Luxury Look Sets Tone for Fur Coats in Shorter Lengths
Fashion writer notes shorter fur coat lengths with bold sleeves featuring mink and broadtail. Describes four skin scarves for shoulder emphasis on collarless coats, with black Russian broadtail toppers and bright color pairings. Highlights modern wearability, from full length march to fall lengths, and calls out stylish combinations with royal blue and fuchsia.
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Jalsa
Wesern
Ora
Chien
Velveteen Skirt Brings Colorful Fall Fashion
A fashion note praises a green velvet teen skirt as the season’s smart choice. It pairs with brown and white checked poplin and dressy pieces like a sequinned jersey blouse, highlighting bold velveteen as a key autumn winter trend for girls into high style cottons.
Revival of Stoles in Early Victorian Fashion
The article notes a revival of fur stoles and related textiles in early Victorian fashion. It highlights gray fox stoles, ermine scarves, and long ostrich-hat neckpieces as key items. It also mentions matching with tailored suits, three-yard chiffon scarves, and a trend toward slim evening gowns with sequin borders.
Rich Dinner Suits Machade in New Diner Styles
Rich dinner suits are being made over into new diner styles with elegant brocades and feecuard weaves not typical for tailored suits. These stunning outfits are tailored to a wheety with jewelry buttons as the main decor and sometimes a richly ornamented belt with the skirt and blouse.
White With Plaid Hobby Style Sparks School Fashion Interest
A new fashion trend targets college and school girls featuring a white blazer paired with a four plaid skirt. The look uses bright binding on the blazer edges, creating a distinctive color scheme and chic gesture.
Glittering Sequins Take Over Daywear and Scarves
Sequin embellishments spread from gala gowns to everyday fashion with jewel embroidery on sweaters dresses and even caps. Sequined scarves belts and waistcoats add color and sparkle to outfits as shoppers seek two glitter accessories for versatility.
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Cherye Nicholas
Colerial
Ling Tho
Fall Fashion Notes Signal Return of Victorian Style
Style notes describe opulent fall fashions with ostrich accents and rich colors like Russian yellow for wool coats. Black frocks and tailored jackets with capes dominate, while fur and sequined fabrics point to a revival of early Victorian elegance amid strong demand for dinner and cocktail gowns.
A War Time Woman Seeks a Way Out of Drudgery
Maria, trapped by war demands, rising prices, and three young children, hates her life and her husband Matt. She dreams of money, help, and glamour yet resists the hard truth that fulfillment lies in acceptance and changing her own character.
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Kathleen Norris
Arna Wilkins
Marna
Matt
America
Marylyn
Eittle
Maria
A Way Out For A Troubled Teoman Wife
A young wife and mother with three children endures war hardships and fatigue. Her salesman husband is healthy and active. She longs for freedom, money, and servants, comparing herself to career women, seeking a quick escape from endless drudgery.
Women Forge Through Hard Times With Family On The Farm
A feature profiles American women adapting to changed lives by taking practical steps for their families. One mother of four runs a farm with her sons while her husband serves abroad, selling produce on weekends and planning a future veterinary career for him. The piece highlights resilience, self-reliance, and collective family effort as paths through hardship.
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Cam
South Seas
Marca
Applesauce Making Tips From Historic Cook Guide
Applesauce retains best flavor when peeled, cured and cooked briefly in a tightly covered pan with minimal water to prevent scorching. Use little sugar or sugar substitutes. One third cup sugar to 144 pounds of apples yields about one quart of tart sauce for meat. dessert versions may use honey or syrup.
Knocked Out but Keeps on Flying
Lieut. Comdr. John D. Blitch of Charleston commanded a Curtiss Hell diver squadron in the Pacific. After being hit by a Japanese bullet and losing consciousness his plane flew about 280 miles back to the carrier before crashing. Rescued after drifting 40 hours on a rubber raft, the pilot said a surge of instinct or divine aid revived him.
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Columbus
Orio
Curtiss-Wright
John D. Butch
Charleston
S. C
Pacific
Butch
Blitch
Johnny Blitch
Blind GI George Klym Dies After Heroic Night Watch
Pvt. George Klym of Gorham North Dakota, blinded and mortally wounded, remained at his foxhole post during a Japanese night assault. Even in darkness he fired with an automatic rifle, drawing fire and enabling his unit to rally. He died after urging to be kept firing.
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Astape
New Guinea
George Klym
Gorham
N. D
Kijm
Jap Slain While Church Rites in Guam Go Ahead
In Agana Guam a strange scene unfolds as a Japanese soldier is killed during church rites. Services continued with a damaged organ in a ruined church while Japanese soldiers entered the town overnight, drawing danger within yards of the church. The organist and singers maintained the hymn as a gunfire interrupted the ceremony.
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Guam
Agans
Waren
Janenese Lersult
Sentry Fails to Stop Bull Fleeing Soldier Clings to Tree
Cors Paul Tracy of San Pedro California on night patrol shouted at a shadow but met a fierce bull instead. The angry bovine charged near the officer, who quickly dashed up a tree to escape the animal.
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Hal
Bull
Carson
Cors
Paul Tracy
Sant Pedro
Cal
Tracy
Alt
Treey
Death by own action rocks Pittsburgh official’s daughter
Washington report states Phyllis Murray 25 daughter of James J. Murray a maritime commission official lay in weeds 20 hours with a broken leg after swallowing rat poison and leaping from a 200 foot Rock Creek cliff. No motive given by either Murray.
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Lee Washington
Phyllis Murray
Miss Murray
James J. Murray
Pittsburgh
Maritime Commission
Rock Creek Park
Sheriff Kills Dog After Mountain Lion Shooting
In Los Angeles a deputy mistook a dog for a mountain lion and shot. He shot the animal and killed the 13 year old boy who was with it. The incident occurred while the boy rode with a companion. The deputy is investigating the event.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Seymour
Drowns in Drain In New York Five year old dies clearing drain
In a heavy rainstorm, five year old Alex Nimmo tried to clear a roof drain. Suction pulled his arm into the drain and his head under water, drowning him according to reports.
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New York
Alex Nimmo
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