Simplicity Wartime Fashions A Boon to Home Dressmakers
Cherie Nicholas notes wartime fabrics and simple cut patterns empower home dressmakers. Practical rayon prints and crepes suit summer frocks, shirtwaists, and a two-piece suit, with color and line ideal for French white sheers and adaptable, affordable garments.
Matching Mantilla in Summer Style Picture
Designers dramatize the ensemble idea with vivid summer styling. The latest sensation is the Cress with its own self fabric or self lace mantilla. Pictured is a street-length dress-up frock in a pale green rayon crepe with a black lace motif and matching mantilla.
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Cress
Pique Fashion Shapes All White Dresses and Gowns
Designers favor pique for dresses and accessories this season with crisp immaculate looks. All white afternoon frocks graduate dresses and evening gowns showcase hand crochet laces and delicate petals for hats and frocks.
Pretty House Dresses Take New Shape for Women
Pretty house dresses rise as many women, new to housework, must tackle chores themselves. Young housewives favor pinafore styles with ruffles and border prints. No iron seersucker button back pinafores meet practical needs and appeal.
Mysterious Lovers Exchange Notes About Lunch and Rose Plans
A string of budding romance unfolds through a series of messenger notes between Pete and Jane. They arrange lunches at Bartlett's, discuss seeing Rose of the Valley, and express deep affection while balancing work commitments and travel, ending with Jane inviting Pete to visit.
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Bartlett’s
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Pete
Bartlett's
Jane
Rose of the Valley
Winter's
Clean Sprayer Neglect Shortens Machine Life
Cleaning and proper care of sprayers are essential after use. Corrosive spray can damage the equipment hourly if neglected, so growers should thoroughly wash out sprayers with clear water each night during the active season.
Trouble with Tom Smith Will Not Change
Kathleen Norris portrays Tom Smith resistant to wartime shifts as his family adapts to war. Emily and Elinor join rallies, buy bonds, and support canteens while Tom protests, clashes over daily life, duties, and sacrifice amid Pearl Harbor era demands.
Tom Smith and the War and Family Duty
Tom Smith resists yet peers into a wartime call to duty. His daughter works in a defense plant while his wife serves in hospital wards. they and he confront why sacrifice matters and how collective effort could become the war's most titanic achievement.
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Tom Smith
America
Fim
Emily
Tom Saith
Flash of Mirror Saves Fliers in Jungle 10 Months
In New Guinea a crashed Liberator nearly two weeks from rescue, three American fliers Eugene Wallace Marvin Hughes and Dalee Bordner and an Australian native rifleman survived ten months in jungle with aid from locals and a flashing mirror that drew a rescue plane. The navigator Hamilton Chisholm signaled the bomber which then landed at low altitude to recover the crew.
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New Guinea
Japherd Rebaul
Bomardier
John Leste Stokie
Rebdsul
Jokie
Hamilton Chisholm
Minneapolis
Everett Wood
Trinidad
Colo
Bordner
Beree
Aumec Jeans
Ennis C. Whitehead
Fifa Air Force
Beccy
Mrmcast
Tieutenent Hughes
Privere Bordnar
Wallace
Share the Ride Scheme Faces West Blowout
CREZEAND CALIF The sharethecide system in the East San Francisco Bay area uses auto placards and Tide-thumbing stations to field national attention for the Civilian Defense council. After two weeks, Chief Co-ordinator John Marr reports the average occupants per car remains 1.76, leaving him disappointed.
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Crezeand
Calif
San Francisco Bay Area
Civilian Defense Council
John Marr
Defense Council
Marr
Dog Hero Saves Girl From Streetcar Tracks
Mike the Irish setter became a neighborhood hero when a streetcar neared three year old Dorene Fors tund. The dog grabbed the girl's dress in his teeth and dragged her off the track as witnesses heard the bark and bell.
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St. Louis
Mike
Dorene Forstund
Two Bandits Strike Twice At Orlando Liquor Store
In Orlando Florida Gerald Van Scoy, owner of a local liquor store, reports two separate robberies on consecutive nights. The first tally of $205 was taken, and twelve days later the same bandits returned and escaped with $75. No injuries reported.
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Orlando
Fla
Gerald van Scoy
Seoy
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