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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
2
Western Newspaper Trice reports on High Style Dinene and Dance Gowns emphasizing quiet elegance. Designers favor crepe fabrics, rich brocades, velvets, and metallic weaves in simple lines that suit both formal wear and daytime use. The piece highlights beadwork and embroidery potential and notes the gowns’ adaptability for teens.
Simple pattern for a handmade apron offered in small to large sizes. Describes fabric options from taffeta to gingham and unbleached muslin, with dye color choices. Notes taffeta adds distinction and suggests gifting to friends or family.
Fashion designers unveil a springlike batch of prints arriving early this season. Bower Prints glow with color as animals, birds, and garden scenes appear in tapestry effects. Knights and peasants appear as playful designs while sewers learn to accessorize with detachable print trims and matching gloves.
Women seek a smartly exotic appearance with towering turbans worn close to the head. Paired with long black dinner gowns, these turbans feature beading, embroidery, and sometimes floral arrangements or minimal trimming to emphasize draping.
CHERLE NICHOLAS surveys the season’s accessory trend with emphasis on scarves pins chatelaines necklaces and jeweled accents. The piece highlights ways to dress up outfits with multiple pins cuffs and fobs while noting the return of Victorian style touches and elegant fur or velvet details.
Lustrous satin-striped taffeta creates a smart gown with pink turquoise and greenish blue V shapes. Side bustie effect and a large pouf skirt balance with an off the shoulder line. Hin dow technique shown for evening and short dress-up gowns.
Fashion notes describe chic scarves featuring United Nations symbols printed in all four corners of a square. Sterling silver barrettes and matching earrings offer a stylish twin set, practical for hair control and decorative appeal.
Mary Purvis writes from New York about Betsy Harwood a 19 year old engaged to a 22 year old Merchant Marine. The piece notes war time strain on romance and marriage urging Betsy to envision a faithful home life and patient effort to grow trust and devotion. It argues time and shared courage can turn frail beginnings into lasting marriages.
Betsy, 19, and Harwood, 22, wed after a two month courtship. He ships out for duty and returns on brief leaves, causing emotional strain. Betsy misses social life and dances, while quarrels over small matters reveal stress of war on a young couple adjusting to married life amid longing and separation.
A traditional pan fry method for small fillets or steaks of fish shows dipping in cold water, coating with a mix of corn meal and salt, heating fat until just smoking, and cooking the fish slowly for about ten minutes per half inch thickness.
Pvt James A Mills of Fort Meade Florida earned the Medal of Honor for a solo assault in a Nazi strong point. He advanced 300 yards under enemy fire, killed multiple gunners with single shots, forced a surrender, and repeatedly exposed himself to cover the platoon’s advance while drawing fire and securing the position. Twenty-two Germans were captured.
Flight Officer Harrison T. Beardsley and six crewmen survived a forced landing in New Guinea after their plane crashed while returning from a mission. Native villagers supplied guides in exchange for fishing hooks and razor blades, enabling a five day trek to safety via villages, a canoe ride, and an Australian outpost.
In Philadelphia the six married sons of 85 year old Mrs. Anna Clampfer delivered grim news. A war telegram reported Pvt. Robert Clampfer killed in France. Mrs. Clampfer collapsed. the family physician confirmed she had died, leaving her sons stunned.
Los Angeles report states actress Betty Dunstan is legally married to two men. She married William Dunstan after learning her previous spouse, William H Baker, was listed as dead. She later encountered Baker on Hollywood Boulevard and obtained an interlocutory decree that won’t finalize for 12 months.
Detroit Mrs Marie Kohn sues Hassin her husband a professional fortune teller for separation alleging he would not take her hand read her palm nor gaze into his crystal ball to ease jealousy and refused mystic lover filters to mend their marriage.
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