Beguiling Silk Sheers This Summer Fashion Preview
Silk sheer fabrics dominate the season with tulles nets organzas and mousseline de soie in full skirts and waltz frocks. Paris designers showcase voluminous gowns slim bodices and delicate trims as bolero and redingote styles lead evening wardrobes.
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Paris
Schiaparelli
Western Newspaper Union
Costume Accents by Cherle Nicholas
A fashion caption illustrates a modish young woman wearing a daisy crown hat by Jean King with a natural straw brim and a gold scroll pin. The scene emphasizes how carefully chosen accessories enhance feminine dress and style.
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Jean King
Colorful Corset Trends In Colorful Corset Fashion
The piece notes a color contagion reaching corsets with a youthful corselette offered in leading stores. It can be ordered dyed in about a dozen colors to match evening gowns or new suits.
Gloves complete the formal look for graduates and proms
Glove advice urges sweet girl graduates to choose white glace kids for diplomas and spring proms. The article stresses gloves as the finishing touch to any dress, with options from long to short and a shift toward feminine romantic style.
Styles in coats rise with chic smart lines
The piece notes fitted slightly flared coats as chic and popular, redingotes remain a fashion favorite, and short coats arrive in town with a straighter box cut replacing last year's fuller shapes.
New Surf Overalls Feature Turned Up Cuffs
Summer overalls reach just above the knee with cuffable hems for wading in surf. The design keeps the familiar overall straps and introduces a baggy cut while maintaining a lightweight feel for beach wear.
Child with Oversized Heart Defies Odds in Connecticut
In Norwalk, Connecticut, Mary Cocchia, now thirteen, survived a heart five times normal size diagnosed as cardia bovia six years ago after doctors warned she would live only two more years. She helps around the house and plays with neighborhood children, defying typical limits for the condition.
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Norwalk
Conn
Mary Cocchia
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Torture Rock Discovery Marks Pequot Past Unearthed
Stonington Connecticut archaeologist John L Davis unearthed a torture rock used by Pequot captives and warriors for burial rites on his farm. The site yielded teeth jaw bones and two complete skeletons seated in oyster shell graves with turtle shell dishes, dated about four centuries ago. Davis notes the find supports early historians view of Pequot ruthlessness and preserves a rare burial record in New England.
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Stonington
Conn
John L. Davis
Davis
New England
Norris Bull
Hartford
Professor Bull
Mountain Lion Joins Owner as Walking Companion
In Bridgman Michigan Benja min Magavern keeps a private zoo of 22 animals at the Navajo Trading Post tourist camp. His lion Jerry trains well and even licks his keeper’s hairless head during long walks through the woods aided by a 30 foot chain collar.
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St. Joseph
Mich
U.S. 12
Bridgman
Benjamin Magavern
Jerry
Lady
Magavern
New Mexico
Mines Coal for 78 Years No Time Off for Injury
Steubenville Ohio88 year old Harry Carrol of Wolf Run prides himself on 78 years in the mines with no lost time accidents. Honored by the All-Ohio Safety Congress for his record he remains the oldest active coal miner in the country. He began mining at age ten and despite a swollen thumb from a March 17 birthday jam he has never missed a day. He plans to continue working as long as he can wield a shovel.
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Steubenville
Harry Carrol
Wolf Run
United States
Carrol
All-Ohio Safety Congress
Duquesne Poll Finds Coed Open to Tobacco Chewing
At Duquesne University a poll shows one coed would accept an ideal man who chews tobacco. The survey notes none of the pictured candidates resembles a mustached man.
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Pittsburgh
Duquesne University
Elk Mother Keeps Vigil Over Dead Calf in Wash
A mother elk in Oak Flat, Washington, kept watch over her dead calf for a month and died of starvation after the calf was killed by a logging truck.
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Death Oak Flat, Wash
Modern to the Min ute Chic Patterns for Summer Wear
Sew-Your-Own presents a trio of wearable summer outfits including a Two Piecer with blouse and waistcoat, a streamlined sports dress, and a jabot edged frock. Patterns 1302 1286 and 1915 cover sizes 14 to 48 with yardage details and edge finishes. Send orders to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago Illinois. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Chic
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Valuations of precious stones compared by quality
Collier's Weekly asserts diamond value trails sapphires and rubies on equal quality and carat, with diamonds at 40-50 percent of pigeon blood ruby value and 25-30 percent of emerald value.
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Collier’s Weekly
HOUSCLOI Questions Chilling Canned Fruits
Caution advises removing paper labels from canned fruits before refrigeration to prevent insulation that slows chilling.
Cardui advertised as relief for menstrual pains
An advertisement urges women to try Cardui for monthly pains and related symptoms. It claims Cardui eases functional menstrual discomfort, boosts appetite and digestion, and builds natural resistance, advising consult a physician if no benefit and to ask the druggist for Cardui pronounced Card-u-i.
Hot Weather Warns of Biliousness and Calo Tabs
In hot weather digestion slows and symptoms like belching headaches nausea and sluggish bowels appear. The ad promotes Calo tabs a calomel compound offering relief with trial and family packages sold at drug stores.
Huan on True Happiness and Pleasure Revealed
Philosophical excerpt contrasts happiness with truth and illusion. It states true happiness comes from doing good and truth sustains happiness, while pleasure rests on illusion.
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Somerville
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