Selectees and School Faculty Honored Monday
A Monday gathering honored selectees and school faculty with remarks by Coach Leo Brown and John E B Doherty. Pfee Bill Burdo and Orin Smith home on furlough were introduced along with Willard Bicknell and George White of the Service Men's Club. Dr W Fisher and Dr John H Hall spoke on duty to God and Country, ending with a group sing of the national anthem.
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Gordon Grant
Pfee
Bill Burdo
Seaman
Orin Smith
Willard Bicknell
George White
Service Men's Club
White
W. Fisher
Michigan Selective Service Board
State Board
John H. Hall
Clare County
Enrollment drives for Junior Red Cross November 1 15
President Roosevelt lauds the organizations 25 year history and wartime role in a Silver Anniversary letter. Miss Hether notes enrollment is to recruit members rather than raise funds with school based activities and 50 cent classroom enrollments in elementary grades and one dollar high school units.
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Roosevelt
American Junior Red Cross
Miss Hether
Junior Red Cross
Red Cross
Dogs Do Sentry Duty At Munitions Plant
A German shepherd, a Norwegian elkhound, and a greyhound become the first sentry dogs at a Hudson River munitions factory. Plant officials praise their conduct and note they boost morale while awaiting any intruder alert. The dogs honor Herman E. Mellenthin and mark the first group trained by amateurs.
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Hudson River Gailley
Herman E. Mellenthin
Letter from Alonzo Stanford Opens Chile Post Plans
Vice Consul G Alonzo Stanford writes friends Mr and Mrs Will Garchow about leaving Washington for Tocopilla Chile with wife Alice in November. He outlines travel via Cali Lima Arica and Tocopilla then Santiago and back to Arica, sharing hopes for a nitrate deserts experience and noting mail address in Tocopilla Chile.
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Clare
Will Garchow
Alonzo Stanford
Department OF Stathe
Washington, D.C
Alice
Miami
Forrest
Tocopilla
Chile
Cali
Colombia
Lima
Peru
Arica
Santiago
Forest
Alonzo
G. Alonzo Stanford
Aerial Bombing's Rise From World War I To Modern Bombers
The piece traces aerial bombing from World War I origins with unarmed planes and pilot duels to later innovations. It notes early crude bombsights, the 1921 Martin bomber sinking the obsolete battleship Alabama, and the progressive increase in bomber speed and payload, aided by the improved bombsight.
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Army
Army Air Corps
Martin
Virginia Capes
Alabama
Contour Farming Reduces Erosion and Improves Yields
Contour plowing on pastures and meadows subject to erosion uses buffer sod strips along contour lines and wide grass waterways in eroded draws. Contour strips 18 to 30 feet wide cut erosion losses, reduce point rows, allow turns, and enable selective cultivation of productive field areas while avoiding overly steep or low-yield sections.
Mullanphy Emigrant Fund Created For Travelers Aid
The will of Bryan Mullanphy, executed in August 1849, left one third of his estate to the city of St. Louis to form a relief fund for poor immigrants and travelers heading to the West. Died June 15, 1851. city accepted the trust November 16, 1857, establishing the Bryan Mullanphy Emigrant and Travelers' Relief fund. The trust runs the Mullanphy Travelers' Aid society and cooperates with the National Travelers' Aid society.
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Bryan Mullanphy
St. Louis
Missouri
Mullanphy
Bluebird Diet Includes Insects Not Fruit Thievery
A bluebird’s food consists mostly of beetles grasshoppers caterpillars spiders and other insects with no recorded theft of domestic fruits or crops. The note clarifies the bird has not been charged with stealing from crops or “larids.”
Eighth Annual Community Fair at Clare High
The notice outlines the Clare High community fair events including a three act play Health Wealth and Romance directed by Miss Wiggins with a cast featuring Charlie Shkennan Reginald More Katie VanLoom Millie VanLoom and others. The article adds life expectancy data from 1939 noting women at birth averaged 66.4 years and men 62.6 years with significant gains since 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare High
Miss Wiggins
Charlie Shkennan
Bill Archambault
Reginald “Whinnie
Bob Moline
Katie VanLoom
Jeannette Rube
Millie VanLoom
Barbara Murphy
Error Tripp
House of Health
Bob White
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CERO
Leo Brown
John EB. Doherty
A. J. Doherty
Bernard Wyman
Noo Ceiline Amfort
Davy Bldg
RCH
Yieg
SRD
Caroline Robinson
Kingsley
Sylvester Baines
Charlie
LaVern Wood
Madge Vanbloom
Helen Murphy
Beth Shepherd
Madge
Betty Presley
Freckles
Wallace Rilett
Wilma Anderson
Terror
Halth of Health
Ruth Rank
Wertz
Henry Eberhart
Rose Duval
Slappy
Loree Allen
Jack Tice
Clare School
North Star Grocery Company
Michigan
Rowena
KRAFT
Strong
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