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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1940
Page
7
This ad presents a transfer pattern 2762 for pieced flower basket designs with 20 flower motifs. It describes options for appliqué or embroidery flowers and notes uses on luncheon cloths curtains and other linens. The piece includes a quilting lesson and asks readers to send orders.
In a past era American merchants charged what the traffic would bear. Advertising helped consumers by moving markets toward established prices. The piece traces how price setting evolved from flexible charges to fixed sale prices.
NBC commentator Baukhage surveys white house to Pennsylvan ia avenue concerns over a citizen army in peace time and armed readiness. He cites conscription logic, defense vs offense, and US policy toward Japan Britain and France amid Axis pressures.
Debates within the U S cabinet rise over a complete embargo on Japan's war materials. Stimson Knox Ickes Morgenthau advocate total stoppage while Hull Welles and the state department push gradual action. Naval worries include Japanese moves to secure oil and potential European threats.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1222-B offers a jumper with blouse and matching bolero for school girls from grade eight through college. The design features a dart fitted waist, trim stitching, and a youthful tailored blouse in fabrics like corduroy velveteen and flannel for the jumper bolero and linen crepe or batiste for the blouse. Sizes 8 10 12 14 16 listed with yardage for 54 inch material and 39 inch material.
Washington correspondent Baukhage argues America arms rapidly for defense not offense. He notes Germany Italy and Japan show belligerent attitudes after their Triple Alliance. He questions whether war is coming and cites experts predicting a balanced budget by 1943.
A quotation from Canon Westcott on how great moments reveal character, noting silent growth through sleep and wakefulness until a crisis exposes what we become.
The text reflects on how fortunes differ yet share a moral balance, suggesting a compensation in good will and evil that equalizes them across life.
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