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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1945
Page
10
A Chicago drug store chain informs readers that wartime labor shortages and wage ceilings have reduced service levels. The ad asks customers for understanding and hints at efforts to improve despite constraints.
A humorous dialogue fragment describes a waitress serving coffee and toast then orange juice to a patron. The customer asks if she is married and the waiter jokes about breakfast at home rather than etiquette. The text illustrates a stray example of conversational tone.
After two years separation Pfe. Eugene C. Shiffer son of Mrs Alice Shiffer 404 Davison St and member of the 95th Army infantry met his lifelong buddy Pvt Edward L Carlson son of Mr and Mrs O E Carlson 304 Peale St attached to the 720th Railway Operators battalion in Germany. Shiffer entered service June 1943 and Carlson in May 1943. Both are former Spectator carriers.
Cheville Jr leads sessions in Silver Cross hospital nurses' home classrooms. The next Red Cross corps meeting is Thursday June 14 at 6 30 p m at Red Cross headquarters with a pot luck supper. Joliet Lockport and New Lenox canteen units help fund drive by serving luncheons and dinners. Units four and five served dinner and supper for Army personnel June 2 at First Lutheran church parlor. Hospital Superintendent Stuart Hummel will speak June 19 at 1 p m with dessert and coffee by Unit 2.
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