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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1917
Page
7
A fashion preview describes Worth and other houses offering velvet and fur waistcoats with plain tailored suits. Details include currant red duvetyn coats, gaberdine and diagonal serge fabrics, large turn over collars, and slim ankle length skirts with pockets.
Simple wartime gown in peach georgette drapes gracefully with silver fox trim. Long sleeves and a low neckline feature a pale blue Ribbon waist lineage and a shoulder nosegay of coordinating colors.
Fashion notes point to corduroy as lining for long coats and wraps this season, replacing satin or fur. Ribbed velvet gives body to lightweight exteriors, with interior colors in white, putty, or pastels. It remains to be seen how well this idea takes hold.
Paris vows a vast revival of embroidery as a national industry. French women, trained in old crafts, will provide fine needlework amid wartime shortages. Refugees and unemployed,societal classes faces economic strain. embroidery becomes a gentler service to support the home front.
Leather shoes stay in favor despite talk of conservation and pledges against $15 footwear. Women buy high priced leather styles, shunning cloth tops. Expect plain leather, back tops, and brown or gray boots to lead fall trends with satin evening slippers and rhinestone buckles completing outfits.
A New York inventor has designed a handbag that grips the wearer's wrist by its own weight. The leather handle carries two metal slides with a roller, connected by a leather strip. When worn, the bag's weight pulls the slides up, tightening the handle around the wrist and preventing it from sliding off.
New York report explains how the judge advocate general’s department guides soldiers on pay allotments wills guardianship and debts at training camps. It covers how to handle real and personal property, probate rules, and the need for timely legal advice before and during service.
In 1868 John Philip Sousa joined the Marine service as a drummer boy and rose to lead the Marine Band. Later he became director of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station band, which Sousa helped develop into the navy’s largest and most famed ensemble.
Rev J Stanley writes that beavers on his Montana ranch north of Yelena block water in White Tail Deer creek. Each day workers must trek several miles to clear obstructions placed in the channel by the busy beavers.
The fragment notes large monetary figures involving Canadian manufacturers. It references amounts around two billion and thirty-two billion in unspecified units and contexts.
Ex President Taft toured the Fort Omaha balloon school viewing observers 4000 feet up signaling trenches and dummy artillery. Nearly 800 keen Americans are training there to direct American artillery fire in France and Belgium as the drive to Berlin begins.
The United States Army Balloon School at Fort Omaha seeks qualified men for commissions as 1st Lieutenant Observation Balloon Pilot. Applicants must be US citizens, at least 19, energetic, of good character, and pass exams. Training leads to a first lieutenant appointment with a $2,000 yearly pay, and $100 monthly during training. Application forms are available from the Aviation Examining Board at Fort Omaha Nebraska.
Stockholm reports the merger of all Swedish match factories into a single company with 400,000 shares valued at 200 crowns each. The announcement outlines a unified corporation to streamline production and distribution across the nation.
Attorney General H. M. Havner orders a recount of Monday's special election on constitutional prohibition in Des Moines. Unofficial returns show wets ahead by about 1,000 with 480000 total votes. officials may alter the final result.
Twenty Russian warships of various classes are trapped in Moon Sound by a cordon of German warcraft. An attempted breakout toward the Gulf of Finland or Gulf of Riga failed after heavy damage including the sinking of the battleship Slava, forcing the Russian flotilla to seek refuge in Afoon Sound.
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