Community Notes Highlight Local Visits and Obscure News
Janet Merrill visits Rockford this week with Joyce Marshall while Mrs Vernon McGinty and family host visits in Chadwick. Harry McGinty returns from Portland after a family gathering. multiple Chicago visitors arrive for weekends. A drowning near Silvis claims Wilmont Hays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet Merrill
Rockford
Joyce Marshall
Vernon McGinty
Chadwick
Chas. McGinty
Harry McGinty
Portland
Ore
Mary Jane McGinty
N. B. Lewis
Betty Miller
River Forest
Harry
Dora Doty
Chicago
McLane
Merle Atherton
Goose Lake
Lester Vance
Robert
Meredith Bailey
Savanna
Ford Grimm
Irene Beck
Will
Joseph Koenig
LeRoy Kilmas
C. Terry
Rock Falls
William Reader
Margaret Smith
Town and Farm in Wartime
Wartime loans aid veterans to lease or buy land and obtain equipment for farming. Food ration allotments expand to farms and seasonal workers, with 60 day eligibility and points rules. War expenditures rise in 1944, highway repair programs planned, and more items including electric irons and used box waste addressed by federal agencies. Local shortages, wage records on farms, nurse recruitment for VA hospitals, and a War Manpower drive are noted alongside a wartime joke and a short cartoon dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FCA Loone
Department of Agriculture
Federal Security Administration
Office of Price Administration
WPB
War Food Administration
WFA
OPA
Tle
Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture Scientiet
USDA
United States
Local visits and family gatherings noted in LeRoy and area
Mrs Pauline Vreeland and Marion of LeRoy visited with her brother Eugene Murray and family. The Schick home hosted Hiram and Frances Green and Donald Green of Argo and Otto Switzer. Stainbrook family reunion attendees traveled from Brandon Iowa. Clinton guests Hazel Witt and Harry Turner with Joyce and Richard visited the Witt home. Fulton visitors Andrew Hook joined John Cooper. George Clay and grandson visited from Savanna with Ida Frederick. Darlene Shoemaker stays with the Sperry household in Morrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hileen Fulrath
Clinton
Markie Beck
George Lanning
Marion
Iowa
Gerald Hartman
Mt. Carroll
Hartman
Orrin Shoemaker
Waterloo
Harry Shoemaker
Wilmont Hays
Moline
Silvis
Hays
Riverview
Frank Holman, Jr
Joan
Billy Johnson
Ida Frederick
Jessie Green
Luther Geisinger
Pauline Vreeland
LeRoy
Eugene Murray
Hiram Green
Earl Green
Frances
Donald
Argo
Otto Switzer
Lewis Schick
Bert Stainbrook
Stainbrook
Brandon
Hazel Witt
Harry Turner
Joyce
Richard
Harold Witt
Andrew Hook
Fulton
John Cooper
George Clay
Savanna
Darlene Shoemaker
Lee Sperry
Morrison
Limeade and Lime Recipes From Florida Spotlight
Florida seedless limes arrive in summer market as a national favorite. The feature highlights lime scented drinks and dishes, with recipes for limeade lime sherbet lime sauce lime and peach cobbler plus a lime season forecast and nutritional notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Dutch East Indies
Novice Boxer Refuses Help Chooses Second
A beginner in boxing faces a heavy opponent in the ring and insists on going second after a moment of doubt. He asks about his helper and replies he will go second himself, seeking relief from the looming challenge.
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Royal Blue Stores
Lipton’s Tea
R. B
R. B. Mac
Kellogg’s
Crisco
Post's
Sunshine Graham
Krispys
Sunshine
LINCO
JUNCO
Oakite
Frizz
LUX Soap
Kraft
Bats
Woodbury’s
Saniflush
Thomson News
Nelda Williams
Allen’s Tea Room
Ben Stage
Stevie Kemmer
Fred Miller
Earl Orcutt
Orella Bennett
Raymond L. Porter
G. H. Thompson
J. C. Snyder
Thelma
Fred Schick
Ruth Kerr
Prett
Pittsburgh
Fulton Paint & Paper Store
al Faber
ILL
War Production Board
U. S
Office of War Information
Public Roads Administration
National Interregional Highway Committee
Congress
Marvin Jones
Veterans Administration
General Medical
Tuberculosis
Nero Psychiatric
Washington
D. C
Army
Navy
War Manpower Commission
Sarge
Fulton Shoe Store
Fulton, Il
Hart, Schaffner & Marx Kuppenheimer
Hickey Freeman
Manhattan and
ARROW
Dobbs and
Stetsen
Oshkosh
Boy’s
Kaynee
Martin Morris Co
St. Ave
Clinton, Iowa
George Washington
Swett’s Cafe
Thomson, Illinois
FOX
Housenga & Bronkema
Duane
Chicago Sunday Tribune
Orphan Annie
Moon Mullins
Dick Tracy
Winnie Winkle
Gasoline Alley
Terry and the Pirates
Brenda Starr
Lew Loyal
Graphic
America
Pictorial News Review
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