Public School News Highlights Thrift Stamp Drive and Bonds
A week of Thrift Stamp activity at the public school shows Walter Jlelekes purchasing 12 stamps and Joseph Zander purchasing another bond. Several families pledge weekly or monthly stamp purchases, with many parents signing up. Teachers report attendance and absences due to illness and medical leave as students and staff participate in the government stamp program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Min Lan
Thrift Stampa Innur
Walter Jlelekes
Joseph Zander
Thrift Stampecky
Annie Hoolure
George Yemkow
Albert England
Anna Kristufek
Norman’ Nimmer
Lucila Miller
Marinv Guardalabene
Walter Heltakes
Loraine Vanek
Lillian Reichardt
la Verne Schiuidt
Evelyn Lofmana
Marie Osenberg
Walter Sion
Lilian Misch
Edward Forroued
Eleanor Trovat
George Qemkow
Annie Kealuro
Fred Lorenz
Aller Schwan
Frank
Luelle Miller
Eni Sell
Wumpa
Joseph Gengler
Garfield School News and Thrift Drive Updates
Garfield School reports students purchasing Thrift Stamps under Miss Houck with names like Edward John Clarence Lillian Evelyn. The Red Cross fund drive continues as grades visit Irene Held garden for a nature study. J. Welsh and Jol Geruchefakie improve and expect to return soon. Several students recover from illness and are back at school. Graduating pupils receive class pins and plan a group catering event. Clarence Troost earns his third War dhamp. Marle Erdman and Franklin Haahn have been out recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlon Wilson
William Cutton
Lave Gokl
Elenare
Burton
Red Cross Canteens Shine as Model War Room
An American Red Cross worker describes a new canteen for French and Allied soldiers. The room features blue walls with floral stenciling, bright decorations, two banners, and red white oilcloth. It will serve coffee soup cocoa ragout and fried eggs when meat runs short, with dormitories, fumigation, incinerator, and 1000-seat kitchen planned.
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Miss Kirkpatrick
Mise T
Sega
Ap & Recreation Room
de Beaux Art
Beckett
Kirkpatrick Isoo
France
Too Young to Keep Gas Masks On
The piece cites American Red Cross actions aiding French children and wounded soldiers in France. It notes Red Cross automobiles delivering supplies to hospitals near Toul and Evian border aid, and asserts government should match such efforts to sustain French resistance lines.
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Red Cross
Red Crow
Toul
Nancy
Crom
France
Germany
Evian
Hed Crossan
Italy
Hay-Burners: Civil War Era Oxen Fueled Railway Tale
The Memphis El Paso and Pacific line ran 40 miles between Marshall Texas and Shreveport Louisiana during the Civil War. John Higginson held many roles from chair to master mechanic while using oxen in box cars to haul freight and passengers on a thrice weekly schedule. Freight charged high and passenger fare was 25 cents. Early lines also used animals, including horses on the Baltimore and Ohio. Buy it in Forest Park.
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Noue
Memphis
el Paso
Paci
Marshall
Tez
Shreveport
John Higginson
Higginson
Garher
Mr. Higginson
Gloreveport
United States
Haltimere & Olte
Teath
Guide for Road Engineers standard forms issued
The Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering of the U S Department of Agriculture issued bulletin No 650 presenting standardized forms for specifications, testing procedures, reporting test results, and sampling methods to promote uniform highway practices and cooperative federal aid work across states.
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Office of Public Roads
Rursl Aengineering
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Good Roads Needed to Aid Commerce and Transportation
The article argues that railroad transportation is inadequate to handle commerce and calls for comprehensive road construction. It emphasizes establishing regular trucking, rationing, and terminal facilities to move vast national production to factories and consumers safely and predictably, noting production beyond local needs creates economic loss without proper delivery networks.
French and Indian War soldiers honored for restraint
The fragment recalls French troops marching from Rhode Island to Virginia during the French and Indian War. It praises soldiers who did not complain over shortages of provisions like pig, chicken, or apples, and says honor is more than a word for them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pane Nkiin
Hin Mamoire
Rhode Island
Virginia
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Park, Tl
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Delco
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Elgin Ave
American Can Co
Charles Road & Seventh
Maywood, Ill
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Forest Park Review
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Fersat Park
Otto E. Lover
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Fred B. Brink
Henry D. Schumacher
Twelfth St. Col. Elgin Ave
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Lowe- Bros
W. Madison St
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Dvorak
Madiven
Chicago Telephone Company
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Iren J
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