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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1936
Page
4
A fashion piece extols navy as the season’s key color from deep to light shades. It advises pairing navy with contrasting blouses and gloves, using navy as an accent, and notes blues range from violet to royal shades, suited to different looks and eye colors.
The article argues the size of the Navy hinges on future foreign policy. It notes Admiral Standley’s plan for two battleships and about ten light cruisers, costing around 40 million dollars per battleship, and calls for national debate on overseas trade, open door in China, and responses to European war risks before approving new warships. It urges defining policy to avoid unnecessary fleets.
Harold Pernula’s car plunged from an open bridge span into the river at South Bend Washington, hitting a raft of logs. The door and fender stayed on the logs, while the chassis disappeared downriver. Auto thieves remember Chelsea
A fragmented OCR style puzzle clue list from 1982 appears. It includes numbered hints like 112 Musical, 18 Perfection standard, 16 Fetid, 21 Deer, and 63 Part in a society with scattered words and vertical hints such as 47 Egg-shaped and 1 Knite.
Fragmentary OCR yields a list of numbered clues and lettered hints. Entries include definitions for terms like bird habitat harbor and skin-to-fiber loom hints, with references to objects, animals, and roles such as monkey and silkworm, suggesting a crossword style puzzle.
The speaker praises the rising influence of child health week and better child care through the Dionne quintuplets. Public health agencies like the Red Cross and Ontario Welfare Department are cited for aiding health measures such as diphtheria protection, with hope public cooperation spreading to Canada and the United States.
The piece celebrates tailored suits with padded shoulders and slim waists, praising men's fabrics and fit. It notes successful examples in town, suggests custom or ready made options, and calls out mannish hats and fly fronts as fashionable steals. A Kappa Delta Phi rummage is announced for Saturday May 2.
Middletown Connecticut Wesleyan University has purchased the long time home of former Governor Frank B Weeks a prominent figure in early Middletown colonial history. The house will be opened as a museum.
Defiance district May festival of music features choir representatives from Van Wert Convoy and Defiance Methodist churches. Convoy choir performs Thou Will Keep Hit in Perfect Peace. Local program times 2 30 and 7 30 p m.
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