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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1944
Page
2
A fashion note praises sheer black lace as a season highlight for evening and dinner gowns. It describes a sheer top as a standout feature and a sprightly lace peplum lined with horsehair to create a ripple effect.
A rising fashion fad sees monogrammed pockets and sweaters become popular on campuses. The trend encourages girls to embroider monograms in bright yarns to give blazers and knitwear a distinctive look.
A stylish black suit features discreet ermine accents at fashionable gatherings. Off the face hat design and wide ermine cuffs enhance the look, while a youthful style uses snowy ermine collar and tiny tail clusters for refined flair.
A clever season begins with dressmaker trims around the armhole using a contrast fabric band or embroidery and beadwork. The piece highlights subtle alterations adding texture and style to garments.
A fashion feature urges women to choose carefully crafted accessories for fall and winter wardrobes. It highlights leopard fur accents, black and white ensembles, ermine details, jeweled belts, and ostrich motifs as key trends from standout costume collections.
A wartime letter from a Los Angeles wife describes Jean and Carleton, a couple awaiting his return after seven months in England and a radical war injury. Norris counsels resilience, suggests reopening a private hotel with mother, keeping or improving work, and treating the homecoming as a normal reintegration into his architectural studies. He is wounded, embittered, yet alive. the guide urges practical steps and hopeful resolve.
The dress appears as a two piece outfit but is in fact a single garment with an attached jerkin. It is well cut and designed to convey chic for a student. In black flannel and wool, with contrasting jerkin trim, it features a flattering throat bow and new sleeve length.
An inventive designer debuts a black Persian lamb hat that converts to ear muffs. The season showcases jewel encrusted key motifs on pins and clips, dangling waist fobs, lapel ornaments, and bracelet charms. A camisole top of crepe embroidered with beads offers a festive option to pair with floor length skirts, with optional chiffon stole or bolero for a complete up-to-date formal look.
A paratrooper comes home to his young wife Jean, who dreads the change. He lost his right arm in France and fears life with a new left handed life. Miss Norris urges adjustment and resilience for a hopeful future together.
A reflective wartime letter urges embracing injured individuals like Carleton, arguing that losing an arm does not doom ability or purpose. It shares examples of successful one armed professionals, athletes, and artists, and encourages family and teachers to integrate him, offer work, and foster ambition while valuing love and companionship.
The article explains fall composting using dead plant tops, leaves, weeds, and other garden waste. It describes alternating layers of organic material with soil or manure, keeping the pile moist to speed rotting, and shaping it flat or slightly hollow to absorb rain and snow.
Two doctors exposed to extreme altitude at 42 000 feet for science developed active tuberculosis of the lungs, linked to thin air reopening healed tubercular spots. The experiments, conducted by Barach Johnson and Rule of Columbia University, left the physicians unnamed but they recovered. Researchers described high altitude chokes from nitrogen bubbles in blood and tissues, a danger to aviators. Cincinnati College of Medicine scientists attributed chokes to aero embolism and similar to bends, noting they risk oxygen mask use.
Rome reports the Alps have executed 16 German-hired Italian spies with many more condemned. Since June, over 100 enemy agents have been arrested, mostly in Rome, with hearings and trials planned. An Allied statement warns Italians still aiding Germans to surrender, noting those who do so are treated as alive.
An American camp in Omaha area reports a German prisoner, captured near Cherbourg, was severely beaten by fellow inmates for attempting to write to his father. The assailants argued the father was not a good Nazi, while the prisoner insisted on the letter. He was taken to the camp hospital for injuries.
Washington reports that the army and navy postal services have transmitted 789,539,390 V-mail letters for overseas service since 1942. April delivery peaked with 63,425,405 army and 36,060,703 navy letters. The army total is 689,536,938. the navy 100,002,451 since 1943. Plans aim to establish a three V-mail station in France.
Hatfield and McCoy kin from Sprigg and Avondale in West Virginia say their feud is diverted to fighting Hitler as U.S. patrols close on Paris and Versailles outskirts. Homer L. McCoy explains the aim is a united effort against the Nazi foe.
At Fort McPherson Georgia wounded Italian prisoner of war Michele Pasanino watched a hospital cinema show. He suddenly cried out upon seeing himself being captured in the Battle of Tunisia by an English unit.
In Columbia South Carolina a market sign proclaims a message to servicemen promoting free peanut rations for those who are broke. The note reads Pree peanuts to any serviceman broke indicating wartime aid for military personnel.
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