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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1945
Page
5
A traveling circus promises a lavish program with aerial performers and clowns. The R C Montgomery show features a large menagerie and two daily performances at 2 and 8 pm, with doors opening at 1 and 7 pm, offering a showcase of daring feats and beauty highlights in a grand tent.
Fragmentary ad style text features sprays, heaters and pest control products. Mentions Caney and farm and wood related brands. Content is garbled with misread terms and incomplete phrases.
Jubilant celebrations spread across the United States as V J day rumors circulated. President Truman designated November 15 and 16 as holiday periods for federal workers, while local mail service halted for the first time in town history as a possible VJ day neared.
Myrtle Grange members and friends gathered at Norway Grove last Sunday for a picnic and pot luck dinner. Attendees toured, traded fancy work patterns, and discussed crops, politics, and war before a softball game between local men and women on a nearby field.
A stag party scene is described at a cabin seven miles northeast where Joest and other men attended a Tuesday evening gathering hosted by a local host. The readable fragments sketch a male social event in a rural Nest area.
The report lists issued gear and quotas for fall sewing and hospital supplies including 60 light-weight bathrobes 586 heavy bathrobes 206 bed pan covers 100 Mannel bed necks 560 bedside bags 100 cushion covers 100 hot water bottle covers 500 unfilled kit bags 100 fracture pillow covers 290 pairs of pa jamas 800 pairs of scuffs. It notes Crees rooms in the Security bank bus and cites thousands of returning hospital cases after war injuries.
Remodeling plans proposed for the Henry Schroeder Furniture store include a new roof and three story layout with a top warehouse level and rear elevator. a work room will gain space though material shortages push the schedule. Napa visitors Mr and Mrs Meket McConnell and son Dale, formerly from Bridge, are noted. Frank Lated reports a large cougar sighting and a partially eaten elk carcass nearby.
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