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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1944
Page
5
A narrator thanks the committee for making him a government worker and bond salesman for Uncle Sam. He recalls meeting good people on his South Marion avenue trip and visits Mrs George Masson, noting her remodeled home as a warm family gathering place with a grand stone fireplace and imagined stockings for Santa.
Joe Palooka recounts visits and neighborly details from Massons and Tibbets while noting eight grandchildren and a proud grandmother. He mentions influenza and asthma struggles, a sick friend at Harvey Davis’s, and a hospital bound Mr Humphreys. He also cites corrections from Mabel Munson and praises a Denver-born first grandchild in California.
A call to organize neighborhoods to enlist boys and girls as waste paper commandos. The message urges friends clubs churches and businesses to mobilize now to help bring supplies home sooner and do more for the war effort.
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