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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1944
Page
3
Frances Eby Jakoubek outlines thrifty styles for a wartime wardrobe. Plastic buttons, fur scraps, and clever alterations transform last year’s garments into fresh 1944 looks. She notes practical accessories and versatile separates for teens and women, with tips on hats, belts, and trims.
Use a one yard remnant for apron gaiety Pattern 4684 with contrast applique and ruffles. Sizes small medium and large available. Small size requires 1 yard 35 inch fabric and percent yard contrast. Send 20 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept 130 N Clinton Street Chicago Ill. Print size name and address.
Drills from Red Cross nursing guidance emphasize careful up settings after illness. The first sitting should occur after rest, with a supportive chair, pillows, and a gradual transition from bed to chair, keeping to a 15 to 20 minute window unless the patient tires.
Alexander the Great founded the city in 331 B C E creating a strategic harbor that became a gateway to the East.
Grace Yessler niece of Mrs. Ruta Harless and Master Sgt. Marion I. Welle son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Welle of Newton wed September 9 at the First Methodist church in Iowa City with Dr. L L Dunnington officiating. The bride wore a gold alpaca street dress with Talisman rose corsage. she is a Cornell College graduate and Clinton High School teacher. Sgt. Welle, a Parsons College graduate, is on temporary duty after service in Italy with the medical battalion of the Thirty fourth division.
Berlin radio reported that U S Superfortresses bombed Iwo Jima in Monday raids. A Tokyo dispatch claimed eight of 30 bombers were damaged by Japanese defenses, though no U S announcement confirmed B 29 involvement in the operation.
London reports nearly two thousand American Fortresses Liberators and fighters struck western Germany in a broad bombardment targeting Kassel Oppau Ludwigshafen Cologne Mainz and other sites. RAF and US air forces suffered losses with 30 German planes down and allied aircraft missing.
Canadian troops arrived in Melbourne as the first units to land in Australia. They were welcomed by Canadian High Commissioner Judge David, who suggested they might form the vanguard of a Canadian Pacific army.
Harmon R. Taylor of Cedar Rapids was named president of the Fraternal Actuarial Association during the opening day of the National Fraternal Congress fifty-eighth annual convention in St Louis Missouri.
Frank Kasper of 1113 Ninth Street SE Cedar Rapids received the American Meat Institute’s gold service button for 50 years in the meat packing industry. He joined Wilson’s in Cedar Rapids in 1891, started pressing lard, moved to beef dressing, and became a cattle butcher with no lost time. Thirty-one Wilson’s Cedar Rapids employees were awarded the silver button for 25 years.
Betty Hume of 606 Second Avenue SW reported a brown coat valued at 25 dollars stolen from the Temple Roller rink check room on Monday night. Police records also show a fern valued at 5 dollars taken from the porch of the Ruby Taylor home at 1744 D Avenue NE over the weekend.
Berlin radio reports Japanese captured Wuchow an American airbase south of Kweilin in China. Tokyo broadcasts say most American air forces at Kweilin had moved to Wuchow, signaling a strategic shift in the region.
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