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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1943
Page
8
On a lighted troop train Marcus Macauley assures Tobey George that after the war they will return to Ithaca. Marcus hopes Tobey will marry his sister Bess, and describes an American identity tied to family, place, and a shared dream of home.
The piece blames political squabbling for delays in wartime needs and urges focusing on defeating Axis powers. It references local funding for a power plant upgrade and notes a tax sale planned by Col Ed L Swem for unpaid piano and boat taxes, plus a local furniture store event and night school enrollment.
Yvonne Dionne, famed of the Dionne quints, has joined the WAACs and is in basic training at Fort Des Moines Iowa. She previously worked as a payroll accountant at Quonset Naval Air Station Rhode Island and lives in Providence. Her French Canadian heritage is noted, with distant family links to the quints discussed by Auxiliary Dionne. Her middle name is Marie Emilie.
A survey reports men blush more than women under questioning and examines how youths finish stories, noting trust in a leader as key for delinquent boys. Other items question algebra's cross discipline value and cite medieval hospitals as early temperate refuges.
Ten to twenty years ago note reports Boy Scout troop No 9 first aid team earning a free ride to Chicago for a Midwest contest. Phil Baker visits Cedar Rapids en route from Chicago to Des Moines. Sunshine Mission provided 684 lodgings and 1376 meals to transients in March. Cedar Rapids Woman's club expands its selling department with fifty members undertaking duties.
Workers at a Michigan refinery found a crude false door to the pay office bearing a taunting inscription. The message warned to “scarm to duck Jow r if you don't Buy a Bond” in a distorted, threatening tone.
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