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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
7
A Western Newspaper Union feature highlights the rise of wash fabrics as stylish, practical dress options for all occasions. It spotlights frocks in cotton voiles, rayons, pique, organdie, ginghams, and laces, noting non shrinkable, non crushable qualities that suit patterns to size.
High fashion notes show dresses and coats pulling fullness to the rear or side through draping and panels. Elbow sleeves appear across coats, jackets remain waist fitted and single breasted. Skirt and jacket ensembles stay in vogue for sport and daywear, with tunic lengths and peplums highlighted.
Lace dominates the season with new street and tailored dresses in sheer and solid options. The fall of lace appears in simple one and two piece day dresses, sometimes full lace and other times mixed with fabric.
The fashion world splits into trends with popular trimming for sports and casual wear, lace reserved for dressier moments, and organdie favored for the clock around style, signaling a clear split in seasonal taste and emphasis.
Fashion notes indicate both wide skirted and straight line evening gowns are in vogue for formal wear this season. Designers emphasize versatility and balance between volume and streamlined silhouettes for events.
A fragment from a 19th century tale describes Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. The prisoner awakens in darkness in unfamiliar robes and maps his cell, fearing entombment while seeking a way to escape the perilous pit.
The life of Edgar Allan Poe is portrayed as more turbulent than any tale he wrote. Biographers note his sharp criticism, mastery of short stories and poetry, and his enduring artistic ache. His years at Virginia and West Point, plus disinheritance, shaped a restless youth and a complex legacy. Poe lived 1809 to 1849, achieving fame in Europe and America.
A bound prisoner in a stone pit endures slow death as a swinging steel blade and closing walls threaten to crush him. Rats crawling to a food scrap weaken his bonds, allowing a desperate leap to freedom as walls crumble and redouble in heat. The captors are defeated by a French victory.
Instructions detail six strand embroidery to create borders with royal blue and turkey red, yellow and orange accents, and center fish bone. It notes crafts in Mrs Spears Book No 2 with ninety stitches, fabric repairs, table settings, gifts, and more. Price 25 cents postpaid. address Mrs Spears, 210 S Desplaines St, Chicago Illinois.
Questions cover Charter Oak, the world’s oldest democracy, Florida’s acquisition, radium production, a prophesying philosopher about income tax, Locofocos party existence, and the meaning of Tia Juana.
Includes notes on a Hartford tree hiding the Colonial charter, Switzerland as an ancient democracy, a 1819 purchase from Spain, a 750 gram estimate, a Plato quote on income tax, Locofocos 1824 to 1835, and Tia Juana meaning Aunt Jane.
A terse courtroom style exchange features a doctor affirming a patient’s heart and a judge pressing for the precise age. The dialogue underscores a stubborn insistence on exact age as time advances. The fragment suggests themes of aging, mortality, and the tension between medical certainty and legal scrutiny.
A domestic exchange shows a wife requesting a quicker change of climate while her husband argues she should not wait beyond tomorrow. The light dialogue hints at a casual, humorous marital dynamic in a domestic setting.
A short exchange reveals a marriage proposal rejected over fashion. She dismisses the match, citing that his hair color would clash with her new hat, and suggests revisiting the idea later after she changes it.
A dialogue from a home fearing cobwebs clues to spiders in the house. The interchange presents Mary asking about the webs and the reply suggests the presence of spiders, hinting at a minor domestic worry.
An incident titled The Death of Nelson draws focus at a fair where attendees note the event with mixed reactions. A pianist remarks that the outcome surprised few, reflecting on the broader mood of the crowd.
Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book offers two new designs NEITHER of these new patterns will be hard to make each includes a sew chart and promises summer joy for wearers Pretty Afternoon Dress suits tea clubs and lunches with shirred shoulders built up waist and graceful lines in georgette chiffon voile or hand kerchief linen Tot's Play Suit uses sturdy cotton and bright butterfly motifs in a square neckline and side tie sizes 2 8 years patterns 1517 and 1910 include yardage details and materials order 15 cents.
A compact reflection on selfhood, noting we are defined by imitation yet stronger when we choose excellent models. The quote attributes wisdom to Lord Chesterfield and urges careful study of exemplary behavior to become more than mere copies.
A terse quotation attributed to Arthur Coningsby extols goodness as easier and lovelier than wickedness and imagines walls of a prison house vanishing like curtains when drawn aside as a metaphor for virtue’s liberating power.
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