New Elegance in Current Mode Calls for Quality Kind Silks
Revival of heirloom silks for fall winter 1939 40 emphasizes fabric elegance in dresses with simple lines and rich drapes. Silks highlighted include bengalines faille ottoman moires and silk jerseys with sculptural draping and shirring. Practical black jersey daywear contrasts with white silk jersey evening pieces and green crepe luncheon dresses showcasing self fabric details and corseted silhouettes. Glorified by jeweled buttons from past fashion, black bengaline and faille jackets and tailored silk suits top the style set.
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Union
Dollar Makers Showmanship Is Essential To Success
A look at how showmanship elevates routine business tasks. Cases include a Kentucky fruit packer sending pigeons with orders to a Buffalo broker, a Chicago billboard kennel ad combining live dogs with canned food, and a firm that personalizes order acknowledgments by highlighting payroll and supplier reach. These tactics boost visibility and trust.
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Kentucky
Buffalo
Chicago
Air travel fashion takes shape with ship ahoy style
London designer Victor Stiebel leads airship wardrobe trends with a daytime clipper suit. The rabbit hair crepe fabric, napticalated wool and slim straight line feature rows of self-colored stitching. A mist green hat completes the ensemble for practical elegance.
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Victor Stiebel
London
Rabbit
Velvet Turbans Add Colorful Flair This Winter
Milliners craft adorable velvet turbans in bright colors to pair with fur coats and evening gowns. Designs include corded loops and snoods, with old gold teal blue and fireman red among the favored shades. The low jauntily tilted pouf and rose-like back coverage complete these festive accessories.
Suits In New Modes Feature Fur Trimmed Coats
Fashion notes describe the latest mode where suits emphasize both dress and jacket components. Short peplum and long fitted jackets appear, with many furred ensembles paired with fur muffs hats and pelts. Coats in cloth and fur are fitted and flared, heavily trimmed with Persian lamb beaver seal leopard fox marten and mink.
Carnegie and Morgan illustrate selling through desire
The text argues that great salesmanship hinges on arousing strong desire before presenting details. Carnegie avoided tedious numbers with J Pierpont Morgan, using Schwab to evoke a vision of a steel empire. Similar method shows in everyday sales, from washing machines to game rooms, spanning many trades.
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Carnegie
J. Pierpont Morgan
Morgan
Charles M. Schwab
Steel Corporation
Ball Syndicate
WNU
Thanksgiving Menu Plans That Save Time and Let Family In
A guidance piece urges making Thanksgiving about enjoying family, not just the feast. Tips include preparing and stuffing the turkey a day ahead, refrigerating it, and assembling sides and desserts Wednesday. Recipes cover roast turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, sweet potatoes with orange and brown sugar, creamed onions with cream cheese, cabbage pineapple gelatin salad, and pumpkin pie with spices. It also promotes Eleanor Howe’s Household Hints booklet for further time saving ideas.
Wildlife study warns industry harms hunt and fish demand
Industry and agriculture harm wildlife that nature did not plan to supply for 6 million licensed hunters and about 7 million licensed fishermen. Professor Ralph T. King of the Roosevelt Wildlife Experiment Station cites U S Bureau of Biological Survey figures showing over 13 million people hunt or fish annually, with numbers rising, per the Hartford Courant.
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Ralph T. King
Roosevelt Wildlife Experiment Station
New York State College of Forestry
King
United States Bureau of Biological Survey
Hartford Courant
Homemade Bread and Rolls Recipes Ahead in Column
All the world loves homemade bread and old fashioned rolls like hot butterscotch and parker house. The column next week will feature simplified recipes you can try at home. Look for them and enjoy the familiar, homey flavors.
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Parker House
How to Sew 4y Ruth Wyeth Sia Od
The illustration shows a makeover of a bride’s mirror and piano stool using two grocery boxes as the base, a pine shelf, a back frame, a curtain rod, and hinged arms. White paint, rose and blue green flowered chintz, and a tailored dressing table skirt complete the renovation. Readers are urged to order Sewing Books No 4 and quilt block patterns offered by Mrs Spears with affordable mail order details.
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Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Ask Me Another General Quiz Round
Seven quick trivia prompts cover flags brains instruments tides methods and terms. Questions ask when a new state adds a star to the flag which animal has the largest brain relative to body size differences between cornet trumpet and bugle water flow over Niagara Falls weekly high tide count and heuristic method.
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Niagara Falls
Answers on July Fourth and music and science quiz
The set includes seven red and six white objects, a bugle lacks valves while the cornet and trumpet differ in winding and length, Niagara Falls flow is 67 000 tons per minute, perpetual means without cessation, heuristic derives from Greek heuretikos meaning ingenious, and the Answers cover repeated insights and purposes for self-discovery.
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Niagara Falls
Fat golfer’s last chance on the links
The fat man brings six clubs and a caddie to the tee. A powerful swing shatters every club as the ball stays on the tee. With the bag empty, the caddie suggests using the bag as a club to continue the attempt.
Golden Friendship Poem Fragment
A short verse celebrating friendship as a chain of gold shaped by virtue and care. Each link embodies smiles tears and cheer binding souls across distance, with steadfastness through ages and burdens.
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George T. Eager
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Eleanor Howe
North
Michigan Avenue
Illinois
Western Newspaper Union
Ruth Wyeth
LUDEN
Wilbur Shaw
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