Iowa War News and Education Struggles Highlight Postwar Period
The Iowa war report notes Miles Home and editor Frank Miles will resume duties as editor of the Iowa Legionnaire by September 1. It cites a teacher exodus over 7,000 leaving for better pay or military service, predicting 6,500 smaller schools may not reopen. Liquor rationing shifts to two-fifths per month per permit holder, with stores closed briefly at war’s end and future adjustments possible.
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Miles
Frank Miles
Iowa Daily Press Association
Iowa Legionnaire
Hitler
Selective Service
Iowa
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Dick R. Lane
Nielsen couple travel to Denver for Edwards return
Mr and Mrs Oswald Nielsen departed Saturday for Denver to bring home their son Edward who has been a Spears Clinic patient for the past three months. Mr and Mrs Edmund Lichtenberg attended a relative funeral at Estherville Monday. Miss Doris Millard visited her grandmother Mrs Fred Hustedt and Miss Mosel Lietz stayed with grandmother Mrs Martha Lietz in Alta from Tuesday evening to Thursday.
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Oswald Nielsen
Denver
Colo
Edward
Spears Clinic
Edmund Lichtenberg
Estherville
Doris Millard
Fred Hustedt
Mosel Lietz
Martha Lietz
Alta
King-Size Can Opener Aids Seabees In Battle Drainage
Lt. (j. g.) David Schwitters of Steamboat Rock in the civil engineering corps of the U S N E devised a king-size can opener to speed emergency culvert construction. Seabees used welded empty oil and gasoline drums with drum-heads removed to form drainage culverts in battle zones, replacing the slow hammer and chisel method.
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J. G
David Schwitters
Steamboat Rock
Civil Engineering Corps
Seabees
Lt. Schwitters
Old-Time Church Socials Return In Iowa Communities
Several Iowa communities revive pre war church ice cream social and supper events with baking powder biscuits and real butter as rationing ends. The piece notes possible ceilings on prices and questions limits on dairy and baked goods.
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Iowa
Mt Olive Social Roundup Skims Local Visits and Gatherings
Local residents and visitors share time across farms, lakes, and churches. Miss Dotha Souther of Los Angeles visits Earl Bruce and joins gatherings with Jess Williams and others in Alta and Aurelia as well as attending a bridal shower at Bethlehem Lutheran for Dorothy Mortensen.
Diamond Center Notes and Family Gatherings
Mrs O C Hickey column reports weekend guests including Mrs Stella Riener of Tampa Florida and daughters of Sioux City and many local visits. Mrs Lena Leopold funeral held at Wharton in America and Diamond friends extend sympathy. Marlyce Vogel Aurelia visited Patty Hickey. Clarence Hickey from Sioux City stayed overnight. Otto called in Orbville Hickey home.
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Ivan Winter
Sioux City
Stella Riener
Tampa
Florida
W. F
Want Ad Declares Sell Swap Rent and Buy Options
A compact want ad column promotes buying selling and renting through a streamlined swap and sale marketplace. It invites readers to list items for sale exchange and rental with quick postings and local reach.
Sioux City Market Reports Mixed Cattle and Hogs Prices
Cattle overall weaker with slaughter steers yearlings and heifers steady to down. three year feeder steers at 14.40, yearling stock steers to 14.15, yearling stock heifers to 18.25. Hogs steady at ceiling 14.45 and 13.70. Lambs steady 11.50 to 13.75. ewes 4.50 to 6.50. Cherokee shippers including Fassler Halstrom Richie & Alesch Sexton Healy listed with mixed lots and weights.
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Sioux City
Cherokee County
Herman Fassler
Afton Vicinity News Highlights From Mrs Zwick and Community
Mrs Earl Zwick and Mrs Merlyn Honsbruch arrived from California to visit in the Will Honsbruch home and with relatives. Cpl Garand Menefee returned home after nearly three years overseas, flying Guam to the Philippines then California. Various locals attended picnics and visits. schools began Monday August 27. health and travel notes include Carl Hanson’s Minnesota trip and a hospital stay for Mrs Fred Tigges.
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Merlyn Honsbruch
California
Will Honsbruch
Cpl
Garand Menefee
Guam
Philippines
Lyle Wilson
Washington
Iowa
George Zwick
Cherokee
Earl Zwick’s
Adrian Honsbruch
Alfred Stief
Texas
Jefferson Barracks
Afton
Aurelia
Carl Hanson
Minnesota
Canada
Hanson
Laurine Zwick
Betty Brewster
Fred Tigges
Sioux Valley Hospital
LaMonte Lauridsen
Storm Lake
Swen Axelson
Plan Your Fields To Fit the Contour
Harvey Lindberg, a local Soil Conservationist, urges contour planning for fields to fit slopes. He recommends laying contour lines this fall when possible to aid grass strips, spring seedings, and field shapes. Fall plowing on contour may protect soil and water. contact the Soil Conservation Service in Cherokee or County Extension Director A L Griffith for help.
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Harvey Lindberg
Lindberg
Soil Conservation Service Office
Cherokee
A. L. Griffith
Annual Certificate for Publicaton of Pennsylvania Millers Mutual Fire
Iowa Insurance Department certifies Pennsylvania Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Wilkes-Barre to transact fire and allied lines business in Iowa until April 1 1946. The December 31 1944 statement shows admitted assets 4 382 871.25 liabilities 1 612 730.39 guaranty fund 250 000.00 surplus over liabilities 2 520 140.86 surplus as regards policyholders 2 770 140.86. Also lists Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Philadelphia with 1944 figures.
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Insurance Department of
Iowa
Code of Iowa
Ichas
R. Fischer
Fire and Allied Lines Insurance
Des Moines
Insurance Department of Iowa
CHAS
Asbces Oo Ecesesstesssen
Mutual Company
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Seechey Interiantia
State Capitol
Jessie M. Parker
A. B. Lindsay
W. A. Liebsch
Don R. Hankens
Larson's
State Bank
Winfred Moulton
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association of
Fred Radke
H. H. Lockin
C. H. Kaskey
Hanover
Irene Zwemke
Aurelia Phone
Reggy
Cherokee Livestock Auction Co
Geo. A. Pierce
MT. Olive
Helen Hahn
Dotha Souther
Los Angeles
Calif
Earl Bruce
Martyn Erickson
Charles Galvin
Wendell Nordstrom
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Maggie Fritz
Edgar Johnson
Ellen Smith
Eng. Anderson
Lake Okoboji
Margaret Juber
Mabel Neville
Harry Smith
Larrabee
Cliff Bruce
Robert
Paul Lindgren
Cleghorn
L. C. Bengtson
Claus Sellden
Barbara Jean Sellden
Jess Pennington
Howard Shadland
Louis Stellish
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Earl Crippen
Ena Peterson
Anna Carrington
Alfred Simonson
Lawrence Mongan
Betty Peterson
Axel Johnson
Quimby
Oscar Gustafson
Coon Rapids
Carl Johnson
Enoch Nelson
Grandma Gustafson
Myrna Thomas
Forrest Lenz
Storm
Bethelehem Lutheran Church
Stewart
Dorothy Mortensen
Lloyd Ohlson
Charlene
Nina
Clara Ohlson
Robert Bengtson
Edna Nordstrom
August Peterson
Gunnar Hanson
Donald Johnson
Paul Peterson
Oscar Smith
John Larson
Will Hahn
Diamond Center
Mrs. O. C. Hickey
Eddie Halstrom
Steers
Richie & Alesch
E. Sexton
V. Healy
Earl Zwick
Prarves Gs Poe
A Butvey
Aurelia Iron Works
ROY Collier & Sons
Acetylene
Pennsylvania Millers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Wilkes-Barre
State of
Pennsylvania
Chas. R. Fischer
Pennsylvania Lumbermen’s Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Philadelphia
the Sentinel
Michigan
Mark
J. L. Knight
Weatherford
124Th Cavalry Reg
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Knight
U.S. Treasury Department
W. A. Allen
Ed Lehnhardt
Garner
Aurelia Sentinel
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