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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1943
Page
2
Fashion notes highlight Easter dresses with lace collars, bows, and jabots. Describes organdy trims, satin bows, and navy or black frocks paired with sheer lace, pinwheel collars, and embroidered details. Emphasizes versatile neckwear to transform a simple dress into multiple looks.
A spring fashion feature highlights a powder blue wool coat from a Chicago State Street store. Distinct crocheted collar and patch pockets, pastel pink and blue accessories, and plastic leaf buttons create a novel, conversation worthy look likely to spark a wider vogue.
Junior Miss Styles showcases a colorful collection rejecting Triplean influence with embroidered borders patch pockets and Tyrolean inspired outfits. Bright fleece and corduroy temper the garments while accessories captivate eyes including pelts suspenders and feathered hats.
If youre needle wise you can make these applique prints. The piece explains using cut calico or percale to form cluster designs on bleached muslin or sail cloth. A regulation print effect is achieved with big round patches scattered in a polka dot pattern.
The season showcases diminutive hats with flowers and boutonnieres, veiling and delicate trims. Wide brims feature single roses and foliage, pairing with summer prints and smart gowns, while veiled felts, berets, and calots echo chic, understated romance.
The article notes a surge of border prints in children's fashion, featuring a spring dress showcased at a Chicago Merchandise Mart review. A bright red poppy pattern adorns a pinafore style border, with companion sizes available for five year olds.
Experts advise selecting accessories to match outfits as jungle jewelry made from seeds and nuts gains style appeal. A revival of sheer cottons for nightgowns negligees camisoles and petticoats evokes long ago fashion with embroidery ribbons tucks and delicate trimming.
Kathleen Norris urges Americans to rise above talk of shortages and two do their part. She cites Victory Gardens and reduced meat meals as practical wartime adjustments. Norris offers thrifted menus and home kitchen tips, stressing calm leadership at home to support soldiers abroad.
The text argues that fair play and self control matter in war and sports alike. It condemns whiners who seek handouts and likens their behavior to fouls in baseball, noting no umpire to call them out yet, so others suffer until they learn to play by the rules.
R E B Eldred, chief butter inspector for the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company's Chicago warehouse, is famed as a top butter grader who can identify cream sources and handling by taste and aroma. He uses sample pats to infer cow feed, origin, and storage, noting distinct regional signatures from Skunkweed to alfalfa feeding.
A spring feature explains hydroponics as a fast track for home garden growth. It details seed slips grown in moss balls, transplanted to soil after seven to ten days, yielding early harvests of cabbage lettuce peppers and other vegetables with minimal water and no soil.
A Bombardier from the Army Air Forces, F. Gates Jr., completes a long air sea mission after May 13. He endured shellfire on Guadalcanal during two battles and spent three years and seven days overseas. His mother hosted a luncheon for 13 guests upon his arrival.
A cryptic riddle from a Welsh seer hints at February as the month with the fewest days. The puzzle appears in a collection published by a Welsh university press, noting the February calendar quirk and tying it to a clue about Welsh mystique.
A terse two line summary notes a matrimonial sequence involving Evelyn Phillips and Ebert, detailing that Ebert married Evelyn Po and had prior marriages to Phillips siblings, while Evelyn’s two sisters also married Phillips brothers, revealing a web of marriages within the families.
A 3000 acre browning project in Australia is reported as Merlid in the text. The fragment mentions acres and vegetables but lacks full details, making precise attribution difficult.
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