Legion Auxiliary Pin and Christmas Gift Plea
A Sioux City poem on the Legion Auxiliary pin honors a wounded son and explains the group’s support for veterans. The piece segues into a Christmas gift pitch for a year’s subscription to the Graettinger Times, noting regional pricing and its role in keeping communities connected. It finishes with brief local notices: Kent Thomas of Anita killed by a rifle incident and a Rock Island Rocket deer hunt near Manly.
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Legion Auxiliary
Elsie French Wolcott
S. P
Sioux City
The
Graettinger Times
Graettinger
Kent Thomas
Anita
Kent
Uncle Sam urges saving with monthly savings bonds
The notice urges readers to join the Payroll Savings Plan and have their banks buy a savings bond each month. It argues that investing $18.75 monthly in a $25 bond grows to a $2,500 nest egg in ten years.
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U.S
Savings Bonds Plan Promotes Automatic Nest Egg
The notice advocates joining either the Payroll Savings Plan or the Sond-a-Month Plan to automate savings in United States Savings Bonds. It emphasizes built in ease and security, urging regular purchases as common sense for financial protection.
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United States
Treasury
Pop
U.S. Treamey Drpatimons
Community Church Notices and Schedule Highlights
Church notices list Mass times and confessions at Immaculate Conception, worship and Sunday School at Methodist, St. Vani's Lutheran Brotherhood meeting and services, St. Pauls Ladies Aid Christmas party and meetings, First Lutheran worship and choir, Luther League and confirmation classes. Includes bake sale details at McCann Grocery and various Sunday services.
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Immaculate Conception Church
Hwy
K. Hurley
Methodist
J. Heber Miller
the Heights
Loyal Workers Circle
Edmund Herke
Claude Norris
WLCS
McCann Grocery
St. Paul’s Ladies’ Aid m
St. Paul's Aid
St. Paul's
The Road to Security lead role via U.S. Savings Bonds
A promotional notice from the Treasury Department invites readers to invest in U S Savings Bonds as a personal path to security. It touts regular purchases, a guaranteed contract in the savers favor, and claims of long term returns while highlighting family support and patriotism.
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U.S
Sam
JS. Treasury
Sunday church schedule and home mission meeting
The item lists worship at 9:00 and 9:30 A M with Sunday School at 10:30 A M at Our Savior's Lutheran Church. The Home Mission Society meets December 6 at 2:00 P M at the Rier Halverson home. Confirmation class Saturday at 10:45 A M at the Martin Simonson home. Bible study December 9 at 8:00 P M at Clarence Christianson home. Swine influenza warned by American farmers with a disaster risk, high prices, and a five point prevention plan.
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Our Savior's Lutheran Church
Home Mission Society
Rier Halverson
American Foundation For Animal Heath
Swine flu warning and town financials from 1947 notice
The document merges a health advisory on swine flu risks in hog farming with a late 1947 town council financial ledger. It warns about keeping hogs away from waste piles to prevent virus spread, stresses veterinary checks, and lists town salaries, snow shoveling payments, fuel, and supplies with totals and vendor names.
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Amerian Foundation
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Wm. Bendix
Calcutta
Alan Ladd
Miss Pilgrim
Betty Grable
Dick Haymes
Errol Flynn
Claude Raines
Pramed
Glenn Ford
Janis Carter
St. Vani’s Lutheran Church
Fred Jacobsen
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Charles
Kenneth Henningsen
Frans Swanson
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First Lutheran Church
E. W. Quamn
Ole Thorson
Luther League
Ernest Knutsen
Dorn Landing
John
Regal
Jayson
Jayson Pajamas
Cooper’s Sox
Tra Selwitz
Inbor
Albert Jengen
Dale Duhn
Tra Schultz
State Bank
State ‘Tax Commission
Herke Farm
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Koeneman Bros. Cr
Sewar
Walter Graettinger
Madrid
S. Nawe
Salary
Albert Janson
Salary Water Ji
A. Hisenbast
Bond Town Clerk Co
Ler
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Light Plant Light & Power
Co-op Grain Co
J Jensen Drug Store
Gr. Telephone Co
Charles M. Varney
Ralph Masters
Truck C. & N. of Co
Nels G. Nelson
Grachtinger
jSim Stedman
Mane
Gudrid S. Naae
Legion Hall
Amby Meyer Orchestra
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Thomas
Legion Ballroom
Bancroft
Guy Deleo
Ray Stolzenberg
Graettinger Nursery
Grabpttinger
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Herke Farm Store
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