Wasco Society Hosts Surprise Birthday Gathering
A Wasco ranch lawn hosted a social afternoon for H G Javette gift to vice president age camp Mrs Louis Homfeld wife of St Paul Minnesota. Blue pink decor set the scene. Thirty friends attended with gifts from those unable to come. Refreshments of cake ice cream and punch were served by the hostess Mrs Homnfeld with the honoree her mother Mrs Marion Stockton and Miss Jean Burns visiting from Shafter.
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Brysons
Wasco
Homnfeld
Marion Stockton
Jean Burns
Shafter
Women collect costume jewelry for troops in the South Pacific
The Business and Professional Women's Club led by Mrs. George Gaede and Mrs. Ralph Janzen begins a collection of costume jewelry and trinkets to send to servicemen in the South Pacific and North Africa. Natives reportedly value the baubles for barter and friendship, not money. Containers are in Sam Lachenmaier offices and at Dial Cleaners, with pickup arranged by club members if needed.
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George Gaede
Ralph Janzen
South Pacific
North Africa
Sam Lachenmaier
Dial Cleaners
Mystery of a late-night call and a murder arrest
A story unfolds as Element of Time by Stanley Cordell Esley shows Wesley Holmes delayed by a train and a phone. He reunites with Prue at the Buckingham hotel only to be arrested for Tony Metcalf's murder after a diary links the trio.
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Esley
Ashville Junction
Prue
Wesley
Millbanks
Buckingham
Tony Metcalf
Tony
Pleasant Street
Tomy
Wes
Wesley Holmes
Holmes
Rose
Darling
Captain Bullard
Metcalf
Miss Fuller
Bullard
Certificate of fictitious name and court summons record
Legal notice fragment covering a California Kern county fictitious business name certificate with names Handel and Wilson dated 1943, plus an original summons in the Kern Superior Court case Minnie Lucille Williams vs Harwood N Williams. Contains notary seal, dates, and court clerk references.
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California
Kern
Ate
Munzer Si
Sheke Core P. Wilson
Rt. 1
Kern County
Handel
F. W. Handel
H. P. Wilson
Superior Court
Ieee State OF
Californi
County OF
State of California
Kendall & Howell
A. Peter Channeson
Minnie Lucille Williams
Harwood N. Williams
State of
Whitman-WNN Features Impassioned Homefront Advice
The column by Triena urges efficient maintenance of worn or broken household items as wartime priority. It stresses caring for what you have and prioritizing government needs, urging homeowners to stretch resources and keep essentials running.
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Triena
Dehydration and Canning Advice for Vegetables in California
Dorothy Wilkinson, home demonstration agent, suggests drying surplus vegetables using a dehydrator, while a revised Home Canning circular from Berkeley outlines acid-brine processing and boiling water bath methods. Boil 10 minutes before use. spinach and corn require 20 minutes. California had 671,200 wage earners in manufacturing in 1942 and leads in war contract value, with Michigan second.
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California
Dorothy Wilkinson
Miss Wilkinson
University Press
Berkeley
Naval officer Bill McClain hospitalized for shell shock
Bill McClain, former captain on Seyuke and South Pacific service, is in the Naval Hospital undergoing treatments for shell shock. He is currently working at a San Francisco war plant. Mr and Mrs Earl Johnson of the Johnson Neuman Department Store recently visited. The San Francisco Bay depth data show central parts reach 400 to 140 feet and 357 feet in the Golden Gate channel.
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Eeite Tempe Oe
Seyuke Ae South Pacific
Naval Hoshisis
McClain
San Francisco
Earl Johnson
Johnson-Neuman Department Store
San Francisco Bay
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Comealea Ten
Fiala
Sam
Doolittle
Ohio
Tokio
Tojo
Rion
U. S. Treasury
Laurel & Hardy Wardens
McDonald Carey
Betty Rhodes
Stanley Cordell
J. C. Penner
United States
Lvant
San Franscisco
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Sheertisers
R. J. Veon
Roger B. Whitman
WNN
Michigan
Bill McClain
Naval Hospital
Othes
THE
Pacific Teleprome and Telegraph Company
20Th St. Biorsfield
Monolith
Monolith Portland Cement CO
Post Office
W. C. Grose
Prop
OPA
Charter Mercantile Co
Federated Stores
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