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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
6
A midsummer fashion feature contrasts pastels with prints, highlighting pastel day dresses in crepe and linen, linen durability, and chic tailoring. It notes white linens, colorful belts, jackets with outfits, linen redingotes, silk prints with checks and plaids, and evening gowns in Scotch plaid with lace.
New play suits fuse girlhood charm with sport utility. A floral striped cotton two piece links a puff sleeved one piece with detachable skirt. another uses ticking fabric with a square neck puff sleeve dress paired with shorts. Tennis outfits trend toward white pique rayon or linen with short skirts above the knee.
Designers praise the white jersey for practicality, smart appearance, and draping. They urge trying a jersey to see its shaping effect, noting how white rayon jerseys look after rubbing, described as white as snow, desired in white costumes.
Diamond and pearl earrings gain prominence as essential accents for all outfits, highlighting their growing role in style trends and accessorizing choices across wardrobes.
A new hobby centers on collecting history themed handkerchiefs. Four designs by Burmel feature Mark Twain's Mississippi, Covered Wagon, Mount Vernon, and Landing of the Pilgrims with vivid tableaux and floral borders. The Pilgrims design is shown by a charming collector.
Frank Barry of Albion Michigan faced a night of fear as a cellar intruder turned out to be his 500 pound boar hog. His wife’s nerves and his own tale of a blood cold chase end with a panic leap and a hog’s nosedive into his legs. Released by Western Newspaper Union.
A vintage household guide lists cooling beverages for hot days. It details iced tea preparation, lemonades, spiced syrups, frosted grape juice ade, iced coffee, mocha freeze, and Bowling Green Punch, with ingredients and serving tips.
Streamlining is used to boost strength while reducing weight in cars and large bridges like the Brooklyn and San Francisco Bay spans. Smooth exterior lines improve rigidity with minimal air-resistance impact, keeping vehicles efficient at all speeds.
A vintage classified style advert promises a cheap cookbook titled Better Baking. It lists recipes for old fashioned and modern quick cakes unusual cookies breads and favorite pies with baking hints. Send 10 cents to Eleanor Howe at 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois to obtain a copy.
Waste space upstairs can be made into a bright modern laundry with paint and low priced curtains. The trend in floor plans shows off the kitchen laundry growing, with washers that self empty and ironing done upstairs to ease storage and reduce mess.
An old guide notes that rug cleaning no longer requires hanging and beating with tools. Electricity and the vacuum cleaner reduce labor and dust, cutting dusting time for millions of homes.
The article advises deciding in advance which foods go in or out to keep the temperature stable. It notes that leaving the door open raises heat and suggests cooling cooked foods before storage to prevent heat and moisture from raising the temperature inside the chest.
A lighting inspired color plan brightens a dim bedroom with walls in daffodil yellow a paler yellow ceiling and white woodwork accented by thin orange lines to lift mood and space.
A practical home note advises using a medium sized cork dipped in scouring powder to polish paring knives and other cutlery, aiming to protect dishcloths from wear and grime during cleaning and upkeep.
The account highlights John Mix Stanley, Frederick Funston, and Absalom Grimes. It chronicles Stanley’s early Indian portraits, participation in Kearny’s march, near misses with the Whitman massacre, a shipwreck, and a late-life loss of paintings. Funston’s rise from Kansas student to brigadier general who helped capture Aguinaldo. and Grimes’s hazardous Confederate service, including the Vicksburg siege and a Lincoln pardon before his death.
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