lining blocks pavement heat and cold and molds to the foot on first wear. The innovation promises an unusually soft contact that comforts the wearer.
In the summer display the emphasis shifts to sheer black and black and white outfits with bold colors and textures. The collection highlights lightweight fabrics and streamlined silhouettes designed for hot weather and urban wear.
Fashion trends now push companionate accessories to unite outfits. Costume rings match lapel gadgets and clips, while flower costume jewelry tone matches nail polish. Designers extend coordination to gloves, hats, and parasols in same fabrics, especially floral cottons.
Dark linen garments take the stage with a black or navy redingote dress featuring a front flare revealing a starch white petticoat frill and snowy embroidery. Green linen ensembles with red accents and cocoa brown linen accessories offer bold, contrasting elegance in the latest fashion notes.
Paramount sets Joseph Conrad drama Victory directed by John Cromwell with Frederic March and Betty Field. Filming spans Java Sourabaya to Hong Kong and Manila with 100 cadets in Military Academy scenes. Child actor Dickie Lyon from The Howards of Virginia worries his parents.
Gary Cooper photographed his two year old daughter Mary in his car dash. Agnes Moorehead raced by train and air to reach a Big Sister broadcast in New York but weather grounded planes, forcing detours to Cleveland and Pittsburgh before time ran out. Frances Langford drove 700 miles to the Navajo reservation for a wedding anniversary, while Al Kikumi, Hawaiian by birth, was chosen as chief for a Small production. Virginia Dale and Lillian Cornell join Wayne Morris in Touchdown.
Agricultural engineer M. G. Huber reports that farm safety relies on self discipline and homemade precautions. S. H. McCrory notes that distance, long hours, and hurried work raise accident risk from machinery and animals. Carelessness, makeshift repairs, and unguarded equipment are common causes. A well ordered farm reduces accidents and costs.
An entomologist from Michigan State College advises two annual treatments for poultry pests to protect profits. Lice require on birds and mites need coop treatment. spray for mites uses half crankcase oil and half kerosene, applied to cracks. Lice are controlled by applying nicotine sulphate on clean perches before roasting, repeated after 14 days to catch hatchlings.
Agriculture officials report disease resistant tobacco developed by crossing American native tobaccos from Mexico Central and South America with U S varieties. Scientists say field adaptation and global exploration yield billions in value for American farmers.
Lightweight barley can be fed profitably to hogs per the South Dakota experiment station. Family vegetable gardens are praised as the most valuable area on the farm by leading home economists. Salt is the only mineral commonly lacking in the farm animal diet out of 13 minerals required by the body.
A nostalgic ad describes three summer pinafores for girls in size 8721 with frills and pockets for trim ming and trophies. It highlights air conditioned comfort, sun protection from bonnets, and practical, easy sewing, urging mothers to choose these attractive outfits.
An assortment of epigrammatic quotes from Kant Lao Tsze Lavater Racine La Rochefoucauld and a Chinese proverb. The lines spotlight themes of duty humility rumor distrust and truth as foundation of perfection and beauty.
The quiz questions cover navy mortality, Count von Zeppelin Civil War service, DC presidential electors, annual ball usage by baseball leagues, and Civil War air battles. Answers cite motor vehicle accidents, a Union service by Zeppelin, DC having no electors, about 105000 balls costing 130000, and an aerial skirmish with one Union balloon crew killed.
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