Local Social Notes and Visits Chronicle Community Life
Preston Prairie Rodden Obenheim and Maynard Decker attend in the Elmer E Smith residence. A new baby at the Donald Buck Walter home is named Zane. Mrs Reid of Chicago visits the Albert Petty household. Mr and Mrs 8 F Graves visit relatives. Mrs Oxcar Smith and daughter Irene visit the Martin Ehredt home. Spencer Henderson baled hay for farmers.
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Rodden Obenheim
Maynard Decker
Hespera
Elmer E. Smith
Donald Buckwalter
Zane
Mrs. Reid
Chicago
Albert Petty
8. F. Graves
Oxcar Smith
Irene
Martin, Ehredt
Spencer Henderson
Thomson Illinois annual appropriation ordinance 1942
The Thomson village board enacts a 1942 fiscal year appropriation ordinance detailing sums for street lighting fire and police departments water works printing office supplies salaries elections park maintenance and tax warrants totaling 3573.19 dollars. The funds come from all village sources and the ordinance takes effect after passage on July 6 1942.
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Thomson
Mlinois
Board of Trustees
Thomson, Ilinois
Illinois
Kate Cole Whitney
Arthur W. Pape
Farmer Herman Daehler Leads Local AAA Effort For War Food
Herman Daehler, a 240 acre farmer near Chadwick in Fair Haven township, chairs the AAA county committee and pushes greater food production for the U S war effort. He contours his land to prevent soil loss, lime and phosphate the fields, and grows alfalfa and sweet clover while breeding Shorthorn cattle. His wife Mrs. Daehler runs a productive Victory garden and large White Rock flock, yielding over 200 eggs daily with plans for 500 yearly chicks. The Daehlers lost their home to fire two years ago and rebuilt a Colonial style house with a sunlit kitchen and modern touches. They are parents to four boys and one girl including Arlene serving overseas and Leon at the State University of Illinois.
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Herman Dachler
Dachler
Daehlers
Chadwick
Fair Haven
Herman
United States
Hitler
Mr. Daehler
Carroll County
Dahler
Daehler
Arlene
U. S. Armed Forces
New Caledonia
Leon
State University of
Ilinois
Farm Bureau
AAA
Nothing But the Truth comes to Royal Theatre Fulton
Bob Hope stars in Nothing But the Truth at the Royal Theatre in Fulton for three days, with Paulette Goddard co starring. The comedy follows Hope as a young man who must tell the truth for 24 hours to win a $10,000 bet against Edward Arnold and others, promising uproarious scenes.
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Royal Theatre
Fulton
Bob Hope
Hope
Paulette Goddard
Charles Boyer
Washington
Edward Arnold
Glenn Anders
Leif Erickson
Local notes from Morrison area households and injuries
Sunday visits include Argo and Kneal Hook in Morrison and Mrs. Earl Freeman in Rockford. Arnold Van Derbeest sustains a leg cut at the Chas Geist farm near Chadwick and will miss work for days. The Argo school board house is being razed and moved by Paul Carpenter for a new dwelling. A girl laments a delayed proposal after receiving a six month supply of stationery.
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Kneal Hook
Morrison
Earl Freeman
Rockford
Chas. Freeman
Arnold van Derbeest
Chadwick
George Schmaling
Ester and
Leland
Paul Carpenter
Argo
Paul
Quips and Quirks from a Busy Page of Wit and Whimsy
A collage of jokes and light anecdotes about marriage etiquette, quirky science quips, odd exchanges in taxis and weddings, and humorous digs at manners. Includes jests about eggs, hats, neighborly talk, and a jealous husband with a dancing wife.
WEDDINGS Continued From Page One In Military Posts
Newport News Virginia Arthur Ward of Savannah ordnance depot married at 9 in post chapel. Stella Satterlee of Smyrna N Y wed Staff Sgt Stanley Lane at 7 50 PM in Savannah depot chapel. Cadet Warren Fossett and Florence Brown wed at Sheppard Field Texas. Marjorie Heath and Rev Wir Meyer wed in Norwalk Ohio First Baptist Church. Attendants named. graduates and service details noted.
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Newport News
Pfe
Arthur P. Ward
Savanna Ordnance Depot
The
Ordnance Depot
W. R. Rings
Satterlee-Lane
Stella Mae Satterlee
Smyrna
N. Y
Stanley Herbert Lane
Set. Lane
Savanna
Sheppard Field
Tex
Florence M.brown
Roy Frown
Milledgeville
Warren M. Fossett
Monroe Fossett
Roy C. David
Helen Eason
Wichita Falls
Earl Willoughby
Harrison, Ark
Baker’s Training School
Fort Sill
Oklo
Poultry Prices and Market Effects in War Era Debate
The piece discusses ceiling prices for poultry and other items, the potential impact on consumers and sellers, and the likely shift in demand as production rises. It notes poultry may grow while beef and pork face ceilings, examines per capita chicken consumption, and jokes about an incorrect engagement report in a local paper.
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Middle West
Quick Jokes and Wit from a History of Genders and Gags
A parade of light humor includes a taxonomy of gender roles with a gag about temperate and intemperate masculine, frigid and torrid feminine. It also tells a joke about two McTavish brothers and a baffling embalming offer, a child’s career dream, and a naughty girl’s attempted whipping interrupted by her brother.
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Johnny
Illinois Minerals War Effort Mental Corps Aids War
A statewide effort in Illinois mobilizes scientists to locate mineral reserves and improve processing for industrial use. The program aims to conserve transport, enhance mineral utility during wartime, and yield lasting regional benefits after the war ends.
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Illinois
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