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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1944
Page
2
Cherie Nicholas reports on outdoor play fashion embracing pet motifs. Designers imagine playful looks with sportswear and swim options in rayon and satin. Bright prints and textured fabrics appear in beach ready suits and dramatic silhouettes, highlighting novelty fabrics and vibrant color contrasts.
A cotton playsuit from Chicago Fashion Industries offers a smart fashion touch for golf, featuring a low-cut neck and shoulder straps. The outfit, coordinated with a matching skirt, showcases the season’s surge in swank cottons for players as summer wear gains popularity on the course.
A fashion note previews a forthcoming trend: a simple narrow shirt paired with two elegant long-torso blouses in rich fabrics. Deluxes include a white crepe tunic with bead embroidery in red, gold, lime, and green, and a black laceward style with a self-fabric bow at the hip.
Raincoats mix gabardine and elkskin as fashion grows smarter. Coats in bright red gabardine feature a hussein cassock-inspired design and garment makers highlight rainwear that also doubles as topcoats or wraps on chilly days.
A remark on fresh fabric prints this season highlights a lip imprint silk with a white background and natural lip patterns resembling a drugstore color scheme. The note comments on its novelty and striking design among new textiles.
Mary Anderson of the U S labor department warns that rubber shortages threaten corsets girdles and other supporting garments used by women in war work. She urges conserving existing rubber containing garments by fitting repairing cleaning airing and careful handling to extend their life and support civilian and military production.
Linen type wagon ress in deep green with white lace crochet details offers cool sleeves and decorative pockets. Accessible model available in several colors including black linen, ideal to refresh a jumper frock with a smart touch. Crocheters can easily make sleeves and pockets as shown. results promise appeal.
Style notes describe sleeker silhouettes with peplums tunics capes and drapes. Lightweight sheer afternoon dresses in almond green or gray lead summer fashion while slipper satin fabrics shine. White starched cotton lace hats and simple round necklines with fabric cord complete the look.
Kathleen Norris recounts a chaotic family case as daughter Diana, 19, clings to Lieut. Kron, a married father of three, while her parents urge patience. Diana travels with him, defies conventions, and seeks a divorce from Kron's wife, sparking a troubling household struggle across the nation.
A 19 year old, Diana Brown, declares love for a married army officer with three children. She contemplates fleeing to New Mexico when he is stationed there and has urged his wife to grant a divorce. Her mother faces a hard choice as Diana may reject conventional limits, risking heartbreak and rebellion. The article discusses tactics and potential drastic steps to curb the affair.
A distressed portrait of social stigma and rumored affairs involving a young woman of 18. The text contrasts two cases Betty and Diaza, notes harsh judgments on working girls, and argues that a married man who betrays a young lover should face severe consequences and legal action.
Dr. Willard C. Thompson of Rutgers University says pullets grow best in wide open fields during summer. Provide abundant sunshine with shaded shelter for relief, access to juicy greens like alfalfa jadine clover red clover and grasses, steady mash and grain rations, and clean cool water in a shaded comfortable spot.
The tank Double Trouble returned from Alban hills at dusk with a hole in its nose, wine in a water can, and 13 German prisoners. Sergeant Ralph Johnson, a 22-year-old from Louisville, claimed they would swap it for another tank that night as they pressed toward the Cisterna Rome line. Gunner Arthur Boenze fired at targets as Lieut Welter Russell, after losing his own tank, joined the crew and continued the assault amid heavy fire and machine gun bursts. A German shell dented the tank face and halted the advance briefly before resuming the attack.
Detroit report states 15 year old Doris Neal killed her father Jacob Neal after a kitchen argument over boiling eggs. Doris said the father struck her, then chased her before she shot him three times, including a forehead and chest blasts, inside their home.
In Newark a fox terrier named Tony was reunited with his owner Mirg Gertrede Vachal after eight days in a parking lot. Firefighters spotted the dog at Engine Company 2 near Centre Fire, where Captain Jaz Walsh recognized Tony from photos as he trotted to the firehouse.
A four engine bomber from the town army air base flew over parts of two states for four hours with no crew aboard before crashing two miles northwest of Denison Iowa. Ten crew members and nine bombardier instructors bailed out as the ship broke up. The wreckage lies near Belden and Wayne in northeastern Nebraska. No one was seriously injured.
In Yonkers New York Mrs Elizabeth Pyty reports that blue jays attacked her three month old daughter Carol after she forgot to scatter bread for them. The baby sustained facial wounds requiring care. The family’s dog finally drove off the birds.
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