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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
6
A string of jokes depicts husbands and wives in married life with quips about money, confidence, furniture, and chores. The bits feature light stereotypes and humor around cooking, laundry, aging, and small domestic frictions, ending with a joke about toothpaste and gunpowder.
A wartime appeal urges readers to buy an extra 100 dollar War Bond to back GI Joe and aid the fight against Japan. It emphasizes moral duty, explains bonds empower troops, and positions the purchase as a sign of national resolve during the war effort.
A tobacco-chewer sees a store window sign reading Women’s Exchange and enters. He asks if it is the exchange and jokes he might do business but keeps Sal after a pause. The scene contrasts the old joke with a quiet punchline about public speaking.
Sunday service across Christian Science churches focuses on Christ Jesus with Golden Text from Isaiah and cited Bible verses. The Lesson Sermon includes II Peter passages about prophecy and the Bible as a light, plus quotes from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy describing Jesus as the highest human concept of the perfect man and inseparable from Christ.
Questions and answers from the War Manpower Commission office in Rock Falls. Lou Knox explains GI Bill eligibility for education, loans, unemployment compensation, and training options. Details cover service dates, duration, induc tion age limits, dependents, and application steps with Veterans Administration and USES contacts.
The current policy grants appointments for the duration plus six months. Veterans receive examination points: five for honorably discharged veterans and ten for service connected disability. A ten point preference also goes to the widow or to a wife of a disabled veteran unable to qualify for government work.
Hope Evangelical church Sunday school plans its annual officer election for next Sunday at 10 AM. The pastor's list includes Superintendent Robert Spearman and Elmer Weber, First assistant none, Second assistant Merlyn Schreiner and Clarence Geison.
Chadwick Briefs recounts guests at Christmas meals in Humbert Beckmire and Lloyd Handel homes including Freeport Madison Highland Park and Wisconsin University student Phyllis Harris visiting her family. Updates note Robert Mackay in MacNeal Memorial hospital Berwyn Ill ill for weeks and Annie Towert wintering with Sarah Mackay in Riverside. Supper guests Christmas night at Bill Prowant include Sepha Stein Jackie Provant and others from Clinton Rock Falls Savanna and Savanna area.
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