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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
6
The leading fashion figure Miss College Girl anchors a chic fall style lineup highlighted by bustle dresses reviving 1880s silhouettes, velvet jackets with plaid wool skirts, and military inspired accents. Designers from Chicago showcase velvet tones, striped wool suits, and bold plaids favored by going away to school fashion.
A smart costume suit blends plain wool with yellow and black diagonal tweed. The fitted jacket appears in yellow and gold tones, with a matching swagger coat and skirt. A saucer brim hat in black felt completes the coordinated ensemble seen in advance Paris collections.
The article discusses coat lengths and styles for different figures. It notes the widely seen just-below-the-waist length and a monotone wool jacket over a print dress as popular choices. It also suggests a slightly swallow-tail version may suit heavier figures better.
A money saver for the bride features a two skirt suit in sheer wool or crepe with a fitted jacket. The street-length skirt pairs with the jacket and a printed blouse for day wear, while a floor-length skirt with the same jacket and a chiffon blouse makes a chic evening ensemble for boating or hotel occasions.
Paris fashion designers move beyond boxy and fitted looks to reveal coats with intricate cuts and details in their latest collections, signaling a shift in outerwear style.
Mary Billard of La Salle Illinois is named Distinguished Adventurer for a 1913 escape from a runaway horse and a wagon with her mother unconscious in the seat. Mary climbed the dashboard halting the horse near a culvert, fetched a doctor, and saved both from disaster, though her mother bears the scars.
An old piece notes that animals and birds foretell weather. Swallows flying high and bats active suggest fair skies, while low flying birds peacocks screeching and crows circling indicate rain. Donkeys bray and cattle caper as signs of approaching change, and mor than cor morants near rivers signal a heavy gale.
A light hearted guide for Sunday night meals emphasizing informal self-serve style and leftovers served with novel accompaniments. It includes menus for clam chowder beef roast tuna casserole and a cocoa marshmallow cake with a jellied chili sauce, plus salad and dessert notes and a teaser for next week.
A reader submitted idea by Ruth Wyeth Spears describes using oilcloth shelf edging to dress kitchen windows. The piece notes straight curtains, easy laundering, matching window and shelf color, and coordinating banded towels and painted tin containers. The Sears book No 3 offers more helpful home ideas at 10 cents postpaid from Mrs Spears.
A vintage chowder recipe instructs to chop carrots onions potatoes and celery then simmer with chopped clams and liquor plus water. Add milk scalding, thicken with flour paste split between clam base and milk, then finish with butter parsley and paprika. Serve hot for six portions.
Send 10 cents to Easy Entertaining care of Eleanor Howe 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois for a copy. The advertisement touts Easy Entertaining as a guide for Sunday night suppers and other social gatherings such as tea parties, bridge parties, holiday parties, and bride's parties.
The Welcome Nugget, the largest gold nugget ever found, was discovered at Bakery Hill in Balla rat Australia on June 11 1858. Early placer mining in California and Australia yielded many large nuggets but the Welcome outweighed them all weighing 22170 16 dwt troy and sold for 10500 pounds.
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