Boys in Service From Graettinger Area News in England and Stateside
Graettinger residents are noted as being in England and the United States in military service. Names include Russell Carnes Carney and family visits at hospitals. Others report sailors home from Pearl Harbor and Des Moines physicals for Navy duty. A nurse, Lt Anna Rasmussen, visits her brother in England, while comrades share letters from overseas and the 34th Army unit.
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England
Graettinger Boys
Energland
John Mills
Kenneth Johnson
U. Ss, Navy
Pearl Harbor
Oahu Island
Omaha
Graettinger
Eaghind
Annal K. Rasmussen
Red Crags
Cpl
Carl Rasmussen
Pfu
Howard Noble
the Times
Cpl Rasmussen
State Island
New York
Carl
Car
34Th
Africa
North Africa
Sicily
Anna K. Rasmussen
State Island Hospital
Schick General Hospital
Clinton
Iowa
Discover Your Hidden Talent With Army Work Corps
Have you a hidden talent Join the WAC and learn you can be trained for one of 239 vital jobs The Army offers full details at the nearest recruiting station or by writing The Adjutant General Room 4415 Munitions Building Washington DC
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WAC
Army
U. S.S. Army
Adjutant General
Munitions Building
Washington, D. C
Social Items From Lost Island Community Notes
Social items recount meetings and celebrations across Lost Island. Activities include library fund tea, Embroidery club luncheon, 4-H Walnut Merry Maids program, birthday and anniversary observances, and various bridge and dinner gatherings with hostesses named and dates noted.
War Bonds Message from a U-Boat Victim
Amid the Battle of the Atlantic a U-boat sinks and Sparks, the radio operator, sends his last call as lifeboats drift away. Millions of dollars in food, supplies, and munitions bought with War Bonds vanish with the wreck. The piece urges harder work, greater savings, and more frequent investments in War Bonds.
What You Buy With War Bonds and Navy Size Change
The piece notes Pearl Harbor prompted a one ocean navy of about 350 ships and an expanding shipbuilding program. It argues for greater War Bond purchases to fund hundreds of Liberty ships and auxiliary craft in a five ocean war, urging continued support of U.S. Treasury bonds.
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Pearl Harbor
U.S. Treasey
Family heirlooms from historic wars on display in Decorah
Mrs. Burt Hemme of Decorah possesses a collection proving her family’s wartime involvement. Items include a flatiron used in the Revolutionary War, dramaticks from the Civil War era, and large knives wielded in World War I. Wilbur Davis, Henning’s brother, serves in the current war and is stationed in Milan.
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Burt Hemme
Decorah
Wilbur Davis
Henning
Milan
Church Notices at Immaculate Conception and South Walnut Lutheran
Multiple church notices outline Mass times confession and Sunday school at Immaculate Conception and South Walnut Lutheran, with details on Lent services led by Rev. Julius Masted, confirmations, and upcoming dedications and observances. Activities include Luther League, Dorcas Mission Society, and Men’s Fellowship with sermons on immortality and Easter themes.
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Luther League
Lars Thomsen
Dorcas Mission Society
Ray Glazier
Julius F. Masted
South Walnut Lutheran Church
Julius FF. Masted
Cintreh School
Men’s Fellowship Club
First Lutheran Church Confirms and Holds Services
Readings from First Lutheran Church and Our Saviors Lutheran Church outline Saturday confirmation at the parsonage and Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. with divine preaching by Rev. Julius Master. Midweek Lenten services, chorus practice, and Ladies Aid events listed with dates and hosts.
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E. A. Grefthen
Milford
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Hewin Clemitson
Arnold Bisgard
Jens Rasmussen, Jr
Ole Thoresan
Home Mission Society
Amd
Karl Holte
Floyd Eaton
South Walnut Church
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Oklahoma
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Iieb
Times
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Ted
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House
Senate
National Legionaire
Frans Swanson
Bernard Doerning
John
Doerning
Bernari
Canada
Legion
Home Service
Foreign Service
John Nelson
American
Hawkeye Theater
Graettinger, Owa
Young Ideas
Susan Peters
Herbert Marshall
Lucie Ball, Harry James
Gildersleeve
Broadway
Death Valley Rangers
Holte
Home Mission Society of
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ABC
Rosa Clayton
Red Grass
Embroidery Club
H. A. Elsenbast
Walnut Merry Maids
Elnora
Wanda Powers
Esther K¢ham
Madelyn Lammers
Marjorie Mortiani
Norman Thoreson
Playd Eaton
Freddie Master
Kathryn Christianson
O. L. Thoreson
Freddie
Two Table Bridge Club
C. A. Jensen
A. W. Rilaman
Cere
Church
Doreas Mission Society
Doreas Mission Society of
St. Paul's Church
First Lutheran Ladies Aid
Ladies Aid
First Lutheran Church
Mesdames
E. Clemitson
Lost Island 4-H
Arlene Russell
Doris Simonson
Joy Knutsen
Arlene Busse
Mrs. Simonsen
Torpedo Junction
Ocean Navy
Tmmiculate Conception Church
TL. Winey
Jacobsen
Methodist Church
D. Heber Miller
Julius
Northrup, King & Co
Anil
Bert Anderson
Cine’inger
Carl Eeeves En Peewe
Insurangh
Real Matate
D. J. Skow
Severnl Good Farms
Adolph Spies
Graettinger Nursery
Glasse Brown
Times Office
J. S. George
Youne Holstein
Otis Hauge
Graetfinger
Marley’s
Turner
McWilliams Hardware
John Deere
Arthur Ramsey
Gradlinger
Naucetiy
Sali
K. W. Reed
Phine
Algo Jamesway
Simmons
John Andre
Hamilton Watchery
Bancroft
Town
John Donaldson
George Washington University
Fay McKenzie
Jensen Drug Store
White
Lixelly
Fred Masters
Emmetsburg
Glenn Henrich