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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1941
Page
5
A fashion feature advises college girls on building a versatile fall and winter wardrobe on a budget. It recommends interchangeable pieces, a color scheme, and key items like a gray tweed jacket, plaid coat, wool dresses, and a black date dress. It highlights three chic date dresses and practical, lightweight daytime frocks with emphasis on wardrobe rhythm and well-being.
The feature highlights large, pretentious looking costume jewelry with massive bracelets and necklaces. It notes clusters of colored stones and rhinestones, autumn tones of topaz and amber, and new multi piece clips for lapels paired with matching earrings bracelets and rings.
The fashion note highlights a chic all black look featuring jet accented crepe or jersey dresses, jet passementerie at throat and sleeves, a tiny jet hat, black gloves and sheer silk hose. Accessories include jet embellished bags or matching suede shoes.
Designers add black or white lace edgings to peplums tiers and flounces with overskirt effects. Lace yokes appear as prominent details and removable sheer lace guimpes are sold at neckwear counters.
A campus original blouse features long full sleeves a round high neck fly front and double button over pockets. It emphasizes refined simplicity with pastel colors designed to pair with dark fall outfits and convey a stylish message.
Little Folks will wear bright colored long stockings again to ward off winter chill. The stockings arrive in vivid colors appealing to little girls who seek pretty and practical apparel.
The article details how camps Toombs Wheel er and Haan memorialize notable generals Rob ert Toombs David Sloan Stanley Joseph T Wheeler and William George Haan. It traces Toombs from secessionist senator to Confederate secretary of state and general, Stanley as a famed Indian fighter and Civil War veteran, Wheeler as a key Confederate cavalry leader and later congressman, and Haan as a Cuban Philippine campaign veteran honored at Camp Haan in California.
The article traces Taps from a military retirement signal to the bugle version known as The Last Post. It notes Daniel Butterworth, a Union general, composed the present melody. Oliver W. Norton, a brigadier bugler, first sounded it at Harrison’s Landing, Virginia, in July 1862.
The fragmentary text mentions Wright A. Anease in a local notice context. No clear event, date, or organizational details are readable to confirm actions or outcomes.
A Kansas City man buys a small farm within an hour of the city for health shelter warmth and food for his family. He contrasts city life with rural self sufficiency noting the seller’s cityward dreams and predicting urban failure versus farm stability over five years.
A column of short sketches surveys notable figures and ideas. Jerry Reed, a King Ranch cowboy turned World War major, laments the ranch’s loss of romance as a Texas highway slices through its land. Slim Williams recalls Alaska adventures and a highway theory, while Dr. Bill McGovern is praised for cosmopolitan teachings and secret journeys.
Extension horticulturist advises sweet potato harvest as vines die from frost. Dig promptly with a vine cutter to avoid bruising and separate damaged yams for stock. Grade as dug, cure and store in a clean dry room with controlled temperature and moisture for best shelf life.
Florence C Weed explains how castor bean cultivation is being revived to substitute for Chinese tung oil in paints and enamels. Efforts include test plots in 33 states, new seeds from Java Brazil and India, and harvestable crops with reduced hand labor. Industrial uses range from food can linings to textiles, soap, inks, and tire cement.
Farm Notes report dairy herd growth of nearly three percent from 1940 to 1941 and a rising lamb crop. It notes hen feed needs, a compact homogenizing dairy machine, and a 1941 hay and corn outlook with large crops and higher yields than recent years.
A Spurgeon quotation warns that trouble will arrive in its own time and at its destined place, testing endurance. It emphasizes facing hardship with faith and divine aid rather than delaying or meeting it halfway. The reflection underscores perseverance through inevitable trials.
Notable quote reflecting on the power of books to preserve voices from past ages and connect readers with historical and spiritual life across time. The author emphasizes gratitude for literature as a bridge to distant generations.
A Marshall Field quotation emphasizes the aim of self development to better serve humanity through personal growth and useful powers. It frames individual improvement as the basis for public good and collective benefit.
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