Floating Dental Offices In Navy Open Training For Sailors
Navy recruits can take free dental technician and other medical courses at four training stations. Recruits receive regular pay while in trade school, with a value of training estimated at 1500 dollars. On ship, sick call is twice daily and medical facilities are top notch. Navy health services include ashore hospitals, ship medical departments, and the hospital ship USS Relief. Dental care is free and excellent. Apprentices in hospital corps earn starting pay of 36 dollars monthly, rising to 54 after eight months with room, board, and clothing provided.
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Navy
U. S
Salt Lake City
U S. Navy
Cal
How To Ruin A Soldier S Leave
A Fort Dix Gazette reprint mocks military leave experiences with jokes about basic training, bed making, mop duties, government living, and perceptions of officers. It highlights humor families and soldiers share during duty, echoing 1917 era attitudes and the pace of service life.
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National Guardsmen
Fort Dix
Plow Efficiency Then and Now Cuts Time Dramatically
In 1830 a man with a two horse plow toiled seven hours to clear one acre of wheat land. Today tractor drawn plows finish the same task in under an hour, highlighting a major jump in agricultural efficiency.
Mardi Gras Origin Traced to Mobile in 1831
The American Mardi Gras began in Mobile Alabama in 1831, originally to observe New Year's Day rather than Shrove Tuesday as New Orleans now celebrates. The shift to the current Mardi Gras timing developed over time with festivities adapting to broader celebrations.
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Mobile
Ala
New Orleans
Good reasons for not registering co founder tale
Burnett of Riverside California a former Champaign county resident formed a local Selective Service Board and argued he did not need to register for the draft In a reply to a query he said he enlisted in 1899 was appointed warrant officer in 1926 retired this year at Presidio of San Francisco and was born December 22 1879 The letter satisfied Mrs Harnett Franks chief clerk.
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Co. F. Burnett
Riverside
Cal
Champaign County
Selective Service Board
Burnett
Presidio of
San Francisco
Pp. S—I
Harnett Franks
Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds Guide
The text lists stamp denominations ten cents to five dollars and notes a free album with 25 cent stamps. It explains Series E bonds at 1875 and 3750 dollar amounts, Series F from 74 to 7400, and Series G from 100 to 10000, with purchase avenues and a mail order option. Also mentions a meteor impact at Meteor Crater and a Sierra Nevada gear-shift count for truck routes.
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Defense Savings
Savings and Loan Association
United States
Washington, D. C
Local Boy Promoted to Captain Rank at Camp Blanding
Lt. Robert M. Wilbur formerly of Battery E Plant City Florida promoted to captain and named adjutant on regimental staff at Camp Blanding Starks Florida He is son of Mr and Mrs J H Wilbur of Sikes ton and graduated from the U S Naval Academy Annapolis in 1931 later exchanged his naval commission for an army commission of the same rank.
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Robert M. Wilbur
Battery E
Plant City
Fla
Camp Blanding
Starks
Wilbur
J. H. Wilbur
Sikeston
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Local Scout Official Headed to Army Duty
Harold R. Nootz, Southeast Missouri Area Boy Scout official and first lieutenant in the US Army Reserve Corps, has been ordered to active duty. He will report at Jefferson Barracks for examination on August 15, then likely be stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Mrs. Nootz will stay in Sikeston until they are permanently located.
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Harold R. Nootz
Maissouri
US Army Reserve Corps
Jefferson Barracks
Fort Riley
Kan
Dexter Youth Dies After Highway 25 Crash
Dexter 18 year old Otto Whitehead Jr. died Saturday from injuries after a truck collision on Highway 25 near Dexter the night before. He was driving his father O W Whitehead’s truck and was alone in the vehicle.
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Dexter
Otto Whitehead Jr
Highway 25
Young Whitehead
O. W. Whitehead
Navy Recruiting Officer to Visit Sikeston Post Office
A U S Navy Recruiting Service representative will visit Sikeston post office at 9 a m on Thursday August 14 to interview applicants aged 17 to 31. He will contact potential recruits.
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U. S. Navy Recruiting Service
Sikeston
Strange Nature Facts From The North Pacific Coast
A candlefish provides a surprising oil source for a makeshift wick and candle. The tree fox name matches the gray fox’s tree climbing. Quail diets include 141 insect species and 120 weed seed types, with a family of quail consuming vast numbers yearly. Japanese delivery boys balance up to twenty five food trays on bicycles.
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North Pacific Coast
Jap Restaurant
When a Shark Has More Than One Brain
The note describes a shark with multiple brains, one for the nose ears eyes and skin and one for taste, suggesting enhanced sensory processing beyond a single brain.
Sikeston Boys Win At Cape Girardeau Model Plane Contest
Sikeston contestant Frank Stevens son of Mr and Mrs C J Stevens won first place in Class A for out of town entrants at the 4th annual model airplane meet sponsored by the Sikeston Herald KFVS. He flew a Wakefield Winner rubber powered plane for 2 minutes 12 seconds the longest time in four years. Charles Boyd placed second with 2 07. Other Sikeston entrants included Bob Burns James Ward and Laverne Burton.
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Frank Stevens
C. J. Stevens
Herald
Cape Girardeau
Charles Boyd
Sikeston
Paul Greer
Bill Likens
Bobby Hirsch
Jimmy Paynter
Billy Steele
Norman Williams
Cairo
Charles F Proffer
Bob Burns
James Ward
Laverne Burton
One Dollar Check Nets Eighty At Iowa Observance
A one dollar check marking the two billionth loan by farmers cooperative production credit associations sold for eighty dollars at a Newton Iowa ceremony on July 23. Genevieve Paulson hands the check to Lynn Grant as the donation to U.S.O. Paulson’s son Howard faces draft eligibility.
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Farmers’ Cooperative Production Credit Associations
Newton
Iowa
Genevieve Paulson
Martin Paulson
Grinnell
Lynn Grant
Melrose
Connecticut
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United States Navy
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