Red Cross War Service and School News Highlights
In northern Africa a wounded soldier receives vital care from the American Red Cross as it stresses its wartime duties and community emergency roles. The article celebrates the organization's broad service, urges financial support, and notes its communication link to troops, families, and POWs. It also features student poems, classroom updates, and high school news as pupils discuss studies, dramatizations, and upcoming servicemen inductions.
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Africa
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Primary and First Grade Class Learn Grow and Read
The 1st grade finished number workbooks with Karen Kiple and Janice Schori achieving top work. Students made flower pictures to brighten the room and 2nd and 3rd graders have new reading books, reading Friends About Us and Our Book World in the Workshop. They study Indians and milk, draw March pictures of the wind, and 2nd grade English includes picture study and writing stories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lauretta Gilson
Karolyn Falk
Miles Standish
Karen Kiple
Janice Schori
Dld Grady
Sahara Desert
Fourth and Fifth Grades Progress Report Card Items
In fourth and fifth grades students practice dividing with two numbers and review addition and subtraction of fractions. Sixth and seventh grades note poems in class and a birthday treat.
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United States
Europe
Asia
Africa
Mexico
West Indies
Birthday Calendar and Campfire Notes Include Local Events
March birthdays listed for Dorothy Grimm Jennnings Mitts Roberta Mosby Ronald Jarms. Wahanka Campfire Girls held a Our Flag ceremony at the schoolhouse on March 19 with Wohelo Call and Answer, flag stripes and Iowa star placements, songs and pledge. Alumni notes list Albert Schupbach and others. news includes a divorce: Helene Scholz and Ralph Howard Roberts finalizing settlement and custody—address and asset details. The Waterloo Courier report notes various local notices and social updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Grimm
Jennings Mitts
Roberta Mosby
Ronald Jarms
Wahanka
Guardian
Wohelo
Burington
Columbia
Iowa
Marlene Mosby
Helen Wenger
Barbara Crider
Marilyn Falk
Bertha Casper
Georgana Falk
Helene M. Roberts
Ralph Howard
Howdy) Roberts
WMT
Shannon B. Chariton
Roberts
Guttenberg
Waterloo Courier
Governor Delays Tax Return Amid Session Pressure
The Office of Price Administration bans banqueting for the duration as March 15 tax deadlines loom amid legislative pressure. The report notes the governor had not filed his own return the day before due, with context tied to a $100 plate New Deal dinner in Washington and Hopkins’ prior banquet sprees. Fred Gebhardt, long-time Tama drayman, retires after 51 years after a fall and ongoing injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Denniler
Thomas
Paris
West Union
Elgin
Glass
E. H.S
Office of Price Administration
Washington
Harry Hopkins
W Northwood
Fred Gebhardt
Dan "Hoffman
Tama
Hoffman
Quite Young Wellington's Forces Rise in Battle Letter
A fragment notes that Wellington deployed officers aged 16 and men aged 14 in a late campaign. The report highlights unusually young ranks and raises questions about command authority and wartime recruitment practices.
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Wellington
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Anna Mae
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Hazel Gilbertson
Bernice Blockhua
Violet Landsgard
Lois Miller - Letha Adrian
Virleygene Bailey Benlor
Virleygene Bailey
Florence Olge
Georgana Falb
Jane Falb
Maxine Lehman
Beverly Larson
Maxine Nelson
Harvey Gilbertson
Michael Blockhus
Robert Wenger
Miller
Gilbertson
Block
Hazel
Lois M
Norma T
Violet L
Mike
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Schori
Shippy
Albert Schupbach
Hudson Motor Co
Detroit
Mich
Robert Howard
de Kalb
Ill
Clarence Haas
Louis Evans
Arthur Lantz
James Hermen
Maxine Hunsberger
Georgia Lou Grimes
Aerke
RGU
R. P. Strauch
Echo-Enterprise
Dial
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Elgin Echo
Avalon
Better Pictures
Jack Fallows
Cosococo
Kent Smith
Bonita Granville
Hitler
Ingrid Bergman
Humph. Bogart
French Morocco
Dick Powell
Fred Waring
Priscilla Lane
Ted Healy
Lings
Cory
Lil Kips
Reg
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Gene Byrnes
Rele
Just
Sam Nichols
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