New York Girls Join National Land Army For Harvest Work
More than 3,000 women and girls will wear overalls and straw hats to harvest berries and vegetables in New York starting after June. They will live in dormitories or hotels, earn about 3 dollars a day, work up to 48 hours weekly, and may include Sundays. Mission is to feed home front allies as men are called away.
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New York
INS
New York City
Feminine Land Army
Farm Placement Service
United States Employment ‘Service
Henrietta Rothstein
Miss Rothstein
Land Army
United States Employment Service
Kruschen Salts Ad Claims 30 Day Liver Aid Routine
An advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a daily morning dose for 30 days to improve bile flow and relieve headaches constipation and indigestion. It promotes purchase at May's Drug Store and promises satisfaction or money back.
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May
Roosevelt warns Pacific chiefs to avoid loose talk
President Roosevelt urged the Pacific war council to abstain from loose talk that could reveal vital information to the enemy. Attendees left the White House meeting with vows for cautious public statements ahead of major operations. Canadian Minister Leighton McCarthy said, We got quite a lecture. No one cited specific examples or blamed any government, individual, or newspaper.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Pacific War Council
White House
United Nations
Leighton McCarthy
Cedar Rapids special election on airport tax bonds
Notice announces a June 1 1942 special election in Cedar Rapids Linn County Iowa to consider a proposition authorizing a annual tax not exceeding one half mill to fund airport bonds up to 325000 for acquiring and establishing an airport. Polls listed by precinct with locations and times. City Clerk Maude M Krers signed the notice dated May 7 1943. published May 7 14 21 1947.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Linn County
Towa
Hearn-Stevenson Motor Company
Avenue SE
B Avenue
India
Oakland Road
H. Avenue
Benjamin Franklin
BR Avenue
20Th Street
Pirth
Arthur School
37Th Street
Kenwood Park
Jackson School
4Th
H Avenue
6Th Street
Roosevelt School
Mth Street
C Avenue
Cleveland School
1St Avenue
1Sth Street
MAUDE M._KRERS
Cedar Rands Garvette
109 Cornell Seniors to Receive Degrees Monday
Cornell college will confer degrees on 109 seniors Monday morning in King Memorial chapel. The list includes graduates from multiple towns and states such as James Bailey Appleton Wisconsin and Marjorie Baker Cedar Falls with many more names and hometowns reflecting a broad regional cohort.
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Cornell
Mt, Vernon
Cornell College
King Memorial Chapel
James Bailey
Appleton
Wis
Marjorie Baker
Cedar Falls
Jean Ballou
River Forest
Lucile Balster
Monmouth
Ivis Boyer
Lois Brower
South English
Jeanette Carlson
Pocahontas
Ivan Carter
Fremont
Winifred Chamberlin
Clarence
Betty Chiquet
Iowa Falls
June Clark
Oak Park
Dorothy Collins
Knoxville
Chicago Heights
Charles Field
Monticello
Ellen Francke
Mt. Carroll
Virgil Gash
Rock Falls
Charles Gillette
Mt. Vernon
Bernice Gough
Charles Hammond
Mt Vernon
Philip Hanna
Farollone Islands Secluded in Sugar Ration Plan
San Francisco officials disclosed that the Farollone islands, 25 miles off the Golden Gate, were nearly forgotten in war rationing. Residents appealed for sugar ration books and a coast guard special agent was to be appointed to deliver them amid harsh seas and landing buoys.
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San Francisco
INS
United States
California
Office of Price Administration
Farollone Islands
Golden Gate
Farellone
United States Coast Guard
Buses in National Parks Banned Across West
Officials told by transport company representatives that sightseeing buses serving western national parks will face a ban. The briefing with Jo outlined impending restrictions expected to affect tour operators and park access.
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Washington
Western National Parks
Transportation director bans park sightseeing buses this summer
Seph B. Eastman, defense transportation director, orders no sightseeing bus trips in parks this summer due to tire shortages. The move aims to preserve limited tire stocks and ensure essential services remain available during the season.
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Seph B. Eastman
Defense Transrtation
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