Mexico Charms and Contrasts Captivate Woman's Club
Miss Nora Johnson spoke to the La Crosse Woman's club about a years-old trip through Mexico. She highlighted contrasts between wealth and poverty and described places like Mexico City Chapultapec and Xochimilco, noting the Venicelike Xochimilco and Taxco's colonial layout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Nora Johnson
la Crosse Woman's Club
North Side
Miss Johnson
Mexico City
Chapultapec Castle
Shrine of Guadalupe
National Museum
Palace of Fine Arts
Quetzalcoatl Palace
Xochimilco
Taxco
Venice
Mmes. Rice
A. E. Teacha H. M. Church
H. R. Kiney
WAC Transfer Signals Growing Army Support
Pvt. Arline M. Goeldner of La Crosse left Fort Des Moines with a Women’s Army Corps unit for Camp Crowder Missouri. Wacs now operate at more than 268 posts across 48 states the District of Columbia and overseas as the program expands. WAC units supplement soldiers in over 400 army jobs from accounting to weather observing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Arline M. Goeldner
Onalaska Avenue
la Crosse
Women’s Army Corps
Wac
Army
Camp Crowder
States
District of Columbia
Milwaukee nurse Anna Dean Leque joins Army Nurse Corps
Colonel Wm McCarty announced the appointment of Anna Dean Leque to the Army Nurse Corps with the rank of second lieutenant. Leque, a Lutheran Deaconess Hospital graduate in Chicago, practiced nursing in Milwaukee and comes from a family in Galesville, Wisconsin. She has been assigned to McCoy, Sparta, effective immediately.
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Milwaukee
Anna Dean Leque
Army Nurse Corps
U. S. Army
Wm. McCarty
Sixth Service Command
Miss Leque
Lutheran Deaconess Hospital
Chicago
Galesville
Wis
Ee McCoy
Sparta
War-time work in England sees 750000 plus older volunteers
More than 750,000 people aged over 65 in England are engaged in war work. The figure reflects widespread participation by seniors in essential labor during the war effort.
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England
Winona Vows Tie Trempealeau Soldier to Houston Bride
Robert J. Hayter of Yuma Arizona and Betty Winjum of Houston Minnesota were united in marriage at the First Baptist parsonage in Winona. The groom is a Trempealeau High School graduate who attended NYA school in Winona and plans to report for U S Army duty January 27. The bride taught in Yucatan Minnesota and will continue teaching this school year. A postnuptial shower followed the ceremony at the groom’s parents home.
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Solberg
Hayter
Canton
Minn
Preston Normal
Yucatan
Trempealeau Healy Memorial High School
NYA
Winona
U. S. Army
Camp Hood
Tex
Yuma
Adorable puffed sleeve frock for little girls pattern 8561
The smallest girl in the family will be prettiest in this puffed sleeve snug waist frock. Pattern No 8561 comes in sizes 2 to 6 pears and requires 134 yards of 39 inch material for size 3. Send 15 cents and 1 cent postage to The La Crosse Tribune Today's Pattern Service, 530 South Wells, Chicago Illinois with name address pattern number and size.
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Ric
la Crosse Tribune
South Wells
Chicago
Ill
Steamed Nut Bread Bridge Party Treat
A historical recipe note by Gaynor Maddox describes a steamed nut bread for a bridge party with ration free fillings, plus a molded salad course and tea. It includes ingredients, mixing steps, and steaming directions for the nut bread and two gelatin molded vegetables served with dressings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaynor Maddox
NBA
Locals Visit Relatives and Seek Treatments
Walter Radtke of La Crescent is visiting his brother Corporal Richard Utecht at O'Reilly General hospital in Springfield Missouri. Lena Marr of 231 North 8th street is at home with an injured knee from a fall. Sgt Harry Buttman on a ten day furlough visits his parents in town. Mrs Gerhard Davis of Soldiers Grove has influenza and is now a patient at Grandview hospital.
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Walter Radtke
la Crescent
Minn
Richard Utecht
O'Reilly General Hospital
Springfield
Lena Marr
North 8Th Street
Fuller
Harry Buttman
Camp Gordon
Gust Butzman
Prospect Street
Gerhard Davis
Soldiers Grove
Grandview Hospital
War Girls Get Rest Cure
British auxiliary war service girls breaking down from strain are sent to a villa near London equipped as the anteroom of the center where nerve strain is cured. Rest lasts 10 days to two months before return to work. Patients write their own accounts of work, enjoyment, and distress before moving to a larger nearby hospital.
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London
Ration Card System For Shoes Reported In Yugoslavia
Report from Belgrade Yugoslavia states Croatia issued rubber sole shoe ration cards for children to buy only rubber soled shoes from a Czechoslovakian company. Women's shoe ration cards will be issued later. No details on men's shoe rationing are available.
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Croatia
Czechoslovakia
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Repressive Seating Order Bans Mixed Attendance in Clones Theater
Patrons in Clones Ireland face segregation by gender at the town's sole moving picture theater with men and women seated apart unless married. Managers enforce the division, directing men to one side and women to the other, with little impact on box office during the first week of the policy.
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Moving Picture Theater
Clones
Eire
New Order
Love finds way spurs fake ambulance calls in Dublin
Dublin fire brigade investigated a scheme where two girls admitted making bogus emergency calls hoping to lure a fireman with an ambulance. Both confessed to fabricating the alarms to attract the crew.
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Love
Dublin
Widow seeks $5 daily pension from Mexican congress
Dona Soledad Seanez claims to be the sole surviving widow of Pancho Villa and petitions Mexico City's congress for a five dollar daily pension citing her husband’s services to the revolutionary cause. The article notes Native Indians taught whites to catch oysters with a forked stick.
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Pancho Villa
Dona Soledad Seanez
Mexican Congress
Mexico City
Tulip aprons and Anne Cabot crafts offered by La Crosse Tribune
Advertises spring hostess aprons with multicolored tulip prints and silk scraps plus a pattern for the Appliaved Tulip Apron Pattern No 5400 available for 15 cents postpaid. Also promotes the Anne Cabot Album winter 1944 with 32 pages of sweaters mittens scarves hats and gift designs priced at 15 cents per copy.
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Anne Cabot
la Crosse Tribune
South Wells
Chicago
Illinois
Teenagers Favor Rummy With Cream and Bavarian Desserts
A NEA styled feature notes teen girls enjoy gin rummy and host parties. It details Bavarian cream dessert with a simple recipe and serving ideas in paper rims, plus a Florida Perfection Salad recipe using grapefruit juice and vegetables in molds.
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Florida
Tour of Viterbo College Highlights Local Auxiliary Visit
Twenty five members of the Women's auxiliary to La Crosse County Medical Society toured Viterbo College following their January meeting. Sister Cyrilla and Sister Joseph guided the visit to a four year college offering bachelor arts and science degrees with teacher training aims. The business session named a nominating committee as coffee was served. Royal Neighbors Harmony camp installed officers on January 14. Also noted is a furlough visit by Corporal Joseph Powers from Nashville with his parents.
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la Crosse County Medical Society
Viterbo College
St. Francis Nurses Home
Viterbo
University of Wi
Central Mothers to Hear Democracy in Education Talk
Central Mothers League will host Dr. Wilbur H. Glover speaking on Democracy in Education Friday afternoon at 2 30. Hostesses are Mrs. Theodore Solie and Mrs. W. W. Horner.
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Central Mothers’ League
Wilbur H. Glover
Mothers of Central
Theodore Solie
W. W. Horner
Beverly Mary Wing-Finnigan and Donald Finigan wed in Florida
Mr and Mrs J D Wing announce the marriage of their daughter Beverly Mary to Corp Donald Finigan in Jacksonville Florida on January 6 He is the son of Mr and Mrs W Finigan of Granton Wisconsin and is stationed at Camp Blanding Florida
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J. D. Wing
Wood Street
Beverly Mary
Corp
Donald Finigan
Jacksonvile
Fla
Corp. Finnigan
W. Finnigan
Granton
Wis
Camp Blanding
Home front cooking and wartime clothing care tips
Mary Lamb outlines potato cakes with flour and baking powder and gives wartime advice on moth-proofing and packing servicemen's clothing. Guidance covers dry cleaning, moth killers, garment bags, sweater stretching, and storing coats hats and shoes with care to keep them ready for when servicemen return.
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NEA
New Citizens St Ann’s Birth Announcements
Jan 19 1927 births list from St Ann’s and St Mary’s Hospital Wausau Wisconsin shows Ella Nederlee daughter of Henry and wife at 815 South 19th Street. Jan 19 Keith LeRoy son of Hans R Kolden and Mildred Phillips at 1241 Green Bay Street. Jan 17 Irene Brown born to Frank Pasnecker and wife, Irene Brown, nurse graduate at St Francis hospital.
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St. Ann’s
Henry Willer
South 19Th Street
Ella Nederlee
Keith LeRoy
Hans R. Kolden
Green Bay Street
Mildred Phillips
St. Mary's Hospital
Wausau
Wis
Frank Pasnecker
Irene Brown
St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing
Marriage Licenses La Crosse Couple to Wed Jan 22
Rita Papenfuss of 1003 South 9th street and George Londkoski of 1507 South 9th street plan marriage in La Crosse on January 22.
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la Crosse
Rita Papenfuss
South 9 Th Street
George Londkoski
South 9Th Street
Homemakers Show Rugs Can Last Longer With Simple Repairs
University of Wisconsin home furnishings expert Clara Jones offers at home methods to extend rug life. Steam to lift crushed pile, brush with the pile, avoid wetting freeze or twist rugs, and resize with thinned glue for stiffness. Cut protruding tufts level instead of pulling.
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Madison
Wis
Clara Jones
University of Wisconsin
Miss Jones
Miss Jonas
Ireland’s flax acreage rises in 1943 by eight thousand
Eire planted about 27 500 acres of flax in 1943, roughly 8 900 more than in 1942, reflecting increased wartime fiber needs and agricultural adjustments.
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Eire
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