Sergeant Augustine Kirby Home From Africa on Furlough
Sergeant Augustine Kirby of the 34th Division Fifth Army arrived Friday from Schick hospital Clinton to spend a seven day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs John Kirby Hopkinton. He was wounded in Africa on November 6 during duty before Italy breaking skull dislocated shoulder knee and broken left leg above the ankle. He earlier served at Fort Bragg and various U.S. camps after enlisting April 27 1941. He is expected to return to Schick hospital for further surgery.
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Hopkinton
Augustine Kirby
Schick Hospital
Clinton
John Kirby
Kirby
34Th Division
Fifth Army
Armed Forces
Fort Bragg
North Carolina
Italy
Africa
Moore General Hospital
Swannanoa
N.C
Buck Creek Consolidated School
Roosevelt Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Earl Zumbach
Gene Bacon
Maeda Reed
Helen Offerman
Marie Wilson
Marie
Pvt
Ray Juilfs
England
Dar- Tene Hamer Juilfs
Anamosa
Martin Slavin
Marian Herrington
Harrisburg
Mary Greiser
West Virginia
Emil Paulsen
John Petersen
Olin
Paul Ketchem
Leon Carpenter
Iowa City
University Hospital
Ed Hodoval
Alva Streeper
Sam McCarty
Kansas City
Indianapolis
George Sears
Eichhorn
Davenport
Wartime Stamp Validity Schedule Recap
Ration reminders list food and fuel stamps with validity dates. Meats fats red stamps A8 to K8 and processed foods blue stamps through Q8 are valid indefinitely. Sugar stamps 30 31 cover five pounds of sugar. stamp 40 covers five pounds for canning sugar through February next year. Gasoline A-11 valid through June 21 outside East Coast. fuel oil periods 4 and 5 valid through August 31. Airplane stamps 1 2 for shoes valid indefinitely.
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East Coast
Uniformed Workers Share in Factories Report
Among 7 750 000 workers in factories about 65 percent or 5 037 500 wear uniforms. The estimate excludes food packing chemical and other non factory industries.
Onslow School Banquet Celebrates Junior Senior Classes
Onslow High School hosted a navy themed junior-senior banquet with blue and silver decor a ship stage setting and a plank entrance Students wore navy caps and seniors won class colors American beauty roses The program featured a toastmaster welcome responses songs and various toasts after the event the groups attended a show in Maquoketa 86 Year Old Mrs Agnes Fletcher Marks Birthday
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Onslow
Raymond Taylor
Donald Derga
Marvin Snyder
Paul Wilcox
LeRoy Petersen
Street cleaners' wages rise in major cities
Sanitation workers in most large cities earn 60 cents or more per hour, with four cities paying 90 cents or higher. The American Public Works Association notes these wages are substantial increases over typical pay levels in 1940 and 1941.
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American Public Works Association
Brazil Promotes Guaxima Raxa Fiber for War Needs
Brazil offers the Aber Guaxima Rova or Aramina as a wartime fiber. Reported to be over a yard long, flexible and strong, nearly white and silky when dry, good for rope twine and sacking. Claim cites higher tensile strength than jute. Thrives in damp coastal soil and across much of the republic.
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Brazil
Sao Paulo
Republic
Russia Dominated Prewar Manganese Production World Share
Historical data show Russia accounted for well over two thirds of global manganese output before World War II. Major producers shifted balance as markets and ore sources evolved, with Russian supply shaping early 20th century metal industries and strategic mineral access.
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Russia
Bee Food Needs For Winter Stores In Hives
Bees require about twelve times their weight in sustenance annually similar to humans. A 150 to 175 pound man eats roughly a ton yearly. A ten pound colony stores around 60 pounds of honey and four or five combs of pollen for winter.
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F. E. Allen
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Fairest Lord
Jesus
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Welcome, Minn
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Ul State Center
William and Mary’s College
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Ray Orcutt
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Joe Swanson
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Manchester
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Charles Reggentine
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Missionary Society
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Tenn
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Fred Martens
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St. Luke’s Hospital
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Potosi Brewing Company
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