Illinois Declares National Day and War Effort Pages
Governor proclaims Sunday as Illinois National Day with a patriotic Soldier Field pageant. Illinois reports the healthiest big state infant mortality rate, new civil service exams for laboratory and maternity roles, a 70 percent drop in labor disputes, state highway architecure shift, and the Illinois Civilian Blood Bank surpassing four thousand donations in Champaign Peoria Kane and Rock Island counties.
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Illinois
Downstate
Chicago
Soldier Field
Union
Conneticut
Utah
State Civil Service Commission
Springfield
Howard J. Shaughnessy
Department of Public Health
U. S. Employment Services
Francis B. Murphy
State Department of Labor
Elwood
Dwight H. Green
Champaign
Peoria
Kane
Rock Island
Man’s Love Feud Over Ten Mile Radius Sparks Fatherly Alarm
A quip from a dialogue highlights a girl’s suitor facing a protective father. The line jests that the father disapproves of the romance on any ground within ten miles of his home, signaling communal tension around a local relationship.
Plan Big Salvage Campaign to Gather Scrap Metal
Carroll county committees plan an intensive scrap metal drive climaxed by Junk Rally days on Sept 12 with local committees and a War Production Board publicity push. Ralph Fahrney notes hundreds of tons collected and 125 tons of scrap rubber. George A. Schleming chairs Chadwick area.
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Carroll County
War Production Board
Mt. Carroll
Chadwick
George A. Schleming
Ralph Fahrney
County Salvage
Fahrney
Bernard's Silent Defiance inFather Son Strife
A neighbor observes Bernard being beaten by his father and notes the boy shows no outward pain. Bernard flatly answers that crying is useless because the old man is deaf, illustrating a grim family dynamic.
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Bernard
Misplaced Wits and Resuscitation Gaffe At Night
A Red Cross trained matron tending a man on a dark street after a meeting misreads the scene. The man, waking, complains of laughter as she applies resuscitation. He explains he is holding a lantern for someone in a manhole while quips about vicar deliveries and laundry emerge.
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Red Cross
Poultry Disease Controls Could Halve Mortalities
Secretary Wickard cites to War Production Board a plan to divert steel to dehydration plants, boosting egg drying capacity to over 500 million pounds yearly. Veterinarians warn mortality from crowding and disease cuts egg output. improving housing, feeding, and breeding could greatly raise hen longevity and production. They estimate annual bird losses at about 150 million dollars, with half the disease- and mortality-related losses avoidable in a year through proven controls.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
War Production Board
U. S
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State Division
Higways
Division of Architecture and Engineering
Department of Public Works and Buildings
G. H. Thompson Fulton
Walter Electric Shop
Tri-City
Milledgeville
Derful
Anama
Brown
Wickard
Middle West
Jack
Joe
Willie
Considine’s
Fulton
Lincoln Way
L. B. Hussey, M. D
Savanna
Greison Bldg
Main St
Telephone Black 415
Jj. M. Fay and Son
Ill
Supolio
Cottoline
PEARL
Smith Bros
HEINZ
Jemima
Gress
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