Missouri State Guard Weeks Urge Enlistment Drive
Captain Loomis Mayfield leads Company D of the Missouri State Guard in Sikeston as the state proclaims Missouri State Guard Weeks from July 23 to August 5 1944. Gov Forrest C Donnell and Mayor G W Presnell back a statewide recruitment push amid interstate war needs.
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Loomis Mayfield
Missouri State Guard
Forrest C Donnell
Missouri
G. W. H. Presnell
Sikeston
National Guard
Highway 61
Donner
Missouri, State Guard
Clifford W. Gaylord
U. S. Army
State Guard
Missouri National
Guard
St. Louis
Kansas City
Joplin
Columbia
Kennett
State of Missouri
Jefferson
Ice Cream Output to Be Decreased After August 1
The War Food Administration announced that after August 1 ice cream production will be cut to 65 percent of the milk solids used in the same months of 1942, down from 75 percent in the last three months. The product will be less rich than in May to July. Mrs. M. C. Hudson was removed yesterday from Sikeston General Hospital to her home in Morehouse.
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War Food Administration
M. C. Hudson
Taylor Ambulance
Sikeston General Hospital
Morehouse
Japs Won't Surrender Says Lilbourn Capt. Twitty News
Capt Lynn Twitty formerly Lilbourn public schools superintendent and now Marine Corps Reserve officer visited Sikeston and Cape Girardeau area servicemen in the Pacific. He spoke of leaflets urging Japanese surrender which he says have little effect, noting bombs and Saipan progress as the war nears end. Twitty’s brother Kenneth is missing in action over New Guinea, another brother Wendell serves with the Seabees, and Twitty family ties are noted with Lilbourn and Sikeston communities.
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Lynn Twitty
Marine Corps Reserve
Lilbourn
Ignsign
A. F. Lindsay Jr
A. F. Lindsay
Sikeston
Pacific War
Twitty
W. W. Parker Jr
W. W. Parker
Cape Girardeau
Pacific
Lieut. Parker
Saipan
Hawaii
Kenneth Twitty
New Guinea
Wendell Twitty
South Pacific
J. D. Twitty
Marietta Twitty
Bank of Sikeston
Oil heater flare up prompts fire department run
An oil heater flare when at Wm Woehlecke's Newstreet residence during last night's electrical storm caused a fire call. No damage reported. The fire department responded to Sunset Addition Tuesday to a restaurant owned by Tom Davis that was totally destroyed by fire. flames reached proportions making saving the building and contents impossible.
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Wm. Woehlecke
Newstreet
Tom Davis
Postwar chocolate bar promises nonmelt pocket use
After the war, tropical chocolate bars that melt at 120 degrees will hit civilian markets in peacetime across the South and summer North. Made from chocolate skim milk cocoa flat oat flour with flavoring and vitamins, the bars must be molded rather than poured. Despite sugar rationing, 1943 candy production reached 2.56 billion pounds, a record high.
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Army
Miner news from the Merry Extension Club meeting
The Miner Merry Extension Club met at Mrs. Paul Slinkerd's home on Thursday afternoon. Scout Troop 143 boys are at Camp Lewallen this week under Scoutmaster Marshall McGill. Cub Scouts were hosted by den mothers Mrs. Matthews and Mrs. McGill at Mrs. Matthews' home with Dr. Connally, a Baptist missionary to China, teaching a Chinese school for the boys. Guests included Rev. and Mrs. Mihffeld and Mrs. Emma Watts and Mrs. Mary Ann Engram from Sikeston.
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Miner Merry Extension Club
Paul Slinkerd
Scout Troop
Miner
Camp Lewallen
Marshall McGill
Ben Matthews
Frank Connally
China
Wm. Mihffeld
Emma Watts
Mary Ann Engram
Sikeston
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J. H. Yount Jr
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North Wings
Choicle Farm
Mack
Bain
S B Hardwick Real Estate Agency
Chisse Butlers
Phon
Sal Seroom
Bath
Chris 4 Butlers
V. Ward
Stallcup
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Chas. H. Butlers
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Fredericktown
Hirnest Carpenter
Route 1
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The
Sikeston Herald
Vernon Street
Cape Girardeau, Mo
General Avery
Bfarmall
John Deere
Blodgett
Selmer Campbell
Paved Street
Caleb Smith
East
Malone Avenue
W. Ward
Kingsinghway
J. T Self
Riales Land Co
Russell Erials Goff
Blytheville
Arkansas
Sikeston Auction Co
Uction Co
R. I. Duncan
Sikeston, Mo
Johnson Jewelry Shop
Malone Ave
Ranney St. Sikeston
C. B. Turner
Scott Street
Scott Phone
AC. Penney CO
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Miner News
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Perea Vermont
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Lorts
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