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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1917
Page
3
Rose Stanton Aldrich seeks purpose beyond idle luxury in Chicago marriage. She joins a musical comedy chorus under an assumed name, assists with costumes, and impresses producer and director while navigating fashion pressures and a tense meeting with John Galbraith.
Rose and John Galbraith discuss cutting costs for gowns by designing and supervising costumes, with Rose taking charge of design and fabric choices. He arranges a budget and a Globe wardrobe mistress to handle sewing, while Rose commits to the project and prepares a midnight design session after rehearsal.
A fresh crisis arrives in Rose life bringing heavier duties and anxiety. The upcoming installment promises key developments shaping the continuing drama.
The piece cites W H Hudson’s Idle Days in Patagonia noting luminous eyes of cats and owls as especially striking. He contrasts human eyes with nature’s glow and remarks on Brazilian beauty among Black women, hypothetically enhanced by golden hides of tropical birds.
Miss Mabel Keyes Babcock, four years head of horticulture and landscape architecture at Wellesley College, appointed to design the formal garden for MIT Boston president’s residence. She is a renowned landscape gardener with notable work at Wellesley Chicago and greater Boston estates.
Diplomat reportedly left Stockholm for Petrograd to present a German backed armistice and peace terms. Bolshevik leaders Lenine and Trotsky announce a new all Russian government with a peace offer to all belligerents and self determination for nations.
Secretary Dundes announced the United States declined British decorations for two American destroyers during World War I. Officers and men were nominated for the Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Service Cross, and Distinguished Service Medal, but the awards were withheld for military reasons. The ships sank two U boats with depth charges while protecting merchant vessels in the war zone.
Secretary Baker stated that the arrival of American forces in France has met expectations for strengthening Pershing's army. He emphasized no official count will be released during the war and warned against expecting exact troop numbers at any time.
Timothy Carroll, paymaster for T. M. Nagle Boiler and Engine, was held up by two men in Erie on November 26 and robbed of $28,000 he had drawn from the bank to pay workers.
Washington November 28. Food Administrator Hoover ordered all state food officials to identify manufacturers and dealers who held federal licenses but did not obtain them by November 1 and report those cases to the federal authorities.
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