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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
8
The article surveys midsummer fashions favoring pastels for tailored daywear and linen outfits noted for wrinkle resistance. It highlights pastel crepes, sheer wools, and linen tones such as pinks greens and blues with details like umbrella-tucked skirts and matching jackets.
An archival clipping describes 1939 fashion for children's play outfits. Items include striped cotton skirts with floral touches, buff-sleeved tops, ticking fabrics, square-necked frocks with shorts, and white pique rayon pieces.
Partial OCR text mentions designers and enthusiasm bounds and a phrase toward tailoring. No clear event or entities to confirm a full news item.
A group of four creators launches a Burme project featuring handkerchiefs that depict memorable events in American history. Designs include motifs tied to ark Mississippi, Covered Wagon, Mount Vernon, and the Landing of the Pilgrims, among others.
Dr. James W. Barton reports that despite insulin for diabetes and liver extract for pernicious anemia, the cause of cancer remains unknown. Early biopsy and modern treatments, including surgery and radiotherapy, improve lip cancer outcomes with high cure rates, while tongue and cheek cancers show about 60 percent cures.
An article argues regular simple exercise aids circulation and heart health. It cites a Manchester study by Shaw and Richards comparing hospitals with and without post operative exercises, noting embolus cases five times higher without movement. It describes easy movements like lifting arms and leg raises and urges gentle activity for most people.
Longtime engineering officer Brig. Gen Harley B. Ferguson, 64, nearing retirement, shaped flood control and river projects from the Mississippi to the St Lawrence. His career includes West Point from Waynesville NC, command roles in Milwaukee and New Orleans, and chief engineer duties in France during World War I.
A reader praises Mrs Spears books for slip covers and crewel work diagrams and asks for durable bright cushions. The note promotes Sewing for the Home Decorator and Gifts Novelties and Embroideries at 15 cents each or 25 cents for both, with leaflets included and a Chicago mailing address for orders.
A series of queries explores topics from solvents to architecture. Questions touch on the greatest solvent, why acorns appear in colonial carvings, the meaning of the great American novel, who called architecture frozen music, the meaning of corn, why birds tilt heads when drinking, and why ice appears white when scraped.
The text lists water as dissolving many substances and notes it as a symbol of hospitality. It cites a dream of a novel yet unwritten, touches Goethe on architecture, and mentions maize rice oats rye wheat across nationalities. It notes pigeons drink by suction and comments on scraping leaves reflecting light to look white.
Ohio Governor John W Bricker calls for restoring public confidence in government through disciplined and businesslike management of public affairs. He emphasizes accountability and ethical conduct to sustain representative government.
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