The Rocking Chair Brigade Fez A Night of Narrow Escape
Lt. Vida Casper writes to her parents from an evacuation hospital about a night of air raids near Berlin, describing tents hit by strafing and a close call that left her shaken yet alive while caring for German prisoners. The piece sits among community notes on local staff, readers, and wartime updates.
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Vida Casper
Chas. Casper
Air Force
Berlin
Rhine
Passing Years in Washington area gatherings and notes
A collage of short items recalls community life. Louella Kerr visits Washington relatives, May events in town include graduations, dances, concerts, and a May festival. Local figures such as Mrs. Ab Anderson, Carl Hedges, and D A R regent-elects are noted along with weddings, moves, birthdays, and a fatal death in 1905.
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Louella Kerr
W. A. Anderson
Andersen
Miss Kerr
Davenport
Verne Kerr
Hospital Discharges and Birth Notices Summary
The list records multiple hospital discharges and admissions including Edward Campbell Wellman and Mrs Ii l Hiett. births to Mr and Mrs Marion Huisman and Mr and Mrs Harry Kuntz with weights. newborns for Lt and Mrs Roger Stannard and Mr and Mrs Joe Jordan. appendectomies for Martha Irene Whittaker and Mrs Richard White. other admissions for Carl Ward Betty Davison Ralph Thompson and Mrs Rudolph Simon and son Dale Elmer. dismissals include Zelather Taylor and Edward Campbell Wellman.
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Edward Campbell
Wellman
II l. Hiett
South Third Avenue
Edwin Bailey
West
Washington Street
Orin Wallace
West Washington Street
John Adams
Ainsworth
Spencer Reed
Will Erwin
North
Iowa Avenue
Earl Redlinger
Marion Huisman
North Second Avenue
Harry Kuntz
Route Three
Joe Riordan
Keota
Martha Irene Whittaker
Richard White
Lafe Klopfenstein
Zelather Taylor
Madison Street
Ralph Thompson
Joseph H. Jones
Roger Stannard
Rubio
Rudolph Simon
Dale Elmer
Riverside
Meint Koehler
William Dean
Route One
Washington News Scattered Local Life and War Notes
Recap of residents arrivals and departures, health updates, and community events. Reports on military service, local marriages, school plans for Victory Day, church notices, and new business openings in Washington with several short local anecdotes.
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Milo Phillips
Ministerial Association
Methodist Church
Sehell
Store Closure Report for Famous Department Store
Store closed for reasons not stated. H Reinfield and Co proprietors of the Famous department store are referenced as managing the closure. Further details are unclear in the fragment.
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H. Reinfield and Co
Deaths of the Week West Chester and Nearby
Death notices report a 65 year old man passing at home after a long illness. Survived by wife Annie M Bail Keller and ten sons and daughters. Other obituaries include Harlan Dean Cherryholmes 84, first wife Jennie Crooks, later Harriet Inghram, four sons and two daughters. Sophia Smith Hasty 2 dies in Janesville Wisconsin with nine sons and many daughters. Frank Haney brother, 68, and a 51 year old Ainsworth resident, John In Ainsworth, noted. Nancy Lee Lackey Shaffer widow of John Shaffer, 90, dies in Crawfordsville.
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West Chester
Annie M. Bail Keller
Harlan Dean Cherryholmes
Jennie Crooks
John B. Cregg
Harriet Inghram
Wig
Richmond
Sophia Smith Hasty
Eda Stumpf
Janesville
Wis
Nancy Lee Lackey Shefffer
John Shaffer
Crawfordsville
Fragmentary remark on choosing clothes and Sunday plans
The text notes a tramp has the advantage of not worrying about what to wear on Sunday and discusses the ease of deciding morning attire.
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Europe
Fred Miller
Moore
Ing
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