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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1945
Page
2
The funeral services for Lloyd Reynolds were held Sunday in Anita after a truck accident near peat Town City. The body was taken to the Anocs Methods for burial at Evergreen Cemetery.
The article outlines changes to supplementary gas allocations for motorists, detailing new mileage limits such as 325 miles monthly and removals of certain air gauge stickers. It notes the end of B, C, and T coupons after June 20 and lets minor remaining coupons be exchanged at ration boards. Your want ad in this paper is read by 25,000 persons.
Corporal Gene Mallette writes from Berchtesgaden describing a barracks like living space with beds and cots, a nearby kitchen, and electric lights. He details a trip to the mountains, the destroyed Hitler residence, the famed window, bomb damage, and loot found in the hotel ruins including silverware and wine bottles.
The narrator recalls a weather event with rain and hail at a spot near Berchtesgaden near the German Austrian border. They describe violent weather changes, a quick storm pass, and a return trip down the mountain. They mention passing between Germany and Austria and visiting Augsburg Muenchen Salzburg and Wasserburg.
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Perry and Ed Wagner attended the Garst-Thomas hybrid corn sales banquet and demonstration at Coon Rapids. Mrs. J. A. Griffith of Council Bluffs is visiting Mrs. B. M. Rogers for several days. Misses Wilma Jensen and Virginia Penton enrolled in the State Teachers extension summer school at Red Oak. Jensen elected to teach in Massena’s Ath 5th and 6th grades and Penton to a rural school.
The New England Shipbuilding Corp plant in Sout Portland celebrates the christening of two Liberty ships, the Harold H. Brown and Stanley R. Fisner, honoring fallen merchant seamen. The occasion marks the final stages of the 14 foot Liberty ship program, bringing total ships completed to 2,661 by the U.S. Maritime Commission.
Those who desire extra copies should notify this office in advance to prevent exhaustion of supply.
Fifty seven head of Aberdeen Angus plus ten imported heifers, seven bulls, and forty high grade Angus stock will be sold at Wayland A. Hopley sale Monday. Auctioneers Johnson and Halsey. Lunch by Atlantic First Presbyterian women.
Mr and Mrs Dick Christoffersen learn from a friend that their son Sgt Norman Christoffersen was wounded in action on Mindanao on May 14. No word has yet arrived from the War Department.
Elk Horn notes a local teacher, Anna Lange, travels to Cedar Falls for summer school. Mrs. Tommy Petersen and Lor na Kay of Extra visit Nels Larsen home and relatives for several days.
Mr and Mrs Harry Huff and their son Darwin and family visited in Dayton Ohio during a recent trip and returned.
The readable lines reference Mrs. H. D. Byers and names Mrs. A. J. Morse and Wanita Jones, with David accompanying them home, but no coherent event or context is provided to form a full factual item.
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