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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
1
The June 12 launch of the fifth war loan drive urges investment in $75 bonds returning $100 in ten years. It emphasizes bonds fund food, arms, planes, medicine, and care for servicemen and families, highlighting sacrifice and national heritage to preserve the nation.
Monticello eyes a postwar park with a municipal swimming pool funded by a $30,000 citizen drive. The council and the school board form joint committees to plan the pool and park with football fields and parking, aiming for rapid construction when materials and steel are available.
Reading and Writing by E Seaver R McKown surveys James Norman Hall Lost Island a tale of a tiny South Pacific atoll and its doomed island idyll. The piece also highlights Lincoln's Daughters of Mercy Mother Bickerdyke’s unauthorized demolition in 1868 and her bold defiance of military authority.
A compilation of notes from editors across Mason City Globe Gazette and others commenting on wartime policy and leaders. The clippings quote views on Washington authority, postwar plans, and Adolf Hitler’s actions with pointed satire and sharp critique.
The Iowa Poll shows Iowans judge neutrals individually by their conduct toward the Axis. Switzerland is rated best, while Argentina and Spain are near the bottom. Portugal elicits mostly no opinion. Respondents favor treating neutrals by circumstances rather than as enemies or friends.
Hogs bring small cash after tax with a 630 pound sale and $14.17 tax. Monticello tops 48 Class B schools in a state brain derby. students earn high marks in history geometry biology and English. Local deaths births and graduations noted along with a 60th church anniversary and a new dental x ray in town. Soldiers return from France and summer education continues at teachers college. Lightning burns a barn, abstracts record 478 entries for a 104 acre farm valued at $40,000.
State fire marshals report smoking as by far the worst single cause of fires in 1941. The findings summarize the year’s fire statistics and highlight smoking as the leading contributor to destructive blazes.
Multiple local churches list weekly worship times Sunday school and services. Bee Sacred Heart announces Masses and confessions. Presbyterian and Lutheran churches report services and youth activities. Congregational and Methodist note special programs and no services next Sunday. Peniel Presbyterian advertises a Children's Day program and an evening picnic with biblical films.
A fragment describes shredded cabbage mixed with about two percent salt and left to ferment, noting simple preparation terms without additional steps or ingredients.
Practical guidance on cleaning and preserving food in the refrigerator. Notes on limited new mechanical refrigerators, civilian ice box program, and care to extend appliance life. Includes storage rules for meat eggs dairy vegetables and the pasteurizing temp for ice cream, and a brief history of petroleum industry milestones starting with E. L. Drake in 1859.
Samuel Smiles emphasizes self help through deliberate personal effort. The quote urges reliance on one’s own work while drawing inspiration from others.
Money for Tools Man outlines expenditures on equipment across sectors. It notes costs from 2,500 dollars per worker in the leather industry to 25,000 dollars in railroads and steel, indicating varying capital needs for tool and machine use.
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