Spring Fashion Prospects Favor Suits and Gay Prints
A 1936 fashion forecast highlights a strong suit season with mannish tailored woolens in grays and blues, plus vivid gay prints featuring birds fruits and stamps. The piece notes stylish accessories and navy footwear, with jacket frocks in striking prints and triple sheer fabrics ideal for spring wardrobes.
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Western Newspaper Union
Rose of the Rancho hat admired by Gladys Swarthout
Cherie Nicholas notes the Rose of the Rancho hat becomes an instant hit as stores display it in advance millinery shows. The style suits young girls with sports outfits, featuring a cord chin strap through a button and paired with a bright ranch handkerchief scarf.
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Rose
Gladys Swarthout
Filmland
Jeweled turtle pins dazzle with gold and rhinestones
Maryland and southern diamond-back terrapins pale beside a jeweled turtle pin in catalin and simulated gold. The piece features a gold head and legs and a colorful rhinestone studded shell, outshining Baltimore’s pride.
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Maryland
Baltimore
Greek inspired sandals shape evening shoe styles
The Greek influence on evening wear extends to footwear with sandals and low heels matching velvet, game, and brocade fabrics. Designers present rich sequined, embroidered, or beaded models in gold or silver accents. Julienne designed near flat square heeled sandals to accompany Worth dresses.
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Julienne
Originality Defines New Paris Winter Tailleurs
The piece highlights new winter tailleurs with morning and afternoon versatility. It notes contrasting fabrics for jackets and skirts, with Schiaparelli featuring plain skirts paired with tartan or fancy wool jackets and similar contrasts in afternoon ensembles using dull rayon crepe and fancy mixtures with slit cellulose film.
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Schiaparelli
Glamorous wraps steal the spotlight this season
The article notes wraps as must have glamorous accessories this season. A pale beige velvet full skirt wrap with shirring and cordell detail features a large mink collar. Another wrap uses quilted white alk in a heavy weave.
Lights of New York dark tale of Jerry the Grifter
Jerry the Grifter wanders cold Bowery streets in rags seeking warmth and food. A cop’s mercy and a push cart vendor’s honesty give him a brief reprieve as hunger ends with a half dollar and a plan for the next two days. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service.
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Bellevue
Jerry the Grifter
Jerry
Bowery
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Fingerprint System to Identify Grass Species
Amherst Mass Miss Elfriede Klaucke a graduate assistant in the agronomy department at Massachusetts State college is developing a fingerprint system to identify many of the 3500 species of grass. Her method compares free hand cross sections of grasses with permanent microtome slides of known variety and bases identification on anatomical features rather than external or microscopic traits.
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Amherst
Mass
Elfriede Klaucke
Massachusetts State College
Monograms for linens enhance charm and utility
Four alphabet designs in large and small sizes let crafters scramble initials for Hope Chest linens. The Pattern 1126 kit includes transferring guides for initials 8, 2, and 1½ inches high, stitch illustrations, and placement tips. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Kindly Feeling Where There Is Kindness In Justice
A reflective note argues that kind feeling in courts and public life helps set wrongs right. It urges temperate judgment and humane treatment as essential to fair outcomes and civic harmony.
A Three Days Cough Signal Prompts Quick Creomulsion Relief
A three days cough signals danger and promises quick relief with Creomulsion. The ad claims the medicine goes to the seat of infection to soothe and loosen germ laden mucus, promising satisfaction or money back from the first bottle.
Footwear care and home sanitation tips from Beil Syndicate
HOUSCHOM offers advice to keep boys' shoes lasting longer and water resistant by using sparing castor oil on uppers and full oil on soles. A lavender oil deodorizer is brewed from oil of lavender in hot water. Emphasizes weekly lavatory cleaning with disinfectant and occasional disinfectant down the pipes.
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Beil Syndicate
WNU
World Full of Happiness Not Beyond Us to Create
Bertrand Russell states that a world full of happiness is achievable despite obstacles. He argues real barriers are in human hearts and can be cured by firm hope informed and fortified by thought.
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Bertrand Russell
Alaska Forest Area Estimated at Seventy Million Acres
Federal foresters estimate Alaska forests cover 70 million acres. Two national forests, Tongass in the southeast and Chugach near Seward, total 21 347 acres. Average yield is about 25 000 board feet per acre with merchantable trees 2 to 4 feet in diameter and 90 to 140 feet tall.
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Alaska
Juneau
Tongass
Chugach
Sewagd
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