Navy orders Don Foster to Norfolk for deck officer duty
Des Moines notes record Don Foster, aged 42, received a Navy order to report to Norfolk Virginia by Sept 28 for training as a deck officer and a lieutenant commission. Health and wartime cautions from Lt. Col. Shane urged care of health and nerves, prefacing a broader war institute notice for Nov 5 6 7 in Des Moines with Bishop Edwin F. Lee as speaker.
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Nion
Iowa
Don Foster
Des Moines
United States Navy
Norfolk
Robert S. Shane
Selective Service
Edwin F. Lee
Methodist Church
Philippines
Malaysia
Eldorado
Fayelle County
Singapore
Batavia
Java
San Francisco
Orient
Cherokee County
Board of Apportionment
Mrs Emil Pearson Receives False Prisoner Letter from Marine Son
Mrs. Emil Pearson of 205 Cayuga Street Storm Lake reports a letter claiming to be from her son George L. McShane of the marines. The handwriting and wording appear forged and likely dictated while the son is reportedly a prisoner of the Japanese since December 8.
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Emil Pearson
Cayuga St
Storm Lake
George L. McShane
Marines
George
P. F.C
Shanghai
Central
China
Mt Olive News Highlights Local Social Sailings
Mt Olive residents recount Sunday calls and visits across Cherokee and Alta. Families like the Andersons, Nelsons, Gustafsons, Johnsons, and Torreys appear at homes in Cherokee and Storm Lake. Heavily features enlistment notices for Marvin and Melvin Johnson and maritime service plans in Sioux City and Salt Lake City.
Sioux City Market Prices Rally Amid Mixed Livestock Movements
Cattle futures rose to highs and cash prices edged up for some lines while others slipped. Sioux City buyers showed strength in gains for select cattle, with fat lambs easing and feeder lambs holding firm. Cherokee county shippers reported varied steers and heifers prices as local hospital and personal news filled the page.
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Sioux City
Cherokee County
Ray Townsend
Dewey Deyloft
Ti Hogs
Frank Bryant
Ed Ducommon
Steers
Ralph Anderson
Chas. Kolin
Jim Montgomery
Conrad Engdahl
Lawrence Boothby
Jerry Buckley
L. H. Morrill
Claude Davis
Township AAA Committeemen Named by Township
The article lists elected officials for Spring Afton Pilcher Silver and Diamond townships with chairs vice chairs and delegates. Key names include T John Dawson Geo E Zwick Ralph Peterson Lars J Mork LeRoy Hench Frank W Huseman and others.
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Spring Township
T. John Dawson
Victor Nelson
Harold C. Drake
Will J. Kracht
Laurence C. Davis
Afton Township
Geo. E. Zwick
Herbert L. Kolpin
Robert S. Gates
Dale D. Smith
Leon B. Sanborn
Geo. M.zwick
Delgate
Pilcher Township
Ralph Peterson
Eric A. Carlson
Mdmaund O. Radke
Pierre J. Bengtson
Geo. L. Harden
John V. Galvin
Silver Township
Lars J
Frank W. Huseman
LeRoy Hench
Afton Vicinity Notes From Mrs Earlwick
Teachers from area schools attended a Sioux City convention last Friday. Miss Dorothy Thevenin of Buffalo N Y was an overnight guest of Violet Hansbruch. Miss Gladys Whiting spent vacation with her sister Bonnie in Cherokee. Many attended the funeral of Vivian Dyslin formerly of Afton near Larrabee in Cherokee.
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California
Glenn Pyetin
Glenn Dyslin
Wilbur Snapp
Great Lakes
Marg Aight
Spring Township
Gilbert Clow
Clow
Ruby Stiencke
Omaha
Herbert Troxel
Archer
Iowa
Aaron Holderness
Sioux Valley Hospital
Archie Sexton
Harold Pingel
Buena Vista County
McKinley Menefee
Marlene
Opal Cave
Rochester
Minn
Rex Whitney
Aurelia
Will
Earl Zwick
Raymond
Frank Hill
Peterson
Sioux City
Dorothy Thevenin
Buffalo
N. Y
Violet Hansbruch
Gladys Whiting
Bonnie
Cherokee
Vivian Dyslin
Afton
Decessed
Larrabee
Aften
Bats
Ivica Chlson Again Appears In Play At Cornell College
Ilona Ellen Chlson, a Cornell College junior from Mount Vernon, appears in When Johnny Comes Marching, an original musical revue by Albert Johnson. The show premiered in the Cornell Little Theater last summer and had a single performance last Saturday.
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Ivica Chlson
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Ilona
Ellen Chlson
Cornell
Johnny
Albert Johnson
Cornell Little Theater
Gather Up All Iron and Steel Scrap Now
A wartime call urges Americans to collect scrap iron and steel by October 17 to fuel mills through winter. Citizens must salvage scrap from kitchens, attics, basements, sheds, and old machinery to build a stockpile for Uncle Sam and hinder Hitler.
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America
Hitler
Uncle Sam
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Vere Corringto
Roy Glidewell
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Wee
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