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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1943
Page
1
New Year urging Americans to improve personal health during 1944 focusing on pneumonia prevention in Iowa’s winter months. It notes 35 to 50 percent of 1944 deaths from pneumonia and stresses staying well to support war effort and avoid burdening others. Symptoms include chills fever chest pain and bloody sputum.
Jones county farmers already diversify with mixed crops but could boost profits by treating poultry as a core business. Improved cold season housing, ventilation, and cleanliness would raise returns, funded by profits from this year. A poultry emphasis complements eggs in every basket and could show surprising year end income gains.
Reading and writing critic praises Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War for vivid battlefield scenes showing Arabs, camels, and planes. The piece notes Fortresses surviving on two engines, soldiers’ fraternization in Oran, USO visits by Carole Landis and others, and upcoming works Der Fuehrer by Heiden and Pour Jills in a Jeep from Carole Landis.
A compilation from small town papers reflects wartime thoughts on civility wage disputes inflation subsidies and labor weeks. It notes Taft Nimitz quotes and John M Grimes replacing Bagley on checks as a frugal Iowa example with no sweeping federal reform.
Opinion column outlines expected Republican candidates for governor and U S Senate in Iowa for 1944 primaries and general election. It considers Governor Hickenlooper's influence on races, potential entrants from north and south Iowa, and possible shifts in lieutenant governor and congressional seats. It notes nationwide interest in Iowa politics and the breadth of primary competition.
Christmas Day in Center Junction districts featured large dinners at the homes of McDonald, McNeilly, Dreibelbis and Seehusen families with relatives from Ames Monticello Anamosa and Ryan Onslow Scotch Grove and Cedar Rapids. The town also hosted a split basketball double header as Center Junction and Onslow teams posted results and a Boy Scout troop was announced for organization next week.
American Red Cross informs Mr and Mrs Warren that their son Leo Warren, killed in Italy, was buried with full military honors in Sicily. Other notes mention Onslow neighbors, Christmas visits, inductions into the U S Army, furloughs, and holiday gatherings across the community.
Money is available on Iowa farms this year and should be just as plentiful in 1944. Use your excess cash and lay plans in the chicken department that will pay handsome returns in the years ahead. It has been considered a woman's job in years past. Let the man of the place turn a little of his spare time and aid his wife to do the job right. Call in the Farm Bureau extension agent and let him guide you. Put Iowa on the poultry and egg map for 1944.
From the Monticello Express files, December 21, 1933, items note H J Rickless of Lovell township dies after a two year illness, Will H Hanken dies after a Dec 9 stroke, Mrs Matt Seibold, Sand Spring, passes away, and Dubuque attorney Harry H Locher appointed deputy revenue collector. Also recorded are Alexander Davidson’s death, a 40th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Gerd Kammerman, birth of daughter Joann to Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Howie, Mrs. H P Stoffel’s 83rd birthday, Meyer Slivken renting the creamery poultry house, and a seventh wedding anniversary surprise for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hearn.
Christmas scenes in Castle Grove and nearby towns include visits and dinners at multiple homes in Anamosa Monticello Cass township and Center Junction. The report notes illness fires deaths, wartime service updates and local civic happenings from late December 1943 and December 1918.
Scotch Grove residents prepare for trips to California while George Hinrichs moves to Norfolk Virginia for work. Gertrude Sears visits Chicago relatives as Paul Paulsen Lee Streets and Alva Streeper ship cattle from Onslow. Erratic fragments mention holiday guests and a Christmastime note.
Instructions advise using or reprocessing frozen canned foods quickly after frost to prevent spoilage. Freezing can damage seals and allow bacteria entry. partially frozen contents may still be safe if seals hold. Recan and process as if fresh, using appropriate boiling water bath timing once water returns to a boil.
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