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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1935
Page
9
Cherie Nicholas notes fur coats add bold elegance to bright wool frocks as fashion shifts to wearable fur suits and flashy swaggers. The piece highlights mink, sable, Hudson seal, and other furs, praising double skins, two point collars, swaggers, and balloon sleeves while predicting a nationwide fur week with dramatic displays.
Reports from Paris say Lucien Lelong and other leading couturiers back the feather boa in renaissance hues and in white and black. A long dyed ostrich boa drapes gracefully across the shoulders with a large ostrich fan and a white satin gown featuring a deep decolletage.
Designers revive the bustle with back fullness shaping current evening gowns. Variations include looped drapery panels peplums and back sashes while the front remains slim and straight. The trend reimagines grandmother era silhouettes for contemporary fit and drama.
A 19th century tale recalls a mysterious Utah city with a rich silver and gold mine near A3peo Coto. A lone traveler carried ore to Leadville then vanished. A Meeker expedition pursued the tale, finding two graves of a prospector and a cowboy, with the mine’s location still unfound near the Grand Canyon head.
Paris shops present tailored underwear in crepe de chine and satin with delicate embroidery. Taffeta skirt designs with ruching form petticoats under evening gowns, making the gown swing gracefully as dances unfold.
A new fur wrap features no sleeves with two large fur buttons at each shoulder. Worn over a bright color dress, it creates an elegant costume suitable for formal wear.
Two prospectors Murphy and Thomas trek west of Sonora and discover a sealed masonry wall behind which a 150 foot tunnel reveals jadeite statues and a two foot gold vein in the tunnel breast. An American assayer joins as third partner but is killed en route by Yaqui attackers, leaving the wall’s location still secret.
A stamped muslin embroidery design for a 15 by 20 inch laundry bag is offered. It requires sewing and a wire hanger, with hanger and crochet cotton not included. Mailed for 1a cents from Home Craft Co. Dept A, Nineteenth and St Louis Ave, St Louis Mo. Include a stamped reply envelope for information.
A reflective excerpt quotes Philips Brooks on life, urging open eyes and perspective to avoid monotony. It contrasts personal perception with the world’s steadiness, implying vitality comes from attentive living.
The age of Yellowstone National Park hot springs is inferred from travertine deposits containing radium. Prof. Herman Schlundt of the University of Missouri estimates Terrace mountain springs at 14 000 years old. Liberty Cap is about 2 500 years old and Hotel Terrace around 3 200.
Patrol car in La Crosse Wisconsin uses bulletproof tires and triple laminated glass with bullet resisting steel frames. A hardened steel fire mesh guards the radiator and bullet resisting guards protect tires and driving compartment tines. A gun port in the windshield allows forward firing.
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