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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1941
Page
5
Fashion notes reveal two standout fall trends feathers on hats and braiding on coats and dresses. Descriptions of outfits include a red gabardine reefer with black velvet collar and cuffs, a beige wool suit with greensoutache braid, and various feathered hats. Milliners promote bright plumage, pheasant quills, and stylish berets via illustrated ensembles.
College girls embrace white jersey dresses designed to wear under brown or black fur coats. The simple yet refined frocks feature drapes and tucks with quilting details, and some versions add bright embroidery or gold buttons and gilded trimmings for a touch of color and glamour.
A new process uses skimmed milk casein to make a fiber that blends with rabbit fur to form hat felting material. One pound of fiber comes from about 30 pounds of milk, creating a domestic alternative as war limits hatter’s rabbit fur imports. Bossy’s in the hat business markets classy hats from contented cows.
Embroidered details appear on sedate daytime suits and wool daytime dresses as well as on dressier garments. Long evening capes feature embroidered yokes while daytime jackets and blouses show ornate stitching.
Fashion notes show taffeta and wool costumes reviving the dirndl for fall and winter. A standout afternoon dress blends sheer wool bodice with brown taffeta facing at the V-neck, drop shoulder sleeves, and a natural waist accent. A veil-trimmed dark brown felt hat completes the soft feminine look.
Analysis shows by August 31 Uncle Sam spent about 190 million of seven billion, a pace not reaching the total in two years. Six months’ totals include 3.56 billion delivered or on order, with farms supplying 975 million and factories plus shipyards 2.58 billion. Food purchases reached 118 million, while farm output rose to lead the rapid spending pace.
A compact history notes how federal, state, and local taxes ballooned from 1913 to 1940. It cites federal outlays swelling to 13 billion and taxes on goods, services, and transportation climbing sharply, with state and municipal tax totals rising into the billions and promising long term repayments for future generations.
A collage of wartime entertainment notes links actors James Cagney Alan Hale George Tobias and Dennis Morgan to the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canada based films. Mentions soldiers Beauregard Gordon Upton and Emory camps named for military figures and the 1941 US tax burden.
Twentieth Century Fox faced a problem with Ginger Rogers. She will star in a remake of Chicago titled Roxy Hart and is slated to begin Self Made Cinderella Lubitsch's first Fox project.
The off stage dialogue of Myrna Loy and William Powell is recalled as Asta the dog sits atop Powell’s chest during a scene. Powell notes Asta enjoyed bacon after a wardrobe change while Loy jokes about ham.
The fourth picture on Burma road is Metro's China Caravan while Columbia, Fox, and Universal all announce Burma Road related projects. The industry clearly treats the Burma road as news with multiple studios rushing to announce their plans.
A U S radio company funds a daily press association news feed for stations across Latin America marking the first broad sponsored U S program for general distribution there. Alice Youngman takes dramatized spots on Are You a Missing Heir Helen's Home and the Lanny Ross shows.
Dinah Shore receives an honorary Doctor of Blues from Harvard freshmen, a novelty degree noted in radio circles. Monogram plans to revive Black Beauty for film, and Metro will remake Her Cardboard Lover from the 1932 title The Passionate Plumber. Sonja Henie signs a long term Fox contract and begins work January first. Olivia de Havilland sheds hoops for a role with Henry Fonda in The Tale Animal.
Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey keeper of the United States most famous bugle. He sounded taps at the Unknown Soldier burial in Arlington and at funerals for ex President Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Maj Gen Leonard Wood and other prominent Americans.
Quote reflects Byron on love's perils when delayed in older years. It frames late affection as risky and consuming, comparing it to disease and warning readers about aging passions.
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