Mink Creek Study Club Meeting and Local Notices
The Mink Creek Study club met at Mary and Ellen Flanagan's home on Thursday May 28 with roll call on Sugarless Recipes. Members discussed canning, poultry raising, and Marie Gehring's paper on The History of the American Flag. A club quilt was shown and tickets sold for Red Cross funds. Numerous local visits and personal updates follow, including baptisms, job changes, and schooling plans.
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Mink Creek
Mary and
Ellen Flanagan
Marie Gehring
Red Cross
Howard Shaffer
Dale Cris Cook
Albert Cook
Arthur Schori Herrling
Arthur Herrling
Sidney Gene
Edward Dean Corbin
Sidney Corbin
Loretta Mattocks
Manchester
Fayette High School
C. S. Flower
WW. F. Moore
Alfred Jenson
Daughters
Waterloo
J. C. Kennedy
Edna Corkery
Mary Kennedy
Marjorie Whittenbaugh
Cecelia Corkery
Fayette
Jennie Molumby
Shirley
Sioux City
Leo Schori
C. B. Schori
Chas, O'Neill
Elgin
Arthur Herrib
Fayette Picks Loretta Mattocks Principal For District
Loretta Mattocks of Wadena has been elected Fayette schools principal and signed her contract. She taught English and Vocational Guidance in Manchester for five years and has prior principal or teaching assignments in Alpha Wadena Britt Hartey and Fayette. She is a 1923 State University of Iowa graduate with further study at Coe College and the University of Minnesota.
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Loretta Mattocks
Wadena
Fayette
Manchester
Fayette Courty
Alpha and
Britt
Hartey
State University of Iowa
Coe College
University of Minnesota
High Altitude Food Oddities Reported In Flight
In a pressurized airliner at 10 000 feet a three minute egg requires 12 minutes to boil, a standard cake collapses, and soup in a vacuum bottle boils and ejects the cork, illustrating unusual cooking behavior at altitude.
Postville Area Births and Visits Highlight Sunday
In Postville area news Mr and Mrs Bernard Hanson welcomed a baby boy born Sunday at Postville hospital. Many neighbors including Olaf Berg Emma and James Friederich Lavern Clinton and Mervin Hunsberger and Barbara visited, while other families hosted and traveled for church events hospital stays include Gerald Blockhus and Walter Mitts having tonsils removed. Kathleen Adel named in Amundson home. Regular visits and local friendship mark the week with multiple calls to Amundson Blockhus and Halverson households.
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Bernard Hanson
Postville Hospital
Orville Berg
Emma
James Friederich
Lavern Clinton
Mervin Hunsberger
Baraba
Olaf Berg
Elmer Larson
Carrie Thorson
Almer Amundson
Palma Gilbertson
Gus Gilbertson
Gerald Blockhus
Walter Mitts
Decorah Hospital
Belle Reierson
Bertha Larson
Ole Reierson
Robert
Darlene
Bert Bruckner
National
Carl Blockhus
Alton
Almer
Minneapolis
Minn
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Arlene Amundson
Bernice Blockhus
Clarence Olson
Sven Blockhus
M. J. Blockhus
Joseph
George Hanson
Carl Halverson
Joseph Olson
Clifford Kittleson
Declaration of war document signed in Washington
Vice President Henry Wallace is shown signing the resolution declaring war on Bulgaria Hungary and Romania. After President Roosevelt signs the document the United States will officially be at war with the three Nazi dominated nations.
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Washington, D. C
Henry Wallace
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Roosevelt
Annual Steel Cans Produce Between 8.6 and 9 Billion
The article cites that between 8.6 and 9.0 billion steel cans are produced annually for food preservation, highlighting large scale manufacturing and industry output.
Appie a day cleans teeth say California doctor
A California physician advises daily apple or carrot or celery to cleanse teeth as effectively as brushing with toothpaste, promoting simple natural care routines and dental hygiene habits.
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California
June gardening notes for vegetables and timing
June gardening guidance covers soil warming for navy beans and Great Northern varieties, planting depth and spacing, cabbage transplants, storage methods for frost-ready varieties, disease and weed control, successive cucumber plantings to offset heat, edible soybeans, asparagus and rhubarb pruning, tomato thinning, and leaf spot management by removing and burning infected leaves. It notes resistant cabbage varieties Wisconsin Ball Head and Wisconsin Hollander No. and cautions on weather impacts.
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Wisconsin Ball Head
Wisconsin Hollander No
Lincoln Interested in Baseball
Lincoln may be the first president linked to baseball interest. The note claims upon nomination he quipped that others would have to wait a moment while he makes another base hit.
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
How He Knew Observation Test With Army Squad
A squad under an officer undergoes an observation exercise climbing a hill. The officer asks Private Smith to count a distant digging party and identify a sergeant among the men. Smith correctly says sixteen diggers and a sergeant, noting the sergeant is not digging.
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Smith
Elgin Iowa Council Proceedings June 1 1942
The Elgin Iowa council met in regular session at the Elgin State Bank due to election board use of the town hall. Bills approved include water rent labor library association cemetery and band expenses salaries and various supplies with permits to see beer and cigarettes issued to named applicants after review by the clerk.
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Elgin
Iowa
Elgin State Bank
Election Board
Falk
Dean
O'Neill
Muehlethaler
Kohls
Schori
Lyle Light
Russell Wenger
Labor Streets
Tom Barker
Central States Power & Light Corp
Matt Parrott & Sons
Elgin Echo
Chandler Co
N. W. Bell Telephone Co
H. P. Moen
M. D
Geo. Boyle
H. H. Wolf
Max Thoma
Lighting check prompts safer autumn driving habits
Shorter days keep motorists driving after sunset so drivers should inspect headlights and tail lights for proper function and brightness visible at 500 feet. Law now requires use of lower headlight beams when within 500 feet of an approaching car.
Navy opens ranks to Negroes in New York enlistment
In New York the Navy began admitting Black sailors as a formal policy change and a ceremony at the Navy Recruiting Office featured Ensign Spencer R. Hackett swearing in a group of new recruits.
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New York
United States Navy
Spencer R. Hackett
Navy Recruiting Office
Midway Island Raided by Japanese Bombers
A scene from Midway Island, a strategic Pacific outpost, after a June 4 raid by Japanese bombing planes. The attack came 1,149 miles northwest of Hawaii, following the third Nipponese bombing assault in the area.
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Midway Island
Strategic Pacific
Ocean
Midway
Hawaii
Sheriff Carlsen Receives B A Degree in Wisconsin
E W Carlsen of Elkader was awarded a bachelor of arts general course degree at the University of Wisconsin 89th commencement in Madison last Monday He had left the university in 1928 to take a job before finishing his studies and later joined the Madison police then became sheriff in 1938 His criminology and penology courses in the university extension department aided his degree attainment.
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E. W. Carlsen
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Sheriff Carlsen
Elkader
Bering Strait Closest Russian Point to American Shore
The distance from East Cape to Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is about four miles, marking the closest approach of any part of Russia to the American shore.
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Bering Strait
East Cape
Russia
Cape Prince of Wales
Alaska
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J. E. Klingman
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M. A. Klingman
Elizabeth Kohler
Wm. Peters
Clermont
George E. White
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John Flanagan
Bernice Sniffin
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Frank Welch
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Town City
University Hospital
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