Fall Fabrics Emphasize Color and Practical Wear
Cherie Nicholas notes this season's fabrics favor color and serviceability with durable, washable materials. Weaves tailored for fall demand showcase sturdy dresses, comfortable motifs, and versatile colors like dark green with lime and black with blue. Dressy fabrics include rayons, moires, brocades, and jeweled buttons, aimed at affordable glamour and easy care.
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Cherbourg
Parma
Adresse
Tor
Reyon
Raron Vetrets
Orton
Belts of Medieval Splendor in Luxurious Women’s Accessories
Exquisite belts emerge as a style focus with bejeweled and embroidered designs. From helm motifs to velvet belts with gold thread and pearls, to ornate scrollwork and colorful stones, these pieces elevate simple outfits. Beauvais embroidery adds dressiness to suede belts, while bright green bundled styles feature floral motifs.
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Beauvais
Sweater Dress Becomes Practical Fashion News Trend
A new sweater dress emerges as practical and stylish in the fashion scene. The featured model pairs a gray and white knit sweater with a black skirt and long-torso jacket, completed by a fox stole over one shoulder. The style aims for versatile wearability around town and through daily activities.
Dramatic Color Dominates This Season in Fashion
Cherie N. Nicholas notes fashion centers embrace bold color for women’s attire amid fabric limits. Dramatic pairings and tri color combinations showcase Cherbourg blue, Parma blue, blueberry with fuchsia, greens like scarab with deep forest, citron green, lime, and Victorian putty gray. Russian yellow tops coats, with color-contrasted trimmings and two color dresses and blouses.
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Cherie
Nicholas
Deen Forest
Parma
Marabout Hat Muff Show Promises Bold Winter Fashion
A teaser describes the upcoming winter social season with dramatic feather and fur hats. The marabout wrought cocoa felt hat features a heart-shaped brim edged in fluffy marabout. The matching muff and numerous marabout accents on neckpieces and hat trims signal a striking new millinery trend.
Fadts and Fancies Color Charts Inspire Winter Costume Wear
Fadts and Fancies notes color charts across stores guiding color contrast for winter outfits. Shoes feature black crocheted slippers with bronze specks and bright wool options with multicolor sequins. Lingerie trends include bright red knitted underwear and college shop knits in a wool rayon mix, signaling a bold fashion swing.
We Were Married in October In Two Years Of Age
Betty Pearson writes from Oklahoma about marriage during wartime. She and Bobby began happily in Florida before Guadalcanal service, then news of a baby, his resistance, and a hard separation. She kept hope, bore the child in a ward, and now cares for Margaret while Bobby plans homecoming and work, amid fear of his maimed hand and limited space.
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Betty Pearson
Oklahoma
Camp
Florida
Bobby
Guadalcanal
Boboy
Margaret
Bob
Detley
Emily
Understanding the War's Effect on Returning Loved Ones
A reflection on how the hardships of war alter the dispositions of returning soldiers. The piece notes their inward sameness beneath changed attitudes and stresses restoring tolerance and balance to revive ordinary family life, acknowledging the sacrifices of loved ones worldwide.
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Orld
Rebuilding a Florida Home After War and Promise
The writer urges Betty to consider happiness over divorce with Bob, noting his prewar charm and recent changes. The letter suggests patience, a calm reunion, and inviting him to reconnect in a shared home, exploring a peaceful path for their family and the baby.
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Bob
Ferm Machinery Company
Teal
Row
Betty
Florida
Emily
Sugar as brain food says Dr. Barnes
Philadelphia scientist Dr. T Cunliffe Barnes told the American Society of Zoologists that sugar acts as brain food and that brain wave studies show blood sugar levels control the brain's electrical potential frequency and amplitude.
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American Society of Zoologists
T. Cunliffe Barnes
Philadelphia
Legless farmer works own farm in Ashland Ohio
Ashland Ohio reports Frans Piper, a legless farmer, cultivates 156 acres five miles west and 11 adjoining with a neighbor. Despite no limbs and past tragedy, Piper farms with horses and a tractor, using improvised techniques, doing heavy work with apparent efficiency and independence.
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Ashland
Ohio
Frans Piper
Piper
Here
Quick-Thinking Mother Rescues Baby From Flooded Tub
In Chicago a 104 month old James Fredericks was saved after his mother Lorraine Fredericks pulled him from a flooded tub and breathed into his mouth until Rescue Squad 5 arrived. Firemen revived the child after a lengthy effort. The mother had previously lost her job in an industrial accident years ago.
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Chicago
James Fredericks
Lorraine Fredericks
Coll
Fred
Bobby
Abs. Fredericks
Acress
Forence
Paratrooper Saved By Pal In Mid-Air Rescue
Paratrooper Floya Oliver of Waltiron Indiana survived a 700 foot fall after fellow airman Pic William Lively of Dale rasp Texas swung into action. Lively grabbed Oliver’s parachute and wrapped it around his body to slow the descent, landing safely with Oliver sustaining only a minor back injury.
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Pal
Seth
Lively
Oliver
40,000 Mile Auto Tour Cashing Bad Checks
Portland police say Marion Miller Stinson of Seattle and Gladys Kay Wheelidon of Monroe were caught cashing about $30,000 in worthless checks across 40 states in six months on a 40,000 mile tour. They admitted using gasoline bought without coupons and even convinced a sheriff to cash a $125 check.
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Portland
Obe
Marion Miller Stinson
Seattle
Wash
Gladys Kay Wheelidon
Monroe
Wasi
Stinson
Tire swap mystery baffles Toledo police
In Toledo Ohio a thief stole tires from Woodrow Wagners car and left a replacement that was usable but not as long. Police described the act as a thoughtful theft and said the incident is under investigation.
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Toledo
Ohio
Woodrow Wagners
Firemen Extinguish Blaze. Truck Imbued Fire
Americus firemen responding to an alarm found the blaze extinguished but their fire truck was on fire. The vehicle was not seriously damaged.
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Americus, GA
Americus
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