Community travels and visits around Stromsburg
Dana Shostrom and Jim Brant ing left last Wednesday for a ten day fishing trip in Walker Minnesota. Several local families hosted visitors including the Carlson and Larson groups in Stromsburg and Lincoln. Bruce Austin and family from Pittsburg joined Stromsburg residents for a dinner with J. E. Carlson. Alex Youngquist family from Mt Vernon Washington visited Falks. Newcomers from Osceola and Morrills returned after visits. Clair McCormicks returned from a monthlong coast trip including Yellowstone Portland and Los Angeles visiting relatives.
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Stromsburg
Dana Shostrom
Jim Branting
Walker
Minnesota
Viv
Alvert Carlson
Daghter
Betty
Charles Larson
Henry Lind
Polk
Bruce Austin
Pittsburg
Penn
J. E. Carlson
Lincoln
Alex Youngquist
Cornelia
Mt Vernon
Washington
Ellen
Tena Youngquist
John A. Falk
Chas. Newcomer
Hattie
Osceola
Thomas Eries
A. C. Morrill
R. A Walcott
North Platte
Clair McCormick
Stormsburg
West Coast
Yellowstone National Park
Portland
Oregon
J. A. McCormick
Los Angeles
Farm Sale and Local News Roundup
W D Davis will hold a farm sale of horses cattle hogs and machinery six miles northeast of Shelby on Wednesday September 24 watch for bills. Carl Williams Arborville offers a liberal reward for information leading to arrest of intruders in his house during his absence. Osceola hosted a 6 00 o clock dinner for local telephone operators in honor of bride Mrs Earl Curry. Hardville visitors Mr and Mrs Willard Lindbureg Joan and Dean Gustafson. Lena Maes twelfth birthday party hosted by Mrs Martin Baack. WCTU met in Methodist Church parlors with program Temperance and Sunday School and a county president report followed by lunch.
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W. D. Davis
Shelby
Carl Williams
Arborville
Jerry Holmes
Osceola
Earl Curry
Willard Lindbureg
Joan
Dean
R C Gustafson
Hardville
Martin Baack
Lena Mae
WCTU
Neal Doremus
T A Stevens
C J. McCoy
John Falk
Stromsburg
Corn offer to War Dept fuels defense effort
The Department of Agriculture via the Commodity Credit Corporation offers 20 million bushels of government owned corn to the War Department for industrial alcohol to aid munition production. Secretary Wickard links the move to freeing tanker space, supporting national defense and easing surplus storage as 650 million gallons of alcohol could be produced from the corn.
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Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
War Department
National Defense
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
Food For Defense
Cuba
U. S
Life in the Navy attracts young recruits with benefits
An education and career pitch highlights Navy perks such as free meals medical and dental care rent-free living and regular raises. It notes the 1938 federal purchase of canal land, historic canal travel, and Army Signal Corps experiments with two-way pigeons and falconry, plus 1940 census trends and Nebraska figures.
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Navy
U.S Navy
Georgetown
Cumberland
Maryland
Trim
Army Signal Corps
Signal Corps
Naval Academy
Annapolis of the Air
Pensacola
Complete Outfit of Clothing Free Navy Recruitment Pitch
A Navy recruitment booklet promises free clothing and military training as a path to civilian employment. It highlights sports, on board ship films, organized recreation, top quality meals, and the prestige of wearing the U S Navy uniform.
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Navy
Uncle Sam
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Carl Curtis
Nebraska Capitol
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
National Park Service
Park Service
Park Rangers
Popeye
Ee Nyndnare Inc
The
Census Bureau
Nebraska
America
United States Navy
Naval Reserve
Secretary of the Navy
U. S. Navy
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