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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1941
Page
12
The store promotes itself as a place where customers live better and spend less. It emphasizes profitable pleasures of buying clean wholesome foods and invites shoppers to enjoy the O. B. S. Store experience.
This weekend offers big red Malaga grapes at three pounds for 25 cents, large home grown cucumbers two for 5 cents, New Biss Triumph potatoes 65 cents for fifty pounds or fifteen pounds for 20 cents, and medium grapefruit four for 16 cents.
A 1941 sale promotes honey in ten pound pails at 83e per pail with a two day Friday and Saturday offer.
Red Rubber Fruit Jar Rings go on sale this Friday and Saturday with two packages offered for sale. Se price details are provided in store flyers and local ads.
The ad promotes OB Flour at 1.45 for a forty nine pound bag and a two pound can of coffee blend priced at 3. The offer includes Golden Bantam Cream Style Corn at a low weekend price per can.
Huron College announces all 1941 graduates secured positions of responsibility. Five will coach in September including Bill Cameron at Canistota High School and Dell Caldwell as standby athlete. Thad O Keefe takes Carthage High coaching post while Bernard Schneder and Elgin Wollman take Reville and Letcher coaching roles respectively.
British hair-saving drive urges women to keep and donate hair clippings for plastics and armaments. Hairdressers ordered to collect after each cut, worth about a dollar per head when processed, aiding wartime production and meteorology instruments.
Philadelphia judge convicts George Ferguson a 40 year old Negro weighing 127 pounds after lifting a 600 pound bronze city hall railing. Ferguson declines to fight and receives six months. Other items include a horse-wrangling accident in Lymouth Indiana and a punchline parrot incident in Seattle. Clinton Iowa uses a system to keep juveniles out of taverns with nightly squad visits.
A readable fragment mentions Frons and a beverage with adults present plus a report to parents the next day. Chief Martin D says the program is working, but details are sparse and no names or dates are fully clear.
Three New York University football candidates hail from Europe. Jack Barmak, a blocking back, and Bernard Feibish, a veteran center, were born in Russia. Nicholas Fortinges, a tackle, is Turkish.
In the Civil Service apportionment, 16 states are over their quotas including South Dakota with a quota of 336 and 492 jobs held. Other overages listed include Iowa Minnesota North Dakota Montana Nebraska and more, while 32 states fall short of their full quota and residents in under quota states get first consideration. A separate note mentions Central American natives prize the iguana as food.
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