Push for State Takeover of Mink Creek Road Link
Article urges the Idaho state highway department to assume responsibility for the Mink Creek to Paris route across Bannock Franklin and Bear Lake counties. It argues state control would accelerate postwar funding and pave an oiled road from Mink Creek to Preston, shortening travel between Mink Creek and Bear Lake valleys by over 50 percent.
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Preston
Strawberry Summit
Mink Creek
Paris
Idaho
Bear Lake Valley
Bannock County
Franklin
Bear Lake
State Highway Department
Mechanization Aids Beet Harvest in Franklin County
This week opens a new beet harvest season in Franklin county with extensive mechanization. Beet toppers and loaders operate, boosting efficiency. Farmers are urged to inspect equipment and consider adopting the new methods for better yields.
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Franklin County
Mechanization Key To Sugar Beet Industry Recovery
The speaker argues postwar mechanization will decide the sugar beet industry's future. He claims machines will offset cheap native labor in cane sugar areas and stresses joining the mechanization drive to protect essential agricultural industries.
War Effort Committee Urges Caution After Germany Falls
Under Sterling E. Graham the Cleveland War Efforts Committee of the Cleve Advertising club joins civic and labor leaders in urging restraint and gratitude rather than mass celebrations in downtown streets. The plan, endorsed by Cleveland leaders and sent to mayors nationwide, uses a baseball metaphor to stress perseverance until Japan is defeated.
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Sterling E. Graham
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland Ohio
Cleve Advertising Club
Germany
Cleveland
Europe
Rural Grange Polls Favor Dewey In Iowa And West
A Iowa Grange poll shows farmers favor Dewey by 66 2 3 percent, stronger than labor polls that favored Roosevelt. Oregon polls mirror the Dewey trend, and a national survey by the American Press Association finds rural voters at 53 to 47 in favor of Dewey. This marks first rural lean against the administration since 1932, creating doubt on Roosevelt’s bid for a fourth term.
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Iowa
National Grange
Grange
Dewey
Roosevelt
Oregon
America
American Press Association
Gallup
Community Notes From Time October 12 1916 Preston
Local updates report resignations at Utah Implement Vehicle Co and a horse incident involving Charlie Bodily. Paralyzed Dayton resident P Jones improves with Dr Milo Wheeler attendance. County squash grower Howard L Thomas ships about thirteen acres of squash for Thanksgiving. New homes rise countywide with several 4 6 room bungalows listed. Walter Bosworth marries Logan belle Anna Purser in Hyde Park. Hazel Garner leaves for a mission to the East. Idaho braces for harsh winter per Bannock Indians. Lucille P Perkins heads to Pioche Nevada to join Hermann Perkins mining. Orge Denzil Petterberg returns from Chicago with livestock for World Series viewing.
Humorous Army Tales and Everyday Woes From Wartime Life
A string of light anecdotes and quips from military life and homefront scenes. Jokes touch on pranks screen doors and sleeves, recruit humor, romance, and diary-like vignettes, ending with a tourist’s cheerful travel moment.
Witty Soldier Jokes and Misreads from a Humble Page
A collection of light wartime humor snippets featuring a deaf trio heading to London misnaming places and days, a corporal and sergeant exchange on liars and size, a paratrooper on furlough admitting zero jumps, away from home foot locker mishaps, and a barefoot shopper trading coupons for shoes.
Disabled War Veteran Consultant Opens Boise Office
Idaho veterans gain a new statewide service with Jack B George, veteran service officer, offering personal or letter consultations on disability and dependent benefits. He sits at the Veterans Hospital Boise, citing free aid through a Congressional chartered D A V as the bargaining agent. He vows to help all veterans including World War II and World War I survivors, with a mission to cut red tape and ease claims. He arrives with wife and young son to start the effort.
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Idaho
Jack B George
Veterans’ Hospital
Boise
Mr. George
United States
France
George
Scotch Tape Shipment At Sale In The Citizen
A large shipment of Scotch tape in wide rolls arrives for use in office dispensers. The sale price matches the market rate of office supply firms nationwide at The Citizen.
Harvest Vacation Students Return To Fields For War Bonds
With school ending Friday, students begin a harvest vacation to October 30. High school boys and many girls work in potatoes beets and grain while faculty join in. In past years earnings funded war bonds and likely students will invest similarly this year.
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Preston Citizen
Eostor
William MacKnight Belva Hart
County of
Idaho Stath Editorial Association
Ibelous
Gem Valley Dairymen’s Co-op
Ass'n
Thatcher, Idaho
George F. Fair
Utah Implement Vehicle Company
Charlie
P. Jones
Dayton
Milo Wheeler
Lewiston
Utah
Howard L. Thomas
Riverdale
John C. Christensen
John C. Greaves
W R. Fisher
Oxford
Wm. F Klippert
First Ward
Mahonri Larsen
James H Mooseman
Fourth Ward
Alvin Harris
Walter Bosworth
James Bosworth
Hyde Park
Anna Purser
Logan
Hazel Garner
Jim Bridger
Hans Olsen
Logan Hospital
Lucille P. Perkins
Nevada
Hermann Perkins
Pioche
Mr. Perkins
Denzil Petterberg
Chicago
Denzil
D. L. Hawley
Preston, Idaho
Preston Pranks
Howdy, Folesi
PFC
Physical Culture
Draft Board
Lions
Lefty
Willie
Farmer Hawkins
Dayton, Idaho
London
Wembly
Henry Kaiser
Sir Launchalot
Menges
Medicanlo
Ar Eap
Mnet
McCune ‘Motor ‘Pas
Eere
Wee
Sores
Preston Lumber Co
Fez
Pocatello Factory
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