Navy courtmen practice basketball on shipboard
Navy crews aboard the aircraft tender Wright field strong athletic programs with a shipboard basketball team. Intra fleet competitions seed rivalries across crafts, with basketball, football, baseball, boxing, bowling, wrestling and more. Tr a ships and individual awards typically honor championship teams and players.
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NAVY
U.S.5
Wright
U. S. Navy
Dennis
Uncle Samn
Iron Scrap Roundup Aims to Aid War Effort
Iowa railroads launch iron salvage drives in road yards and rights of way to reuse metal for the war period. Any unusable salvaged iron will be handed to the government. Rep Tatle of Decorah proposes a federal offense for theft of tires and tubes during tire sale restrictions, with penalties up to 3650000 or imprisonment or both.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Rep. Tatle
Decorah
Congress
Graettinger Area Youths Serving in U S Armed Forces
A list from Graettinger and vicinity details residents in the U S military services. Names span Army Navy Air Corps Marines Coast Guard and various specialties with notes on branches and ranks. Readers are invited to report missing names or corrections to keep this registry accurate for future reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graettinger and Vicinity
Army Navy
Air Corps
Local Notes from the Times on Diverse Community News
A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Gorton Pratt of San Diego is celebrated as a local blessing while Mrs Tillie Winters is remembered for farm work. Guests Mr and Mrs Jack Phillips of Deadwood SD visited Mrs D J McCarty. Graettinger friends hear greetings from Mr and Mrs Joe Lyons of Red Top MO. Marian George of Mason City spent Sunday with her parents BE George. A garage fire ends with a flare up, and the old Waverly brewery sale to eastern interests for 11000 is reported with industrial alcohol plans. Several service members named from Graettinger and nearby towns are listed with ranks and units. A Straw wedding in Hansell is noted, and Seminole leader Sam Jones’s wartime relocation of women and children to Hendry County is recounted with growth of remnants of posts.
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Gorton Pratt
San Diego
California
Marian George
Mason City
George
Sam Jones
Arpeika
United States
Jones
Hendry County
D X Cafe Welcomes All Customers With Friendly Service
D X Cafe invites patrons small and large to enjoy home cooked food and coffee. Whether a full meal or a cup of coffee they offer high quality service in an attractive setting. Folgers coffee is used, fresh and fragrant. Extra special Sunday dinners 50c. Please call to reserve if possible.
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D-X Cafe
Vandyke Brown Pigment Named After Dutch Master
Vandyke brown is an earth pigment of a rich deep brown. It derives its name from the old Dutch master Vandyke who used the color effectively. The pigment comes from bog origin and contains iron and bitumen.
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Vandyke
Macadamized and the Names of Soldiers
A fragment lists the word macadamized and traces its derivation from four languages. It then itemizes numerous service members with surnames Rasmussen, Petersen, Starkey, Thompson, and others across Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, and Air Corps, including divisions and ranks.
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Perdue
Forrest
Army
Petersen
Sergi
Orvald
Ai Corps
Petersen, Corp
Karl
Field Artilery
Merle
Navy
Calvin
Peterson
Henry
Rasmussen, Dick
Moat Expensive Road The Hyasiki Suyway Story
The Hyasiki Suyway opened in 1902 for Thanksgiving traffic and is described as the world’s most costly road for its length. The raised section spans three tiles and cost 321 million dollars, with approaches at 19 million more. At 50 feet wide it could hold five traffic lanes and sees about 26 million vehicles annually, crossing the Hackensack and Vasente Rivers in New Jersey.
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Imator
Hackensack
New Jersey Aiea
Training Camels Socialized Drives Motion
The article notes camels are highly social and will not start a journey unless accompanied by others. Col lier's Weekly reports that trained young camels move easily, while many undisciplined animals refuse to budge for hours when faced by drivers, even with beating.
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Collier’s Weekly
Ancient footwear used 3500 years ago across regions
Footwear in ancient times employed animal hides metals grasses bark and wood over 3500 years. Heeled designs emerged in some areas to lift feet above hot desert sands, reflecting material use and regional adaptation.
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World
All Day Cigarettes: Size Defies Morning to Night Use
An anecdote from Collier's Weekly describes the all day cigarette as one to two feet long and about two inches in diameter. The impresive size supposedly allows a single cigarette to last a family from morning until night, with the smoker even using it as a defensive weapon by noon.
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Collier’s Weekly
Longest Session of Conure During World War I
The longest session occurred during World War I, spanning 304 days from December 3, 1917 to November 21, 1918. It followed a special assembly urged by President Wilson on April 2, 1917 to declare war on Germany.
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Conure
Beesioh
Wilson
Germany
Beton and Beton in Concrete Construction
Beton refers to concrete in masonry and beton means concrete mixed with cement and sand after the French method. It is widely used as hydraulic cement in submarine works and entire buildings have been built with it.
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Graettinger State
Graettinger
Mail Ox
Dai
Palo Alto
Emmetsburg
Heighy
U. S
Times
Phil
R. EF. George
I. W. Kreizenbeck
Norman Osher
Clarence Cuthbert
Earnest Osher
Raymond Nelson
McCarty, Ted
Aanonson
Eldon
Allen
Dwayne
Anderson, Emmet
Anderson, Dolliver
Army Signal Corps
Arganbright, Karl
Battleman
Donald
Army Air Corps
Bisgard
Albert
Field Artillery
Boecker
John
Armored Division
Vincent
Meech
Cavalry
Bosold
Robert
Army Medical Corps
Brobst, Marl
Bryan, Kenneth
Navy Air Corps
Carney
Earl
Carter
Infantry
Christensen
Gilbert
Christiansen
Clarion
Marines
Clemitson
Art
Conway
Leo
Cranmer
Roy
Cress
Douglas
Glynn
Dalen
Arnold
Edward
Doerning
Bernard
Duffy
Eugene
Carl
Duhn
Clayton
Lloyd
Fink
Harry
Army — Air, Corps
Fitzpatrick
Richard
Fry
Hi. M. Couch
Adel
Don
Willard
George Washington
Ja Corps
Garber
Burton
S, PY. Trestle
Allerton
Grady
Joseph
Green, Boyd
Hartman
Melvin
Hatfield
Marion
Hayes
James
Helgeson
Harold
Coast Artillery
Jen
Henningsen
Kenneth
Hermansen
Holte
Ralph
Hogswell
Vance
Iverson, Raymond B
Medien! C
Jacobson
Thorval
Jensen
Mac
Cay
Finance Office
Holger
Johnson
Russell
David
Joyce
Larsen
Lowell
Larson
Louis, Sr
Leonard
Luchsinger
Roland
Lundgren
Chester
Ellis
Lundgren, Glen
Mammen
Frank
MtCarty, George
Kiel Artillery
MacDonahd, Carel
McKenna
Herbert
Moffitt
Murray, Delmar
Nelson
Keith
Noble
Willis
Notle
Howard
Wansell
Hansell
Secretary of Agriculture
Food For Victory
Royal Lumber Co
A. R. Maurstad, Mer. Graettinger
Carrie Doyle
Prop
Olesen
Melville
Olson
Hob
Clarence
O'Neill
Bob
Onley
Rasmussen
Biergen
Irvin
Riley, Robert
Rolfson, Byron
Sampson
Sandvie
Dale
Simonson
Field — Artillery
Spies
Starkey
Virgil C
Cletus
Wodrow
Thompson
Arnold E
Delmer
Faye K
Coast Guard
Vollmert, Alfred
Young, Charles
Young, Leo
Farmers Grain Co
Rotter
Alex Apts
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