This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
12
The piece surveys how soldiers sailors and marines spent Christmas last year from Iceland to Guadalcanal noting an unusual celebration but the troops making the best of it.
The Rotary club annually organized Christmas chorus under the direction of a named conductor who led the Vesper Service on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
Washington reports the House passed the first supplemental appropriation act for 1945 to sustain farm labor funding through December 31 1945 with a projected additional 10 million dollars to support the war food administration for the 1945 crop. The measure addresses labor shortages as 30 000 Mexican nationals have worked in sugar beet and potato harvests.
A Chicago area family, the Hoogewonings, lost their home and unborn child in a December fire. A Christmas committee raised 3000 dollars and neighbors donated a new ten acre home with hens, a deed, and a fresh start for the couple and their two remaining children.
A frost bitten forest tale recounts Martin Luther felling a small tree to bring home for Christmas. A father watches as candles glint on ice and the boy asks why, while the tree glows in the parlor and the night air shines with melting diamonds.
Dairying wheat and beets listed as million dollar crops with 940000 bushels of wheat on 30370 acres valued at 1175000. Total 1944 crops in the county exceed 6 million including sugar beets and other produce plus livestock and poultry outputs.
Funeral services for Carl J Nelson 71 died Monday after a lingering illness were held in Weston ward chapel with Bishop W Maurice Tingey conducting. The service featured choir songs and solos, remarks by local leaders, and a grave in Weston cemetery. Nelson was uncle to Dean Jensen and survived by six siblings and several relatives. Funeral services were also held earlier at the Deseret Mortuary with burial in Salt Lake City.
Lorenzo Jensen 70, owner of Rexburg Bond & Storage Co., Rexburg, died in a Salt Lake City hospital of coronary occlusion. Born June 14, 1874 in Weston, he lived there until 30 years ago, joined LDS church, served a 1905 mission, and served in the Rexburg 4th ward bishopric and Idaho state legislature. Survivors include widow Elvira Hoopes Jensen of Rexburg, three sons Ralph Oakland Rawlin Ogden, Shirley Boise, four daughters Sylvia Williams Hazel Ebersole Lester Opal Smith LA, and others.
Word has reached Dr and Mrs M Q Merrill that their daughter Captain Maxine Merrill has New Guinea as her new post of duty. After arriving in the Pacific she was briefly stationed in the Netherlands East Indies and is now working with the engineers in New Guinea.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.