Frontier and fair dates across Illinois and Wyoming
Listings of fairs and festivals with dates in July August and September 1942 across Cheyenne Wyoming Warren Illinois Morrison Illinois and Chicago Sol diers Field Chicago plus smuggled story about a Nazi mother sending boots to her son in Russia with a quip about bootlegged boots. Various light jokes and proverbs appear interleaved with weather reminiscences and a Christian liberty quotation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soldiers Field
Chicago
Warren Fair
Warren
Illinois
Morrison
Germany
Early American flag design and 1818 stripe restoration
The Continental Congress on June 14 1777 established thirteen stripes and a blue field with thirteen white stars. Legend credits Betsy Ross with star design. Vermont and Kentucky addition followed an 1704 act. Flag inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner after Fr. McHenry. Congress in 1818 restored the original number of stripes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Betsy Ross
Vermont
Kentucky
Congress
Fr. McHenry
Francis Scott Key
Mixed Classified Ads From Fulton and Thomson Illinois
Local entries advertise sewing machines parts and accessories from Home Appliance Co Fulton Illinois. Listings include fish market hours, radio and appliances for sale, painting services, potatoes for sale, used washing machines and stoves, psychic readings in Davenport Iowa, rooms for rent in Thomson, second hand furniture dealer in Clinton Iowa, and help wanted ads for housekeepers and maids with contact details and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Appliance Co
Fulton
Ill
Robinson
Thomson
Fred Smith
Argo-Fa
Devoe
Strating Service Co
George Potter
Florence Dornes
West Ord St
Davenport
Iowa
Dial
Ada Lewis
Repair Parts and Outing Housewares
Repair parts are advertised for mowers and binders with service for break downs. A stray blackout scene and dialogue fragments follow including a humor tone about domestic life and a baseball joke with a pun about catching.
Wade's Wide Cracks Columns of a Salt Gazette
A potpourri of jokes and quips with a Saluta Gazette flavor covers social bars, army admonitions, love, marriage, dental gags, and light moralizing. It includes quips about women, humor on wartime bonds, and snippets about daily life and etiquette.
Talking at the Movies and a Peachy Dilemma
A man complains about talking in a cinema while a woman argues it is none of his business. A girl Norah moves to a new place and overhears praise for perfunctory duties. Willie misses the bell causing lateness, and three year old Sue asks if she must eat the cloth on a peach during a visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norah
Sue
Training Auxiliary Firemen in Carroll County Start Soon
Chief Harold A. Hersey will instruct the first Lanark class starting July 5 at 7 p.m. aided by a Savanna auxiliary. The program outlines initial, advanced, and supplemental training to prepare auxiliaries for air raid defense and major fires, with Savanna reporting 25 auxiliaries under training and a May civil defense demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold A. Hersey
Carroll County
Lanark
Harold Hersey
Savanna
Savanna Fire Department
Also Mentioned on This Page
Review Classifieds
Review
Carroll
Rock Island
Guy Turney
Blake
Jim Bull
Union Grove
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Alaska
George Oliver
Hillsdale
We W. Ivey & Sons
Mt. Carroll
Clyde Groharing
Robert Sargent Lanark
A. L. Boothby
National Bank
Savanna, Ill
Scovill
Clinton
Towa
General Automotive
Strand Theatre
General Auto CO
Bear Service Station
4Th Ave
Jake Kerkstra
David F.crouse
London
Epless
Johnny
Joe
Sterling Sales
Sterling, Ill
Brookville
Wehmeyer
Auc
Harry Kipnis
Fli
Sheen
Mendota
Biers Live Stock Commission Co
T. B
Bangs
Rush W. Carroll
Thomsen
Fowlers Farms
S. E
Garden Plain
J. E. Goodenow
Maquoketa
George Gilbert
Polo
Til
D. Earl Hollinshead
Paul D. Carlson
Erie
Ilinois
Miller White & Woods
Earl A. Brotzman
Union Stock Yards
Ted
Kipnis Sales
Wisconsin
Guernsey
MT. Carroll Sales CO
O. P. Miles
Roy Fritz
H. Kipnis
GASOL
Phillips “66” Station
Will Rentschler
U. S
Fort Moultrie
Jasper
Virginia
Culpeper
New England
Stars and
Atwater Kent Radio
Leonard Stage
Montgomery Ward
Melvin Johnson
Nam
Maytog
John Renkes
Edward Jowasky
van St
Town
E. F. Lawrence
Shore Acres
Rock Falls
Sharpe Carroll
Thomson, Ill
Francke & Switzer
Dickie
Hubby
Wifey
Dearest
Smith
Wade
Wade Guenther
Salt Gazette
Sabula
Buzzzz
Junius
McCormick Deering
International Harvester
Ealer
Savanna Farm
Just
Milwaukee Stock Yards
Wm. Ehredt & Son
W. H. Foster
M. D
Wilson Bldg
O. A. Kinsel
Naprapath
Morrison, Ill
Willie
Ave
Clinton, Iowa
M. &. Anderson
Clinton, Loca
Letz Feed Mills
John
John Deere
Teh
Groen
Gus A. Brumer, JR
South
St. Clinton
Jeweler
Western Union
Dr.e. J. Musk
Musk Optical Company
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