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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1932
Page
3
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas notes cottons gallop through the season with versatile looks from sheer durene crepes to lacy mesh eyelets. Durene fabrics, dotted weaves, faggoted textures, and embroidered effects define frocks worn by a modern young woman, paired with berets and open mesh gloves for chic, adaptable attire.
The feature outlines wool pique as the latest spring fashion, highlighting a white wool pique suit with a straight yoke jacket, a short fitted waist, and a straight skirt with a concealed front pleat. A knitted white blouse with a red and green ascot completes the look, plus a white straw sailor hat with tri color band.
The article notes fashion trends favor simple lines and wearable frocks with smart pin tucks and neat woolen textures. It describes a shift to understated, dressmaker air outfits, avoiding novelty or freak styles. The focus is on practical, stylish daywear.
A description of new hats featuring woven viscu straw, a low rounded crown, a four inch brim tilting over the left eye, and two contrasting color quills standing upright on the left side. Hats slip through the crown for fit and style.
Spring invites outdoor play and Cherie Nicholas suggests a clever overall costume for girls. The model shown features marine blue with red accents and bright red ocean pearl buttons, with matching pearl buttons completing the touch.
Raffia necklaces emerge as a fresh spring fashion trend with braided raffia chokers and waist-length tassels. Designers pair white with black wool dresses and emerald greens with light greens for coordinated looks.
A Lowell lecture in Boston, drawing on Harvard papers, outlines how the Civil War ironclad program began before Sumter. It notes Navy officials studied proposals, selected three experimental designs, and rushed into a large fleet of double turret monitors, including the famed Monitor, highlighting a time lag in weapon innovation and the impact on later wars.
A fragment notes that while the turret remained the raft was not copied by other navies and eventually vanished in ours. It argues mistakes are unavoidable when a new type is built in large numbers at once.
Economic leaders L A Downs Benjamin M Anderson Jr and Senator Otis F Glenn will discuss top issues in the National Farm and Home Hour aired Saturday April 30. The program led by Charles K Snyder will feature farm dailies and NBC microphones to reach livestock producers nationwide.
Enterprising thief steals a two room log cabin on Spauldings Island Maine taking furnishings doors windows partitions and part of the roof. Charles Hall of Rockland reports the loss as a cottage theft with the log structure dismantled.
From George Washington quotes the piece notes rustic pride in farming over empire. It also reflects on silence as encouragement and the misperception of being heard by an auditor. A calm fellowship is described as the foundation of friendship.
A humorous glimpse contrasts Uncle Eben predicting weather with government taxation. The quote notes weather moods prompt comfort when minds change, while government interacts with all through taxation and public approval of judgment.
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