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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1944
Page
2
A vintage piece suggests affordable quilting ideas for home sewers. It notes costs under ten dollars for fabric and notions, describes practical items like a puffed jacket, beret, muff, and reversible bathrobes, and highlights warmth and patriotic styling with simple patches and ready sketches.
A fashion item highlights a stylish mink coat with back view emphasis and new styling techniques. Esther Dorothy showcases blond chiffon mink with a full swing back and blouse, featuring a drop shoulder line and extra wide turned back sleeves.
A lively trend shows many little girls wearing jumper frocks in a variety of materials and colors. Popular options include velveteen plaid wool and corduroy, with spuns rayon and gebardire also used. Bright trims like velvet ribbons finish the cheerful outfits for parties and daily wear.
Rayon plaid taffeta dominates outfits with dresses blouses and overblouses. Women embrace bustle-back bows and large tied bows at the hipline. Accessories like ascots turbans and gloves appear in plaid for coordinated evening styles.
White creates dramatic impact in current evening style alongside black and color. Trends include chic jacket blouses, torso blouses, and simple tuck-in blouses in white crepe with crystal beadwork, white brocade, or all-white frocks. Budget options include white jersey party dresses with gold accessories and fur capes for festive nights.
An exhibit of black velvet and ostrich feather accents evokes Victorian luxury. The gown features a low neckline, sculpted bodice, and a straight skirt, shaping the new silhouette for the season. The ostrich feather adornment sits in a forward tilt, completing the elegant ensemble.
Style notes highlight ale brown as the season’s smart color and the popularity of stoles as accessories. Evening costumes feature wool and velvet capes with sequin epaulets. floor length sheath skirts reappear with Ascot ties and multicolor sequin embroidery for day wear.
Barbara White shares a long, painful search for a child through adoption after years of infertility. In a clarifying letter, Kathleen Norris urges a broader view of society’s pressures, encouraging Barbara to embrace adoption while recognizing the wider harms of broken families and unfit parenting, urging inner resolve and gratitude for the chance to help a child in need.
Barbara, unable to have a child, recounts adopting Babsie and Sonia, then losing them to their mother. Since then she longs for another baby, facing repeated rejections and growing bitterness toward mothers. She asks Miss Norris for advice in this personal crisis.
May E. Foley, extension nutritionist at Massachusetts State College, argues for a substantial lunch for students and workers. A proper midday meal should supply one third of daily nutrition, including fruit or vegetable, a hearty protein, whole grain bread, something sweet, and milk. A thermos can add hot soup or chocolate.
A 22 year old blind woman from Reedsport Oregon married Pvt. Foster Pierson a 30 year old army private from Independence Missouri in Kansas City. The ceremony occurred in Judge Tucker’s county courthouse office. The bride Vine Baldwin wore a blue silk dress and a white shoulder flower. She had lived alone in a trailer and worked as a dishwasher while saving 13 quarts of canned goods. They plan a brief honeymoon and a possible trip to her parents’ home in Camas Valley Oregon before he returns to Jefferson Barracks Missouri. They met five years ago when Pierson worked in her hometown. The bride lost her sight and her hand at age four from dynamite cap accidents.
American airborne troops in Holland rescue a deserted infant found in a village crib as their squad returns from patrols into Germany. Dutch nurse takes charge while Cent William Serraees of Ferview Village Ohio notes troops faced heavy shelling near a river highway bridge. Captain Schmees praises troopers for their stamina amid the fighting.
Miss Reva Baty, 20, of Carlyle begins divorce proceedings after suspecting her husband James Hing a three times married man formerly a second lieutenant in the army air forces now posing as a private to avoid saluting noncommissioned officers. Court records show previous wives divorced, attorney Joseph Schlarmann confirms.
A Pearl Harbor era report describes a low flying aircraft slicing through a tree to strike a Japanese sniper near Tinian. The crew did not spot the target until close, and the pilot chose to fly through the tree rather than zoom past.
S44,000 in New York currency taken in three robberies staged by armed holdup men in Manhattan and Brooklyn within a few hours. About $45,000 in currency escaped with the suspects in the spree.
Captain B. H. Valentine, a wounded officer, was loaded onto a plane to return to England from France when a nurse greeted him with Hello, Honey. It was his wife identifying herself in a touching wartime reunion.
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