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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1932
Page
3
Fashion notes highlight fur trimming across suits and dresses, with cuffs and bands often positioned above the wrist. Navy and beige fox contrast, white fabrics show fur borders, and lightweight wools, crepe, and lace-weave fabrics define the season. Evening pieces also feature fur touches as a chic constant.
New spring fabrics blend economy with Parisian design, offering cotton that looks like wool and silk resembling fur or tweed. Rodier’s heavy ribbed cottons imitate tweeds, nubby artificial silks recall fur, and mixed yarns create rich ratine textures.
Designers in Paris unveil elastic-banded push up sleeves on evening wraps and informal gowns to solve the problem of balloon sleeves while dining. Buyers and weavers praise the practical stylish solution to avoid stains, keeping a chic mysterious look.
Cherie Nichols notes a parade of sheer velvet jackets and wraps featured on fashion stages. Sleeves dominate with long, dramatic ruffles, especially on bellhop style waist jackets paired with black satin gowns. A wrap around jacket ties at the back and can serve as blouse or jacket.
Prof. Walter B Pitkin argues parents should guide children reading newspapers to build accurate news literacy. Begin after age twelve with dinner discussions and scrapbooks, stressing accuracy over speed, and use tests to boost recall.
The piece surveys a long held belief in a one horned wild animal from ancient times to today. It notes Ctesias' accounts of horned wild asses and the medieval use of unicorn horns for poison safety. No physical evidence supports existence, yet belief remains common across China, Japan, and Europe.
Gretna, famed as a marriage town, grew into a World War I munitions center costing at least 45 million dollars to build and equip. It produced 75 million cords of cordite, but now lies in ruin with crumbling roofless structures and dwindled population from 6,000 to few remain.
Import of large numbers of reptile skins from French Indo China into the United States is linked to a rising rat population in the territories where the reptiles were taken. Officials note 36 750 pieces of reptile skins were imported in the final quarter of last year.
The 1930 census reports 122 775 046 total population with 108 864 207 white persons and 11 891 143 Negroes. Mexicans Indians Japanese Chinese Filipinos Hindoo and Koreans follow in order and 780 counted as other races.
A terse observation notes that many bridges along key routes are structurally unsafe, risking travel reliability and economic progress. The warning emphasizes infrastructure weaknesses as a barrier to regional growth and development.
The Montreal Family Herald reports nine falachtda or cooking pits found around Kinsale including Ballintoher, Coolcorrin, Mellinfontstown, Ringrone, Ballinvredig, Tigsaxon, Kippagh, Scilly Glen and Clashmore Townshend. Sources cite burnt stone heaps used by ancient inhabitants for cooking as described by Townshend and Keating.
In the early import era Turkish carpets were viewed as too precious for floor use. Their small size led to their use as table covers rather than flooring.
The city of Islands describes Venice as seven miles around and split by the Grand canal into two parts. It notes Venice comprises 177 islands.
University of California mineralogist Dr. Arthur Starr Eakle estimates Hawaii is at least 1,000,000 years old from rock and soil composition. He notes the islands lack silver or gold but show copper, with iron rich soils and abundant manganese limiting commercial use.
A Berlin cabinet maker’s wife unknowingly stored her husband’s savings, 1500 marks, in old shoes given to a beggar. The beggar sold them to a second hand dealer, who saw the owner’s story in the paper, returned the shoes and money to the police, who then returned them to the rightful owner.
A compact satirical remark identifies a man described as of rugged character as someone who rarely agrees with others, signaling a humorous or critical take on stubborn personality.
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