The Rocking Chair Brigade Community Notes
Jeanne Shalla of Gary Indiana writes that she enjoys night classes at Horace Mann College and keeps up with the Saturday Journal while her family, including brother Jesse and James, plans a visit. Mrs Blanche Shalla praises her children’s progress and a river town visit is noted along with health concerns for Charley Palmer and aging residents. The piece ends with an invitation to join the Three Quarters of a Century honorary club as cooler weather returns.
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Jeanne Shalla
Johnson Street
Gary
Indiana
W. Navy Jr
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Mills
Horace Mann College
Iowa
Saturday Journal
Jesse
James
Local Readers Welcome Army News and Visits on a Quiet Weekend
Dr and Mrs C A Boice received a telegram Sunday morning that Major William A Boice has arrived safely in New York after two years in an Iceland army department. His wife and child, visiting her brother in New York, live in Iowa City. Royal social notes follow with local residents visiting in Washington and Cedar Falls.
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C. A. Boice
Major Wm. A. Boice
New York
Iceland
Iowa City
Nuisance Petition At Council Meeting Washington Near Stockyards
Washington city council last night heard a nuisance petition from residents near the Rock Island stockyards about piles of manure on the street adjoining the yards. Officials plan to serve the railway company to remove the nuisance while city actions included hiring a Fair field sanitarian to inspect milk under the city ordinance. City hall exterior work nears completion with ivory painted doors windows frames pillars and porch railings. The word pistol derives from Pistoia in Italy.
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Washington
Rock Island
Fairfield
Army
City Hall
County seeks forty blood donors for civil defense reserve
Washington county officials urge 40 healthy donors aged 16 to 60 to contribute blood for the state civil defense plasma reserve. Serum center representatives will collect half pints at the health unit office on the morning of August 26. Donors should call ahead to be scheduled with local physicians in Kalona Ainsworth Crawfordsville Brighton Riverside or with Mayor Ed Veggy.
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Washington County
Iowa
Health Unit
State Department of Health
Vna
State Civilian Defense Council
Kalona
J. L. Fry
Ainsworth
Frank Malhiin
Crawfordsville
N. J. Lease
Brighton
M L. Mce Creedy
Riverside
Ed Veggy
Eisenhower Urges WAC Reenlistment to Stay the Course
Allied Headquarters in North Africa, August 17. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called on the Women’s Army Corps to remain at their posts and reenlist, saying they should stick to their jobs amid the Messina campaign.
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N. Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Messina
Wacs
Frosty Jennings and Bill Shannon Compete For Golf Honors
Frosty Jennings and Bill Shannon will compete for golf honors on the local course, highlighting a planned matchup to determine the champion.
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Frosty
Jennings
Bill Shannon
Weather Outlook Cooler Tonight and Wednesday
The forecast calls for continued cool conditions through tonight and into Wednesday forenoon. Hog prices show top at 14.85 dollars, indicating strong liveweight demand in the market segment.
Local War News From North Africa To Texas Arrivals
A Burke Gillespie letter to his wife says he is now in North Africa and in good health. Mrs. Gillespie, formerly of Sioux City, stays at 410 East Main Street with her daughters Jane and Kathie. Wendell Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Baker, is listed at San Angelo Goodfellow Field Texas. Mrs. Louis Larson returns as receptionist at Dr. Boice and Dr. McLaughlin offices after a tonsillectomy. Corporal Jim Custer and family from Manatou Colorado visit Ed Custer's home while he takes a ten day furlough from Camp Carson Colorado.
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Burke Gillespie
North Africa
Gillespie
Sioux City
T. R. Gillespie
East Main Street
Jane
Kathie
Wendell Baker
George Baker
Robert W. Baker
Goodfellow Field
San Angelo
Texas
Louis Larson
C. A. Boice
Cpl
Jim Custer
Manatou
Colorado
Ed Custer
Corporal Custer
Camp Carson
Wasp Launches in Quincy with Sinking Hero’s Son Present
The U S aircraft carrier Wasp was launched at Bethlehem Steel fore river yard in Quincy Massachusetts. Six year old Jackie Shea of Cambridge attended with her mother as her father Commander John J Shea who died in the sinking of the previous Wasp stood honored.
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Quincy
Mass
Wasp
Bethlehem Steel Company
Fore River
Jackie Shea
Cambridge
John J. Shea
General urges WAC enlistment over returning home
The general urged the women in the Women's Army Corps to enlist in the WAC rather than go home, declaring If a single one of you goes home, it's too many.
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Women's Army Corps
WAC
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Janet
Rubio
Iowa State Teachers College
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Lawson General Hospital
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Ask Council For Action
Pistoia
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Ment
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