Take-a-Card Quiz Debuts Tonight on Mutual and WGN
Wiery Butterworth hosts the new Take-a-Card radio quiz tonight from 7:30 to 8 p m on Mutual and WGN. Five contestants per show will draw cards and win up to 250 in war bonds cash or prizes for correct answers. Honey Johnson and Jimmy Wallington assist. Lew Lehr is featured in the premiere.
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Wally Butterworth
Mutual
WGN
Butterworth
Vox Pop
Honey Johnson
Bob Hope
Jimmy Wallington
Lew Lehr
Radio Schedule Fragments From April 1915 Listings
A dense OCR of 1915 broadcast timetables shows WMT WGN KXEL EXEL stations with hourly program blocks. Entries mention News, Dr Bradley, Lone Ranger, Mary Miles, Vic Lindlahr, Uncle Sam, Jane Foster, and multiple soap operas, musical segments, and market updates across April 28 1915 and April 29 1913 dates. The text preserves a chaotic daily grid of shows and hosts.
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Jerry
Zelda
WMT
WGN
Reveille
Dreier
Exel War Journal
Happy Haines
Dr Bradley
EXEL
Shelley
Finchville
Lem Turner
KXEL
Toby & Susie
Mary Miles
Austin
Vic Lindlahr
Cliff
Helen
Jane Foster
Shelley Exel
Aliang
Joyce Jordan
Mel Gil
Love
O’neills
LE U
Guiding Light
WMT Bach
WGN News
Holbrook Exel
Blkwell
Malone
WGN Wom
Vic
WGN Music Mart
Lone Journey
Mary Marlin
Gene & Gleat
Uncle Sam
Sam
Ma Perkins
Pat
Mike
Youngs
Saac
WMT Horizons
Snow Villace
1540 Club
Jenny
David Harum
Wil
Ews
Grant
Cowboys
WHO
Shell
Jim Poole
Kerrigan
Wes
Red
WGN Denecon
Detroit Hearse Drivers Strike Ends After Union Pact
A Detroit strike by union hearse drivers that threatened to delay about 50 funerals ended when the city’s largest undertaker firm signed a union contract on Tuesday afternoon.
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Detroit
Food Poisoning Strikes Pentagon Cafeterias
Thirty eight war department employees—including seven officers and two enlisted men—fell ill from food poisoning after lunch at the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia. Civilians were hospitalized while military personnel were treated at the base dispensary. samples from all six cafeterias were collected for investigation.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Pentagon
Arlington
Induction pause hits Iowa limited service at Camp Dodge
Des Moines reports a temporary halt in accepting Iowa draftees with physical defects for limited service at Camp Dodge. The pause began about two weeks ago and runs until Saturday. Officials say May inductees at Camp Dodge show no more than 5 percent acceptance for limited service as physical standards are revised to separate general, limited, and nonservice classifications. Decisions will be made at the induction station, not by local draft boards.
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DES Moines
Davis Urges Farmers to Plant to Limit Amid War Demand
Food Administrator Chester C. Davis appealed to farmers to plant to the limit of their acreage despite harvest limits. He framed this as the most important crop season in American history and promised government help to mobilize labor to harvest the crops.
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Washington
Chester C. Davis
Davis
Five Farmers Held for Price Code Breach in Cabbage Sale
Five Pavo farmers were held on bonds of under $1,000 each after U S. Commissioner W E Perry charged them with violating the federal price control act and with excessive handling charges in cabbage sales. OPA investigators testified they billed $105 a ton, $12 over the ceiling, claiming the excess covered loading and unloading. The men admitted the price but said the extra was for hauling. the produce came from their own farms.
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Valdosta
Pavo
United States
W. E. Perry
OPA
Perry
Martin pledges all-out fight for rum tax plan
Rep. Martin, leader of the minority in Congress, vows to push the pay-as-you-go rum tax scheme through Congress without changes. He dodges Sabath's presidential speculation and says Willkie might run again while Dewey rules out a bid. He adds a GOP win could occur with any candidate a year from now.
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Mass
Congress
Rep. Martin
New Bedford Standard-Times
Adolph J. Sabath
Martin
Wendell Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Navy Concedes Allied Ship Losses Exceed Construction in 1942
The Navy admitted that Allied merchant ship losses in 1942 surpassed new construction by about a million gross tons. At a briefing with Senator Brewster, Secretary Knox said figures vary by measure and that submarine losses accounted for over half of ships sunk since 1939, with Britian and Canada adding to 1942 builds.
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INL
Navy Department
United Nations
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Brewster
Senate
Truman Committee
Admiralty
Navy
Committee
Great Britain
Canada
Five French Leaders Escape From Nazis Reach London
Five prominent French figures arrived in London after escaping Nazi occupied France to join Gen. Charles de Gaulle. The group includes Dr. Henri Queuille former food minister, Pierre Vienot former undersecretary of state, Georges Buisson, Marcel Poimboeuf, and Gen. Georges Suffren, all reported by Fighting French headquarters.
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London
France
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Queuille
Reynaud
Pierre Vienot
Blum
Georges Buisson
Marcel Poimboeuf
Georges Suffren
Chrysler Heads Get Taste of Army Life
Detroit AP report says two Chrysler executives K T Keller president and E J Hunt operating manager of the Detroit tank arsenal lived in the field with the Sixth armored division during February maneuvers in California. Their three and a half days in the field followed a Keller Washington discussion on distributing spare parts for tanks and trucks in maneuver areas.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
K. T. Keller
E. J. Hunt
Detroit Tank Arsenal
Sixth Armored Division
California
Keller
Army
Washington
Liquor Commission Employees Get Raise in Iowa
Des Moines AP reports that Iowa Liquor Control Commission employees face salary increases from five to fifteen percent. The raises apply to all staff including store managers and workers earning two thousand dollars yearly or less. In effect May 1, the chairman M L Curtis said the boosts align with 1943 legislative policy for state employees.
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Liquor Commission
DES Moines
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
M. L. Curtis
Commission
Curtis
Commission Raises Only in Lower Brackets
The official noted increases will apply only to the lower wage brackets because of a substantial reduction in staff. About 600 employees will be affected and their salaries are set by the commission, not the legislature.
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Commission
OPA Moves to Curb Whisky Black Market and Fix Prices
The OPA announced measures to fix gross profit margins for wholesale and retail whisky dealers and set flat prices for new liquor brands to combat a black market and dwindling spirit supplies. Deputy price administrator J. K. Galbraith warned of criminal actions against large operators over bulk whisky purchases above ceilings and proposed treble damages against sellers. Notice: Estate of Frantiska Ruska appointment of executor in Linn County Iowa.
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Washington
OPA
J. K. Galbraith
Linn County
Frantiska Ruska Jate
Iowa
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets advertise gentle bowel action
The ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to stimulate liver bile secretion and improve intestinal movement. It claims relief from constipation and related symptoms like headaches and dullness, urging readers to follow label directions and buy at drugstores for 15, 20, or 25 cents.
City of Rapids Iowa Receipts and Expenditures 1942 43
City financial report for the year ending March 31 1943 shows total receipts of 1 275 857 60 and expenditures of 1 270 935 65 across General Government Police Sanitation Highways and Streets Conservation of Health Municipal Enterprises and recreation. Utilities report adds water and electricity receipts of 265 926 15 with expenditures 235 406 90. Bonded debt and valuation data included.
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Municipal League
Protection of Life and
Os Fire Department
Maes Levee
Ceneemene
Telephone, Telegraph and Express Company
R. HE. Norman
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