Page 1 of Aug 31 1943 Issue of Mount Pleasant News in Mount Pleasant, Iowa

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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 31, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar ll - Through October 31 Gasoline No. 7 Expires Sept. 21 Fuel OII 5 - - Until Sept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 VAl,in RATION STAMP9 R, S. T Blue SVmps expire Sept. 20 T.U.V.W Red Stamps expire Aug. 31 X, Y, red, stams expire Oft. 2 Shoe Stamp 1H expires Ort. 31 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA They’ll Do It Every TimeRetail Stores Now Open ThursdaysRail Wreck Toll Is 27Threat Smolensk by Baul Mallon 3s** f — pccic f Vn CIVILIAN DEFENSE CALLED A BLACKOUT* GET ON YOUR POST- ? quick J rn (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Pud or In Part Strictly Prohibited )_ Most Harbor Shops, Hank and Offices Will Close Rescue Workers Continue Search In New York Red Army Only 45 Miles From Important Center With the beginning of the fall season, ’he Mt. Pleasant retail stores which have been closing on Thursday aft'moons dur.ng the summer, will Dr open all day six days a week. Most of the barber shops, the bank and the offices of pi I e >i' ® a1 n In. other than lawyers, will continue the Thursday closing. While most of the merchants feel that the Thursday afternoon closing was a satisfactory arrangemen* during the summer, they had voted to try it for the summer months only Moscow’. Russia —(INS) -Smolensk, key Nazi defense bastion for much of the enemy's crumbling central front, came under direct threat tod y when red army legions stormed into strategic Yelnya only 45 miles southeast of that big rail and manufacturing center. Capture of Yelnya which lies on the railroad leading to Smolensk was announced in a special order of the day is. ued by premier Joseph Stalin. Its fall came only 24 hours after other Red divisions storming westward along the northern shore of the Sea of Azov occupied Taganrog enemy anchor point Today the Russians moved ahead all along the 4 )0 mile Ukrainian battlefront even as units to tho north slammed suddenly into Nazi linesBoard To Review Papers of Fathers Some Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads May He In 1-A After Tonight fwANX TO W. COE, STRATPOQD, CONN Moscow. Russia (INS)—Premier Jo soph Stalin announced in a special or der of the day today that the So vie troops have entered the northern Uk raine.Prowler Causes Teachers In A Disturbance Rural SchoolsOrganize For Bond Drive Individual Suggested Quotas Will Be Used First Time MORE MEN IN CLASS 1-A V. M. Boshart New PCA Assistant Receives Card From Brother, A Prisoner

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