Romance Returns in Summer Frock Silhouettes and Sheer Fabrics
The season favors airy frocks in mousseline and organza with floor grazing lines and ballerina silhouettes. White mousseline gowns, sheer redingotes in two-tone chiffon, and bolero ensembles lead the trend alongside plaid transparent silks and triple sheer fabrics. Finished with embroidery, lace borders, and floral appliques, the outfits spotlight elegance for day and night attire, from waltz-hour frocks to moonlit bolero dresses.
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Western Newspaper Union
Costume Accents From Cherie Nicholas Hat Design
Fashion piece by Cherie Nicholas explores a daisy themed hat by Jean Ring. It features soft white petals with bold yellow centers, a rough natural straw weave brim, and a tilted Victorian hex design with a gold highlight.
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Jean Ring
Contagion and colors cited in a brief note
A fragmented note discusses contagion and color choices, mentioning availability and timing. The text references comets in orbit and seeks broader access to colors by 80wn. Details are unclear but imply a planning or design context with color options and calendar constraints.
Gloves Complete Finishing Touch For Graduates This Season
Gloves have long signified refinement and now graduates should consider them essential with white dresses for ceremonies and spring proms. Choose from short formal to knee length styles to complement youthful outfits, enhancing the overall dressiness of the diploma moment.
Smart Coats and Redingotes Steal the Style Spotlight
The fitted slightly flared coat is ace high in chic and will be seen in numbers. Redingotes are a fashion favorite. Short coats have come to town pruned from last year's full swagger lines to a straighter box cut.
Overalls Update For Summer Surf Wear
A fashion note describes summer overalls with turnable cuffs for wading in the surf. The latest adaptation of last year’s popular style barely reaches the knee and appears very baggy. The characteristic overall straps remain the same.
Turkey prospects for poults hit by high feed costs
New York state breeders face breakeven pricing on poults despite high feed costs. Cornell vets report pullorum control is good in state flocks, while other states cite risks. Early season feed costs rise for commercial growers, but a good wheat and corn harvest could lower turkey rations from July onward, improving 1937 prospects.
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Y. Smith
New York
Portable Brooder House Favored by Specialist
A round-roof portable brooder house, lighter and easier to move, aids farm poultry in 1937 says Cora E. Cooke University Farm St Paul. It heats easily with less head space. four side windows provide even light and ventilation for all weather. a 12 by 14 foot double-floor houses up to 400 chicks or 250 turkeys. roosts slope along the sides. 500-chick stove and 12 by 14 feeding porch options.
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Farm Poultry Enterprise
Cora E. Cooke
University Farm
St. Paul
Discing Lespedeza Seed in Oats Recommended
Discing or drilling Korean lespedeza into oats is advised for safe seeding. Seedings are usually broadcast and should not be buried more than an inch. If mixing with oats, seed as lightly as possible and cover lightly. These steps align with guidance from the Indiana Farmer's Guide and comparable to red clover in wheat.
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Indiana
Raising Broiler Birds Cross of Rhode Island Red and Barred Rock
A guide notes that crossing Rhode Island Red hens with Barred Rock males yields a popular broiler bird. They grow fast and are easier to raise than pure breeds. Broilers start on chick starter, move to grain or all mash, with a special ration aiding flesh. Dress-out losses range 13 to 14 percent.
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Rhode Island
Down on the Farm 1936 U S hay production and Texas terracing
The 1936 U S hay output is estimated at 70 165 000 tons and about 4 000 000 acres in Texas were terraced or contoured. Wool values rise with proper growth and market prep. Soil erosion is wind or water caused. Good pasture lowers livestock feed costs. Ohio State agronomists call pasture improvement an investment rather than expense.
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United States
Texas
Ohio State University
Way Back When Clark Gable from Cadiz to stardom
This recollection sketches Clark Gable born 1900 in Cadiz Ohio later in Hopedale. A regular American boy with outdoor loves he faced poverty and worked at diverse jobs from age seventeen. He rose through stock theater and film to win the 1934 best picture award for It Happened One Night.
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Lark Gable
Cadiz
Ohio
Hopedale
Clark Gable
Ike
Motion Picture
Carl Sandburg: A Restless Jack of All Trades
Biographical sketch of Carl Sandburg tracing his poverty born start in Galesburg Indiana to 1878, listing many early jobs from milk wagon to barber shop, theater scene shifter and more. The piece notes his war service, college years, rise at Chicago Daily News, and later fame for Lincoln biography and mass of poems about common people. The tone reflects a portrait of a restless, hardworking writer who knew many people, jobs, and problems.
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Carl Sandburg
Galesburg
Boots
Kansas Wheat Fields
Lombard College
Galesburg Daily Mail
Chicago Daily News
Lincoln
WNU Service
Fashionable Sew-Your-Own Patterns Promotes Summer Frocks
The Sewing Circle Pattern advertises three versatile dresses for Misses and warm weather wear. It highlights a matinee shorter model, a chic all occasion dress, and a swift ready-to-wear spectator frock. Patterns 1291 1847 1279 list sizes material yardage and prices 15 cents each.
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Milady
Joneses
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Ill
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Purpose of Education NE on mental moral betterment and duty
The piece argues education serves mainly personal mental and moral betterment rather than qualification for leadership. It notes few leading positions exist and do not guarantee happiness, while many subordinate roles suit those who cheerfully perform ordinary duties. A nation of citizens doing their best will not decay.
Household QUESTIONS Brightening Piano Keys and More
WNU Service offers simple home tips. Brighten faded piano keys with a soft cloth dampened with alcohol. Tint milk with vegetable coloring to please picky children. Store tea and coffee in stone jars to preserve flavor. Clean rubber rollers with kerosene. Use an old shoe polish dauber to black stove surfaces. Buttered syrup prevents boilovers in pots. Cabbage simmered in milk with butter and flour creates a creamy dish.
Real Friendship Flows From the Heart Not Frozen by Adversity
A quotation attributed to J. Fenimore Cooper on friendship’s enduring nature. It compares friendship to spring water that resists freezing in winter, emphasizing warmth, resilience, and the constancy of true bonds.
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J. Fenimore Cooper
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