Iowans Not Complacent by Result of Scrap Drive
Reports in Iowa detail wartime production boosts and farm target goals for 1943. A. J. Loveland outlines increases in hogs beef poultry and corn while soybeans hemp and flax see shifts. Sherlock critiques geography for speakers but notes state officials by region. Local sports and school notes follow with December activities and a Christmas program cast list.
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Iowa
A. J. Loveland
United States Dept. of Agriculture War Board
Loveland
W. E. Sherlock
O'Brien County Bell
Primghar
Sherlock
Reps
Earl C. Fishbaugh, Jr
Shenandoah
Henry W. Burma
Allison
Fishbaugh
Treas. of State
Agricul
Correction on West Union game and school events
The Clermont School notes corrects last week’s report: West Union won the first game 25 to 17. School starts at 9 15 due to shortened days with two school bosses arriving at 9. A pair of former students visited on Monday and Tuesday, Ray Vasby Doris Johnson and James Gilbert.
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West Union
Clermont
Ray Vasby
Doris Johnson
Ray
Army Signal Corps
Des Moines
James Gilbert
PostsVille
Clermont Local News Highlights Household and School Notices
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Halverson dined at the John P. Camp home in West Union Saturday. Ivadell Carpenter, a first and second grade teacher, was ill Monday and replaced by Mrs. T. G. Ressier. Irene Ostlic has moved from the Clermont area to Castalia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Halverson
John P. Camp
West Union
Ivadell Carpenter
T. G. Ressier
Irene Ostlic
Clermont
Castalia
Old fiddler dies at 91 in Des Moines fire
Truman Crook a longtime state fair fiddlers contest winner died in Des Moines from asphyxiation due to a rekindled fire after smoking a pipe in bed. The incident reflects wartime phrasing with a stark call to action.
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Truman Crook
Des Moines
New Books Added to Library Collection
Forty two books have joined the public library shelves including twenty two juvenile titles and twenty adult election books. Adult fiction feature The Cup and the Sword Ho bart See Here Private Hargrove Get Thee Behind Me The Day Must Dawn and others while juvenile selections include The Toy Workshop Gloomy the Camel Columbus the Bear and Thomas the Cat The Little Engine that Could and more.
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Public Library
Hobart
Hargrove
Hargrave
Spence
Turn
Bull
Aldrich
Atwood
Big Springs
Phillips
Angelo
Widdemer
Gardner
Parmenter
Johns
Longstreet
Banning
Bassett
Hill
Lincoln
Seifer
Sandra O’moore
Willoughby
the Toy Workshop
Ramsey
Gloomy
Paull
Columbus the Bear
Thomas the Cat
Whitney
Little Engine
Bragg
Friskey
Disney
Hartrng
Banta
Gecko
Skinner & Withers
Winston Companion
Maltby
Gates
Huber
Washburne
L’hommedieu
Warren
Manly & Griswold
Smith
Santa Claus
Trott
Owen
Taylor
tChaffee
Carol
Boylston
Thad
Barbour
Delecta Ann
Lockwood
Great Britain Holds Largest North American Territory
The statement notes that Great Britain possesses the greatest expanse of territory in North America, highlighting its colonial reach and imperial prominence in the region.
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Great Britain
North America
Ickes to Head Revitalized Labor Department in Plan
Washington reports Harold L Ickes is slated to lead a revived Labor Department that may include the Selective Service Commission War Manpower Commission and the U S Employment Service. The Elgin Echo notes Mazodkie Belle 215306077 was eligible for registration but the former owner questioned the $3 fee. She was sold for 85 and later fetched 350 at public auction after her papers were reviewed in the American Jersey Cattle Club in New York.
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Washington, D. C
Harold L Ickes
Secretary of Interior
Labor Department
Selective Service Commission
War Man Power Commision
U. S. Employment Service
American Jersey Cattle Club
New York
Wolves Seen in Mahaska County Prompt Reports
Farmers near Truax in Mahaska County report wolves roaming timber belts, a rarer sight each year in Iowa. The fragment mentions U S defense bonds, a Des Moines mail carrier delivering with few vehicles, and wartime slogans, reflecting a cluttered historical page.
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Truax
Mahaska County
Towa
United States Defense Savings
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Clermont Enterprise
Agnes Paulson
Fayette County
WAAC
Fort Des Moines
Army
Iowa State Fair Grounds
Edward P. Felker
Waacs
Elgin
Ossian
Stanley
Miss Vasbey
Dicken
Velma Thorson
Delores Thompson
Joseph Olson
Donald Steffens
Millard Nelson
Mary Martin
Glendal Nygard
Shirley Olson
Marguerite Sullivan
Leland Probert
Junior Larson
Billy Swenson
Wanda Lou Wilson
Robert Johnson
Joan Gerner
Elsie Jerdee
Donna Johnson
Evelyn Miller
Howard Stumme
Fred Wilson
Marilyn Follett
David Appelman
Gloria Buraas
Ronald Gunderson
Rose Hackmann
Lorraine Kittleson
Gerald Schupanitz
Gloria Butaas
Elsie Marie Jerdee
Scrooge
Arlene Gilbert
Robert Larsan
I. C. Jerdee
Clermont, Iowa
Louis Schutte & Son
Clermont and
Postville
Clermont School News
Thrifty
RUBY
Eagle Ledger
RAVEN
Hondred
Hell Bend
Press Weleg
Cena Snd
THE
ECHO
Desmones E. Shermen
Dunkerque
Toulon
Iris
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