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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1939
Page
8
The article promotes hand crocheted mercerized cotton dresses suited to hot days and cool weather. It highlights ease of making, supplier tips, and fashion notes on fit, puffed shoulders, zipper closures, and belts, with emphasis on young and mature figures and the season’s crochet styling.
Edith Head, Hollywoods top designer, foresees lavish fall and winter fashion with romantic fabrics. She predicts individuality over fads, looser skirts or coats, and silhouettes focusing on luxurious materials like velvet, with tailored purpose models and a move away from uniform styling.
The description highlights a white silk chiffon evening dress with red polka dots. Accessories include a halo hat matching a kid belt tied with a fabric bow and a new bubble glass bracelet that refracts prismatic colors. The scene notes country club wear and city roofs under starry skies with music in the air.
Dr. James W. Barton explains prevention of deafness in children centers on nasal health. Blocked noses from enlarged turbinates, bent septum, adenoids, or enlarged tonsils lead to ear pressure changes and middle ear inflammation. He cites Dr. Harold Walker urging nasal breathing through hygiene and obstruction removal by surgery or X-ray.
Dr Anthony Cipollaro warns electrolysis is unsafe in unskilled hands and can injure the skin. The article outlines careful technique including test doses and minimal current, advising against inflamed areas and removing few hairs at a time to avoid inflammation.
New York feature notes violinist Jascha Heifetz agreed to act for Sam Goldwyn in a forthcoming motion picture. His reluctance stemmed from screen age issues and soundtrack doubts, while his wife Florence Victor’s influence and past stage ventures also loom large in the decision. Paul Robeson’s career arc and a Rutgers football past are briefly recalled alongside Robeson’s dramatic family church-borrowing anecdote.
Mrs Spears shares summer cotton cushion covers and winter silk covers made from worn dress skirts. Instructions describe creating edge joins, turning, pressing, and assembling sections. Also offers two sewing books for order with a Rag Leaflet and Patchwork Quilt Leaflet free with two-book orders.
A gold plated silk fabric described in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry coats a silk dress with a gold salt solution then decomposes to leave pure gold on the fiber. The process costs about three dollars per yard and allows recovery of the gold when the garment wears out. The dress was recently shown in England.
Home advice covers refrigerating oils to prevent rancidity and reading can labels for can contents. It also includes trellis spacing for air circulation, using leftovers as fillings, bread box cleaning for summer, removing cigarette stains from brass trays, and cleaning suede with softened dust and emery rubbing for pile care.
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