As the paper is flipping pages, pausing it at a page that has an upper left headline of "Take Politics Out of Belief" (several pages before the stopping point of the "White Mice Purchased" sub-head), there's an ad for Beckman's Mink Coats in the lower left. The prices range from $850 to $1400. In 2023, that would be equivalent to $18,500 to $30,500.
At the end, the "dire" front-page (newspaper) headlines are: Fighting Forces Renew Attack (Daily Eagle), Planes Rain Death! (Daily Herald), Refugees Leave Stricken Area (The Journal), Villages Wiped Out! (The Daily Times), Famine Threatens Bombed City (Democrat Chronicle), and Civil War Begins! (Evening Dispatch).
When the newspaper flips to the back stories, the ending paragraph of the story above the interior headline always reads the same: "This affair will be a dessert-dance and is planned to be one of the outstanding social affairs of the holiday season."