Editorial Telegrams On Postwar Labor Strife And Charities
A 1946 editorial digest discusses labor strikes, political pressure, and public sentiment. It cites a national March of Dimes event with 300 feet of dimes raised, a telegram to Congressman Martin urging anti strike legislation, and reactions from Knoxville and Creston papers about wartime labor issues and electoral year politics. It notes worker letters in Congress and broader calls for labor peace and employment.
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Washington
Iowa
Congress
Martin
House
Washington, D. DC
George Wilson
B. B. Hickenlooper
U. S. Senate
Washington, D.C
Congressional Record
General Motors
Creston News
White House
Speak well of your enemies by the way
A brief editorial note urges kindness to adversaries noting the reader created them and the value of measured rhetoric. It emphasizes civility toward rivals and cautions against personal attacks in public discourse. The piece frames opposition as a consequence of past actions.
Playing Hunch in a Village Lottery Tale
A village character expects luck as neighbors note his sudden wealth. He explains he dreamed of seven for three nights and bought ticket number 24, claiming luck came from a hunch. The piece mixes humor with brief dialogue about luck and a joke ending about letters and imagination.
Yvonne De Carlo Finds Breakthrough Role as Frontier Gal
Yvonne De Carlo pursues a hobby of horseback riding and becomes a standout horsewoman. Universal casts her as leading lady in Frontier Gal after seeing her Salome performance. Rod Cameron co stars with De Carlo in the Technicolor outdoor drama arriving Thursday at the State Theatre with Andy Devine and Mager Knight also in the cast.
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Yvonne de Carlo
Walter Wanger
Yvonne
Universal
Andy Devine
Mager Knight
Bethel Items by Ruth Gideon
Bethel report notes Mr and Mrs Jussel Phrentelt and family of Muscatine spent last Sunday at the Kay Niffenegger home.
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Ruth Gideon
Bethel
Mrs. Jussel Phrentelt
Muscatine
Kay Niffenegper
Dc. J. Welfe
Elaine Walt
Mrs. Gideon
May
Ruth
Ernest
Mae Wallace
Clarence Walker
Flossie Holmes
Rose Fitzgerald
Ben Fitzgerald
Henry Peters
Iowa City
Ray Niffenegger
Ouse
Berhood
Roy Quinn of
Cotter
Robert Quinn
Myrtle Anderson
Grove Letts
Mac Wallace
Don
Donald Lone
Phoiils Brown
Mac Gideon
Texas scale joke in wartime London dialogue
An American soldier in London tries to explain Texas size to a Englishman by saying a train ride all day and night still stays in Texas. The Briton quips that only English trains are that slow. A second quip references a tobacco chewing dog a Spitz.
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London
Texas
McNarney Confirms Large Jewish Exodus From Poland
General McNarney in his January report on American occupation of Germany supported General Morgan’s claim of a large scale Jewish flight from Poland. He noted increasing influx to the American zone with refugees appearing in better physical condition and better supplied than earlier arrivals.
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Frankfurt
Joseph T. McNarney
Europe
Sir Frederick Morgan
Poland
McNarney
Germany
Morgan
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Reich
Changes at state hospitals urged by fire marshal
Des Moines January 29 report cites John Strohm survey of thirteen state institutions. Cost estimates range from 560 to 7604 for various fire safety upgrades with some minor alterations possible for 56964. Mount Pleasant hospital faces drastic fireproofing proposals for east and west wings.
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Des Moines
John Strohm
Ralph Arnold
Althouse
Arnold
Strohm
Ontoday
Robert Bine
Mount Pleasant Hospital
Netherlands East India Company and colonial governance
In 1602 the Netherlands formed the East India Company which dominated tropical eastern colonies until its dissolution in 1798. From 1816 the Dutch government oversaw East Indian affairs, reducing tribal wars and importing seeds for crops like coffee tobacco rubber quinine and more to generate profits.
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Netherlands
East India Company
Far Eastern Empire
Replacement of Uniform Devices in Update
A notice states that old equipment will be replaced with new and uniform devices across departments. The plan aims to standardize components, improve compatibility, and streamline maintenance. Specific timelines or involved teams are not provided in the readable text.
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Ella Mae Morse
Cheryl Walker
East Indies
Scott Furniture Co
Doels
Ruud and Smith
Iowa Southern Utilities CO
All IN
Ross Motor Service
Dixie Dugan
By Mevoy
Striebel
Joe Palooka
Jud Bradley
Hugh . Zweidinger
HAM Fishes
Joe
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