Nursery School Center Opens at Vocational School
Mrs Rose Bellevue supervisor of city nursery schools announced the Vocational school center has operated since June 5 from 645 am to 530 pm with longer hours possible. The daily rate is 45 cents per child. Expected enrollment is 30 to 35 children aged two to five. Program includes rest periods meals and stories and music with supervised play indoors and out. A city nurse visits daily to check health, and staff are specially trained. For visits call 1161 or visit room 108 at the Vocational school.
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Rose Bellevue
Hamilton
Roosevelt
Bellevue
Floating Hospital Afloat For Convoy Escorts Tested
The PCE R 853, a large patrol vessel built by Pullman Standard, tested on Lake Michigan and prepared for convoy escort duties. It accommodates 57 passengers, includes a hospital with operating room and dispensary, and carries seven officers and 100 men with a physician aboard. Estimated cost ranges from $1 million to $1.5 million.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Pullmen-Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Paul S. Goen
Constellation Sets Transatlantic Flight Record
TWA's airliner, the Constellation, completed the cross continent trip to Washington D C in 6 hours 58 minutes setting a new record.
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TWA
Washingto, D. C
Baptist Church Centennial Observed at La Crosse
The 20th bi annual Norwegian Baptist conference at Calvary Baptist Church marked its centennial with speeches by Dr G A Hagstrom Dr S P Fagdl and Dr John W Thomas The celebration notes the first Norwegian Baptist ordained in 1844 and local church histories in Wisconsin and Minnesota The Luftwaffe jet interceptor from 1943 is also mentioned with its climb rate and impact on RAF battles.
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Calvary Baptist Church
Charles and
Logan Streets
G. A. Hagstrom
Chicago
S. P. Fagdl
Clarks Grove
Minn
John W. Thomas
New York City
American Baptist Home Missionary Society
P. Stiansen
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
Stianesen
Norwegian Baptist Conference
Wisconsin
Oconomowoc
Halfway Creek
North la Crosse
America
United States
Canada
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Norway
Congo
Africa
Northern Baptist Convention
Stiansen
Luther Wesley Smith
New York
Luftwaffe
Brunswick
New Jersey Could Be Key Battleground In Election
A Gallup survey shows Roosevelt would hold a slight edge over Dewey in New Jersey if the election were held today. The state, with 16 electoral votes, has a history of voting Republican in 1942 and 1943 but often favors Roosevelts in presidential contests.
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Joe
Princeton
N. J
New Jersey
U. S
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Ea Reblican
Albert Wkes
Republic
Walter E. Edge
U. S. Senate
F.D.R
James Cromwell
Warren Barbour
Cromwell
Middle Atlantic
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Illinois
Michigan
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Tsaccces
Drichigor
Cécescs
Seventy Two Refineries Produce 100 Octane Gasoline
Seventy two refineries are now producing 100 octane gasoline, with production up 400 percent in 1943 according to the report.
New Non Fiction Titles In the Public Library Listing
A catalog of postwar non fiction offerings including Album of American History edited by James Truslow Adams The Pageant of Japanese History The Pageant of Canadian History Aircraft Powerplant Manual Modern Poultry Farming A Guide to Bird Watching Ward Morehouse George M Cohan biography Seven Myths of Housing by Nathan Straus and related works highlighting history culture and practical guides
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America
Pearl Buck
Marion Dilts
Japan
Anne Merriman Peck
Canada
New France
North America
United States
G. B. Manly
Louis Hurd
Joseph Hickey
Linnaean Society of New York
Ward Morehouse
George M. Cohan
The
Cohan
Nathan Straus
United States Housing Authority
FBI Official T. G. Melvin to Leave Milwaukee Post
T. G. Melvin a veteran FBI agent since 1935 and former special agent in charge from 1937 to 1939 will depart Milwaukee Monday for an unspecified posting. A Vermont native he served 17 years and worked in the New York Washington Oklahoma City and St Paul divisions.
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Milwaukee
T. G. Melvin
FBI
Vermont
Melvin
New York
Washington
Oklahoma City
St. Paul
Glider Pilots Fight With Airborne Troops At Cherbourg
British port action details paratroopers and glider crews who joined forces to clear snipers, capture prisoners, and escort more than 300 Nazi captives back to England. Wisconsin servicemen Sol Belinky Robert Stone and Lawrence Kurale share close calls and praise for the airborne troops.
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Cherbourg
England
Sol. Belinky
Milwaukee
Wis
Ste. Mere
Robert Stone
Any GOP Candidate Would Win Spangler Declares
CHICAGO four Harrison E Spangler chairman of the Republican national committee said at a press conference that any nominee would be elected. He spoke amid last minute convention prep and invited former standard-bearers Hoover Landon and Willkie to join platform discussions. In the Mediterranean theater the Thunderbolt helicopter is repurposed as a high altitude precision bomber carrying two 1000 pound bombs.
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Chicago
Harrison E. Spangler
Republican National Committee
Spangler
Herbert Hoover
Alf M. Landon
Wendell Willkie
Platform Committee
Mediterranean
Larry Kearns To Play For Tomah USO Dance
Nationally famed dance director Larry Kearns will perform at the Tomah USO on Saturday June 27 to call off circle two-steps quadrilles Virginia Reels and other folk dances. Hostesses will wear gingham frocks and country atmosphere will be created with decorations.
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Tomah
Wis
Kearns
Virginia
LVT Boats Used in South Pacific Tanks That Swim
The famous LVT boats are described as amphibious tanks used in the South Pacific with revolving turrets and a 37 mm cannon capable of firing from any position.
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South Pacific
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