28 Oct 1943
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1943
Page
1
A fashion feature describes fur hat and matching bag ensembles as bold fall accessories. It highlights black seal Cossack hats with jewel ornaments, mink accents, and coordinated brown tones. The piece notes classic silhouettes plus luxe details to elevate day or evening outfits.
Rayon taffeta fabrics for dress-up gowns and blouses are featured in the new fell program. A short dinner dress in black rayon taffeta shows a demure apron front and pele pink ruching. The article notes rayon taffetas now tested for durability and seam slippage and will bear a guidance label.
A fragment describes a dull black sheath dress with lace trim and bodice detailing. The wording suggests a fashion description emphasizing lace and bodice ornamentation.
Durable plastic soles and gabardine uppers create non ration footwear with smart style. Styles include strap sandals with leatherlike wear, Mary Jane platform sandals, gabardine pumps with sensible heels, open toe backless designs, and bow accented grosgrain details.
The beloved trapunto trim remains in fashion for fall and winter. Velveteen garments gain a glamour touch with trapunto quilted design. Ready made frocks appear in stores while DIY guidance and materials are available at fancy work departments to pattern and apply the design.
Designers embrace braid trimming across hats, shoes, bags, coats, and dresses. Elaborate braiding appears on frog fastenings and neck closures, with metal threaded braids and braided boleros. The trend charges the season with bold, distinctive styling.
The piece describes a black off the face hat with a soft crushed brim and pastel pink yarn ruche interwoven with gold thread. It notes an emerald green felt hat trimmed with tassel fringe as a fresh look, reflecting milliners embracing tassel trims in varied lengths.
The piece highlights glamorous gloves and cloisonne feature color with milliners this fall. It notes sequin over blouses for occasions with soft tailored suits, bright magenta wools for afternoon frocks, beaded bumper berets, toddler suspenders, wide-brim beavers in pastels, and jeweled belts for simple frocks.
A wartime appeal urges women aged 21 to 44 to join the Women’s Army Corps. It highlights benefits: steady pay starting at 60 dollars monthly, free living quarters, meals, clothing, laundry, and access to entertainment and training. The piece stresses equal status, remote home duties eased, and the chance to gain education and experience for postwar life.
The article urges women aged between 21 and 44 to join the Women’s Army Corps. It highlights training for postwar jobs, good pay with noncommissioned officers earning $138.40 monthly, no living expenses, but top food and clothing, and army medical care. It frames WACs as evidence of women’s rising national and world roles.
Rio Grande dispatcher T A Powell directs trains over the 10240 foot Continental Divide hump. From his tower he watches north and south lines, handling about 69 movements daily and issuing 124 train orders plus telegraph messages. Powell oversees 175 signal changes per shift and coordinates turning locomotives and yard work at the key traffic board.
A veteran flyer completed 22 ground strafing and bombing missions with no wounds amid 11 months of Pacific warfare. He served with the isth Bombardment group and survived danger until a curbstone injury in Alexandria hospital. Price is the son of Mrs. Margeret Foust of Evans Street.
A damaged report describes a downed flyer who seized a gun near Vella and demanded a weapon. Three hours later the same flyer apparently brought down a bomber on deck, with a crew member recalling witty remarks from the pilot Lieut Fo HS Jessup, 73, of Oakland.
A small mongrel dog woke 4 year old Dorothy Taylor and 46 year old Lorraine Hu in a Chicago apartment by barking at a gas leak. Miss Taylor reported taping cracks and a stove leak, the dog barked, Mel Hill woke and opened windows, summoned the fire department and both sisters were revived by inhalation squad.
William Nobbe, 76, of Winnipeg, arranged his own burial in a Herald parlor signing documents and paying $10 down. He felt well and wanted to be prepared. The next day a freight train struck him on CPR tracks.
A New York office worker placed a nickel in a soft drink vending machine and triggered a burst of about seventy drinks into cups. The rapid, dizzying sequence followed, leaving the employee dazed by the unintended soda binge.
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