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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1944
Page
6
Dr. A E Wiggam says the shock of war yields moral and emotional benefits from hardship. He cites the blood sweat and tears of war as forcing some women to grow up, saying thousands may gain unexpected maturity and strength from such sacrifice.
Pattern 4286 for girls sizes 6 8 10 12 14 features a dirndl skirt with a pocket and a matching blouse. Size 12 set requires 3 3 yards 35 inch fabric. Include a needlework motif pattern for linens with purchase. Send 20 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept. Chicago Ill. Include size name address and style number.
The piece notes adults face hard realities of war reshaping women into responsible roles. It cites Dorothy Baruch’s finding that children prefer nonrhymed poetry and recommends regular play and cheerful talk. It contrasts temperament in writers versus scientists and observes long life hints health. It ends with a list of feared natural enemies of chickens.
Mrs Earl Sampson of a 120 acre Colesburg area farm speaks with Ferne Gater at the Manchester fair. She canned beets carrots beans and peas from her late planted garden and expects sweet corn tomatoes and shell beans to store. She keeps Austra white pullets Guernseys and White Rocks and values her family and community groups while weighing politics and a postwar wish for peace.
A USO dance will be held Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m at the Montrose hotel. Banty Harville's orchestra will play. All servicemen in the city are invited.
Naomi Doebel suggests buying bakers potatoes, Walla Walla onions, zucchini, acorn squash, eggplant, sweet corn and Breen peppers for home cooking. She adds enjoy two steak preparations without ration points and notes cabbage and beets are affordable at local Cedar Rapids markets.
Small greens price lower in some stores. Leaf lettuce, celery cabbage, radishes pricey but crisp. Apples cheap home grown. watermelons and cantaloupe plentiful from Conesville near Muscatine. California peaches arriving. Washington Bartlett pears expected next week at low season ceiling. Red and blue plums offered for canning. many use as breakfast fruit or dessert with pork.
Mary Beard of the American Red Cross advises gradual elevation for patients recovering from infectious disease. Nurses should prop the patient with three pillows to maintain proper alignment and prevent strain while gradually increasing upright position. The note also mentions Robert Fulton building early steam warships and submarines.
Loyalties and assignments surround local service members with promotions and transfers from Lt Morris to Lt, Morris alongside Pvt Lastuvka and others returning to duty in England and France. A separate report details Melvin Johnson and Katherine Kaye's disappearance after days in a Chicago to Lone Tree, Iowa route.
Police held an alleged army deserter from Camp Pickett Virginia and a female companion for investigation after their arrest at First Street Friday. No further details were given in the report.
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