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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1944
Page
3
Advertisement offers complete crochet instructions for the Circular Crocheted Sacque Pattern No. 5759. Send 16 cents, plus your name and address, to obtain the color chart and embroidery rosebud instructions.
Salerno Florida has become a hub of shark fishing as locals pursue liver for vitamin A and other shark products. The line fishing operation uses a 3000 to 3500 foot chain with large hooks to haul in roughly fifty sharks per trip, including tiger and hammerhead varieties, some over 20 feet long.
A playful column offers teen friendly beauty hacks using empty lipstick cases and compacts. Tips include storing bobby pins, sewing needles, and notes in cases, melting old lipstick into a new color, and converting old compacts into lockets.
The column advises teens to skip new makeup on big dates. It warns powder bases may fade after dancing and lipstick can look odd under harsh lighting while suggesting beauty experiments belong to nights at home.
Phyllis Belmont explains proper theater conduct for couples. If an usher guides you the woman enters first and the man sits in the aisle seat when available. Without an usher the man goes first to locate seats, then stands aside for the woman. After the show the woman leads back up the aisle.
New York report notes a Norwegian wave powered pump operated by waves beating the ship side. A wave half a yard high is said to eject about one ton of water per minute. The new patent targets ships under 3000 dead weight tons and is pitched as ideal for fishing boats.
The piece describes a teen who dislikes records and suggests clever room decor like hanging pasted photos of band leaders. It notes threaded options such as slipping a cord through a record center hole or using scratched discs as part of a bedroom display.
A guide shows methods to repurpose records into a necklace or tray by heating and reshaping. It also suggests using an old book case as a cabinet and decorating it with band leader photos for a tuneful room makeover.
A woman escorts a man condemned by sin to church. She forces him to remove his overcoat before a plate collection reveals his missing pocketbook. Two pennies spill, sounding like manhole covers on concrete. The couple then leaves for home, the man nearly spanked if he were smaller.
Minute Make Ups by Gabrielle advises makeup focused on lights and shadows. It explains blending foundation to highlight favored features and shadow weaker ones, using eyeshadow or soft foundation to alter eyelid emphasis and shading to balance chin shape.
The army quartermaster corps plans to acquire about 2000 mules suited for pack work. Weighing 1000 to 1150 pounds they can carry 200 to 250 pounds. Mules prove valuable for supply routes across Sicily Italy and Burma and tolerate combat conditions and air transport better than expected.
Veteran patrolman honorably discharged after 18 months of coast guard service. Gringo, a Belgian shepherd, sits on his front porch and surveys the old neighborhood as Edward Wilkinson of Chicago watches nearby.
Evansville readers rallied to aid K. B. Westerfield who lost his $2,630 life savings to a pickpocket. He has now paid $2,295 cash as a down payment on a 40 acre farm near Owensboro Kentucky with funds raised by supporters.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1219 offers a straight skirt with a peplum blouse in sizes 12 through 20. Size 14 with short sleeves uses 3 1/2 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 25 cents plus name address pattern number and size. The classic jerkin adapts to many outfits as a versatile sun backer top.
Collier's explains paramnesia as a false sense of recollection where a person believes they have previously visited a place or performed an activity. It can occur when attention is distracted after sighting a new place, making the present scene feel like a distant memory.
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