Store Closed for July Holiday Short Break
Local store announces a nine day holiday reducing operations including closure on July 2 and July 4 to allow clerks a longer break. Clara Owen urges customers to plan ahead as the shop resumes after the holiday with extended shopping time. A fire safety notice promotes property protection, fire prevention, and free inspections, mentioning Wil LeMars and Lampert Yards as contacts.
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Clara Owen
Wil- LeMars
Lampert
Local notices mix repairs auctions and college events
An assortment of items from LeMars area notices include electrical wiring services by Henn Electric Co and a rain of small ads for lawnmowers repairs, insurance inquiries, and a talk on dental hygiene at Western Union College. The LeMars Municipal Band concert led by Ira Vail is set for Wednesday at 8 30 p.m. and a gravel pit project on the Buss farm is announced. A German prisoner of war card from Diedrich Rogge mentions his nephew’s status at Camp Polk Louisiana.
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LeMars
Ira Vail
Western Union College
Buss
Henry Rogge
Hennie
Diedrich Rogge
Germany
United States
Diedrich
Camp Polk
Clara Owen Shop promotes sale and new arrivals at Le Mars
Clara Owen Shop advertises play suits priced 5.95 to 8.95 and slack outfits 2.95 to 19.95 with separate sizes for Misses and women, plus infants wear and boxed gifts. It notes a spring clearance on coats and suits, a reminder about a recovered billfold from Smith's Market, and arrivals of infants gifts. Local residents Clara Dr and Austen Smith visit en route to California. Barbara Lynn O'Brien born May 23 in Orange New Jersey to Marylin Thomas O'Brien.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Owen
Clara Owen Shop
Mrs. Austen Smith
Toledo, Ohio
le Mars
California
Dr. Smith
T. E. Cole
Barbara Lynn
John W. O'Brien
Orange, N. J
Ice plant hours and weekend schedule noted
The Ice plant stays open until 9 p m on weekdays 10 p m Saturday and 8 a m to 12 noon Sunday. Mrs A J Osweiler left last night to visit Dr C Page, their childhood friend. en route she will stop in Marshall Minn to see friends. Town Public Service Co line crew fought a tree fire at J C Gillespie’s south Central Ave home Friday night caused by a short circuit in a defective wire.
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A. J. Osweiler
Dr. C. Page
Osweiler
Mrs. Page
Town Public Service Co
J. C. Gillespie
South Central Ave
Card of Thanks and Custody Suit Notes
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy during Herman F. Ladwig’s sickness and floral offerings for Ellwood and Annaleen Ladwig. Mary Braband sues Leo H. Braband in Woodbury County District Court seeking custody of four minor children and 75 dollars per month support, claiming the defendant earns 150 to 175 monthly. couple separated around June 1. Also mentions visitors from Merrill, River Sioux, and Cadet Kenneth Anderson on furlough. notes soldiers and meat consumption fact.
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Herman F. Ladwig
Ellwood
Annaleen Ladwig
Mary Braband
Woodbury County
Leo H. Braband
le Mars
Joe Strub
Merrill
Ralph Anderson
River Sioux
Kenneth Anderson
Anderson
Olathe
Kan
Marie John
Wadis Carved by Rivers in Ice Age North Africa
North Africa’s wadis are thought to have formed by river action during the Ice Age. Researchers cite ancient water flow cutting canyons, shaping desert valleys later eroded and preserved in arid landscapes.
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North Africa
Train Cover Girls Conover Train Televsion Announcers
Conover reports that cover girls are being trained to act as announcers and demonstrators for postwar television. The program aims to showcase new broadcasting techniques and promote consumer interest in home TV sets.
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Conover
Peat Briquets Cut Ireland Railway Fuel Use
Twenty percent of Ireland's railway fuel last winter came from briquets using peat with coal wood and other ingredients. Wax coating replaces shellac on oranges to save shellac for war needs. Three Sights quoted by Col Walter Jensen: fliers must have visual sight foresight and insight as gravity precludes hindsight.
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Ireland
Walter §. Jensen
U.S. Army Air Forces
Versatile Palm Tree Supplies Many Uses for Humans
Palm trees provide clothing shelter cordage wax oil milk and drugs wines and liquors sugar butter fruits flour bread and more. The army plans to double heavy trucks in 1944 compared with 1943 to about twice the amount, based on findings favoring a ten ton truck over smaller models.
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Army
Moisture Evaporation Methods for Home Comfort
The text describes moisture sources in a home such as tea kettles, pans of water on radiators, and house plants to maintain air humidity. It notes that natural slow air circulation without drafts and occasional fresh air ventilation improve comfort in insulated houses.
Pretty wedding in Preston Township
Miss Leona Frerichs, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Frerichs Preston, wed Reinholdt Witt, son of Mr and Mrs Albert Witt Akron, in a double ring ceremony at Preston Township Lutheran Church on Wednesday June 14 at 8 pm. Rev Carl Fenske officiated with Marcell Tapper maid of honor and attendants Wilma Reemis Akron and Marian Anderson Le Mars. Raymond Anderson attended the couple.
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Leona Frerichs
Ernest Frerichs
Preston
Reinholdt Witt
Albert Witt
Akron
Preston Twp. Lutheran Church
Carl Fenske
Lohengrin
Akron Couple Weds in Blue Pink Wedding Dress Attendants
The groom from Akron served as best man with Paul Beech and Glenn Harms as attendants. Bridesmaids wore pink and pale blue chiffon. Amanda Popken sang before the service. The couple will reside on a groom’s mother’s Preston Township farm after a reception and wedding dance attended by many friends and relatives.
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Grom
Paul Beech
Akron
Glenn Harms
Phyllis Kallsen
Inez Tapper
Amanda Popken
Jesus
Red Cross Dressing Folds Across the Nation
In kitchens and shops American workers fold and press sterile gauze into neat squares for Red Cross needs. Sisters, wives, and mothers from Smithtown to Palm Beach labor in stores, churches, schools, and town halls to supply dressings with care, as Alice Hartich notes in the New York Herald Tribune.
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Turnpike Corners
Smithtown
Boston
Ridgewood
Sharpsburg
Palm Beach
Austin
Alice Hartich
New York ‘Herald-Tribune
Tornadoes Ravage Sioux Co Farms and South Dakota Towns
Farmers flee as tornadoes wreck farms across Sioux County Iowa with extensive damage at Dell Mitchell and other farms. A Garret Schoep family basement save. houses and silos destroyed, barns roofless, trees toppled. In Centerville South Dakota a six mile by two mile path destroyed farms including Louie Larson's home. nine cattle died and more losses reported.
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Dell Mitchell
Treton
Garret Schoep
Peter Goslinga
Sioux Center
Granville
Nick Becker
A. Giefer
Melvin Bordman
Henry Sandbult
South Dakota
Centerville
Sioux County
Akron
Davis
S. D
Here
Louie Larson
Larson
Cyclone Rips Farms Across Iowa and South Dakota
A severe cyclone devastated farms near Davis and Centerville, Iowa, demolishing buildings on Olaf Blake’s farm and Melhus Lutheran church while injuring Mrs. Blake. A two-ton corn picker was hurled onto an automobile at Alfred Anderson’s place near Centerville. The Odland couple were pitched 50 feet, escaping serious injury after four ground recurrences. Additional farms near Beresford and other districts reported widespread destruction across a 50 mile strip with many buildings toppled and district 26 schoolhouse torn from its foundation.
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Elza Otten
Davis
Otten
Alfred Anderson
Centerville
Noble Odland
Paul Gilbert
Louis Larson
Melhus Lutheran Church
Olaf Blake
Blake
Destructive tornado path hits towns in Iowa and South Dakota
A tornado outbreak caused heavy damage across regions between Alton and Hospers Iowa northwest to near Davis South Dakota. Lebanon and Ireton area farms suffered major losses including the complete destruction of the Christian Reformed church and town store in Lebanon. No fatalities were reported.
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Alton
Hospers
Davis
Centerville
Ireton
Hawarden
Beresford
Lebanon
Christan Reformed Church
Ted Hansen
George Kooi
Adrian Haverhals
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al Koppert
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Hollis Haas
Minneapolis
Carrie Sherman
Pipestone, Minn
David Patten
Smith's Market
George T. Frerichs
F. H. Frerichs
Minnie
Dick Frerichs
Elmer Jansen
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Howard
John Ommen
the Mars
Mr. Frerichs
Linder’s
TAX Service
Plymouth St. S. W
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Notary Public
Srinkaes
Uncle Sam
Sam
Mack
B. W. E. Rozeboom
Eden CO
Luken Furniture Store
LE Mars Fruit & Grocery
BEN Franklin Stores
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Toe
Willys
Red Cross
Soo Co
S. C
Clifford Schmidt
Bee Insurance Agency
Siebert Haverhals
William Schelling
John van Egdom
Bros
Wesley Miller
Pete Johan van Gammerman
Wickers Haverhall
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Phillips 66
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