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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1946
Page
2
Full leased wire reports and rate card from The Associated Press listing subscription prices for Monroe city and surrounding areas. Includes local delivery options and mail rates across Wisconsin and adjoining states with advance payment terms. Editorial section header.
In a column praised by some for hitting the nail on the head Pegler decries New York press excesses and the public image of Fiorello La Guardia. He argues sensational coverage distorts reality and notes how newspapers inflate trivial heroism while miscasting serious issues.
The author and Mrs. Mack travel by train to Newhaven then a crowded aging boat to Dieppe, noting dangers from floating mines, military crowds, and cramped bunks. They observe war scars across France, French peasants tending soil, and freckled crosses on houses signaling defiance against the occupier.
Marine Sgt Roy E Jordan seeks a home for his wife and an 18 month old son. To advertise he wore a sandwich board along the boulevard reading Have you a home flat or apartment for my self my wife and this horrible monster with an arrow to a photo of Roy Jr The item captures a lighthearted moment amid postwar housing shortages.
In Brawley California Mayor Elmer Sears and New York Mayor William O'Dwyer toured a clogged sewer. Sears joined the crew by rolling up his sleeves and pitching in, joking that O'Dwyer had not done a hard day’s work since becoming mayor. The sewer they worked on extended into Sears’s office.
Ray Jackson reported his purchased 16 by 16 shack for which he paid $40 to the government was missing when he checked on it, saying the structure did not exist. Police were informed.
Swanson Memorial Hospital in Canby Minnesota needed cooks but found no staff. Unable to hire a head chef and assistant, the hospital asked for volunteers and local Canby housewives answered, taking turns manning the kitchen duties.
Miss Clara E. Trumpy marries Forrest R. Briggs. George Armstrong presides over the newly organized Juba Gun Club with John Andereck as secretary treasurer and George Long paying Monroe taxes first. Henry P. Babler Jr. dies at 78. a gas station worker in Monroe is assaulted as Green County starts the new year.
Many residents and relatives from Monroe Madison New Glarus and Milwaukee hosted and visited over the New Year. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holcomb Sr and family, Sgt. Alden Kundert on furlough, Miss Caroline Voegels, and the Riese Clarence family among others.
Wisconsin may receive the entire 32nd Division rather than sharing it with Michigan when the national guard is reorganized in 1946 or early 1947. The Review notes proposals to reorganize and confirms the Wisconsin state guard will be maintained until the national guard is established. Maj. Gen. Ralph M. Immell, on military leave, assists the War Department board on the future guard setup.
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