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Heroes Next Door: Helping Save the World in 1945

On the Homefront: November 1945

While military operations were going on all over the world, the people of La Crosse County were doing their part for the war effort. Local industries had switched from consumer goods to war material. With so many men in the armed forces, many jobs formerly performed by them were now done by women. Everyone had to deal with rationing of gasoline, rubber, food, and other essentials. The war touched almost every facet of life in some way or another.

Feature Stories

by Jeff Rand, Adult Services librarian

When Buying a Car Made News

Cigarette Shower

Giving Thanks in 1945

Date	Citation	Preview
1945-11-1	Bangor Independent p1	Violet Everson to Marry Sgt. Gomez
1945-11-1	La Crosse County Record p1	Onalaska Bond Quota
1945-11-1	La Crosse County Record p1	Victory Loan Quotas
1945-11-1	La Crosse County Record p4	La Crosse County Victory Bond Quota
1945-11-1	La Crosse Tribune p7	Rivoli Bond Show
1945-11-1	La Crosse Tribune p11	Six Local Workers at Pearl Harbor Navy Yards
1945-11-2	La Crosse Tribune p1	La Crosse Victory Loan Drive
1945-11-2	La Crosse Tribune p3	House on 92nd Street at the Hollywood
1945-11-2	La Crosse Tribune p5	La Crosse Navy Mothers Club Donation
1945-11-2	La Crosse Tribune p5	Red Cross Branches Reports
1945-11-2	La Crosse Tribune p5	Red Cross Home Office Report
1945-11-2	La Crosse Tribune p5	Red Cross Report
1945-11-2	La Crosse Tribune p5	Sunday Suppers for Servicemen
1945-11-3	La Crosse Tribune p1	Bonds Sales
1945-11-3	La Crosse Tribune p4	Automobiles and Shoes
1945-11-3	La Crosse Tribune p7	Draft Boards Reveal Lists
1945-11-4	La Crosse Tribune p3	A Letter from Home
1945-11-4	La Crosse Tribune p5	Morehouse Returns from ETO
1945-11-4	La Crosse Tribune p7	House on 92nd Street at Hollywood
1945-11-4	La Crosse Tribune p10	Marcella Kiesling Marries California Soldier
1945-11-4	La Crosse Tribune p11	State Guard Meets Monday
1945-11-5	La Crosse Tribune p2	Club Serves Supper to Servicemen
1945-11-5	La Crosse Tribune p2	OPA Executive Resigns
1945-11-5	La Crosse Tribune p2	Soldiers Break Glass
1945-11-5	La Crosse Tribune p5	Betty Niedbalski Marries Officer
1945-11-5	La Crosse Tribune p5	McCoy Dances
1945-11-5	La Crosse Tribune p5	Ruth Koch Marries Marine Corps Vet
1945-11-5	La Crosse Tribune p5	Sister Ceciline Back from Japanese Internment
1945-11-6	La Crosse Tribune p3	La Crosse County War Fund Committee
1945-11-6	La Crosse Tribune p4	NSP Ad for Victory Bonds
1945-11-6	La Crosse Tribune p10	Army Re-enlistment
1945-11-6	La Crosse Tribune p12	Ration Guide
1945-11-7	La Crosse Tribune p7	Rivoli Bond Rally
1945-11-7	La Crosse Tribune p12	Victory Bond Sales
1945-11-7	La Crosse Tribune p14	Marine Corps Day Proclamation
1945-11-8	Bangor Independent p1	Marine Corps Proclamation
1945-11-8	Bangor Independent p1	Victory Loan Quotas
1945-11-8	Non-Pareil Journal p1	Bond Sales
1945-11-8	Non-Pareil Journal p1	Navy Mothers Club in West Salem
1945-11-8	Non-Pareil Journal p1	Victory Loan Quota for West Salem
1945-11-8	Non-Pareil Journal p1	When I Get Big
1945-11-8	Non-Pareil Journal p5	God Is My Co-Pilot at Salem Theater
1945-11-8	Non-Pareil Journal p8	Ruth Koch Marries Marine Corps Vet
1945-11-8	La Crosse County Record p1	Marine Corps Day Proclamation
1945-11-8	La Crosse County Record p1	Victory Loan Drive
1945-11-8	La Crosse County Record p4	Victory Loan Ad
1945-11-8	La Crosse County Record p5	Ruth Koch Marries Marine
1945-11-8	La Crosse County Record p8	Leslie Holthaus, Ivan Tolvstad, Charles Herrmann
1945-11-8	La Crosse County Record p8	Solicitors in Campbell for War Loan Drive
1945-11-8	La Crosse Tribune p1	Bond Sales
1945-11-8	La Crosse Tribune p8	Betty Niedbalski Marries Officer
1945-11-8	La Crosse Tribune p8	Bus to McCoy Dance
1945-11-8	La Crosse Tribune p19	La Crosse USO Praised
1945-11-9	La Crosse Tribune p4	Ellen Howland to Marry Navy Man
1945-11-9	La Crosse Tribune p4	Michaelyn Nowak Marries Minnesota Officer
1945-11-9	La Crosse Tribune p6	College Vets Set Up Co-Op
1945-11-9	La Crosse Tribune p7	Falk-Zolle Co. Ad for Tires
1945-11-9	La Crosse Tribune p8	Bond for Every Seat
1945-11-9	La Crosse Tribune p8	First Yank into Tokyo at Wisconsin Theater
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p1	Victory Bond Sales Lag
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p2	First Postwar Car Purchased FEATURE STORY - When Buying a Car Made News
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p4	A Letter from Home
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p5	Foreign Correspondent Visits Mother in La Crosse
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p6	Victory Loan Drive
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p9	Abroad with Two Yanks at 5th Avenue Theater
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p10	County War Fund Drive
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p10	Nylons Coming
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p12	Red Cross Knitting
1945-11-11	La Crosse Tribune p13	Victory War Loan Ad
1945-11-12	La Crosse Tribune p4	McCoy Dances
1945-11-12	La Crosse Tribune p4	Red Cross Surgical Dressing Report
1945-11-12	La Crosse Tribune p4	Thank You Note from Greece
1945-11-13	La Crosse Tribune p4	Navy Mothers Serve Supper
1945-11-13	La Crosse Tribune p8	County Lags in Bond Sales
1945-11-14	La Crosse Tribune p1	Bond Sales Lagging
1945-11-14	La Crosse Tribune p4	Jeanette Brey Marries Illinois Veteran
1945-11-14	La Crosse Tribune p4	Mrs. Auzie (Halaska) Wofford to Knoxville
1945-11-14	La Crosse Tribune p6	Coca-Cola Ad
1945-11-15	Non-Pareil Journal p1	Gifts to Veterans Campaign
1945-11-15	La Crosse County Record p1	La Crosse County Victory Loan Quota
1945-11-15	La Crosse County Record p1	Victory Loan Drive
1945-11-15	La Crosse County Record p4	Buy Victory Bonds
1945-11-15	La Crosse Tribune p1	County War Fund Campaign to Start
1945-11-15	La Crosse Tribune p11	Paper Collection Will Continue
1945-11-15	La Crosse Tribune p15	Employment Reconversion Problems
1945-11-15	La Crosse Tribune p18	New Enlistees in Navy
1945-11-15	La Crosse Tribune 20	Ration Guide
1945-11-16	La Crosse Tribune p5	Falk-Zolle Co. on Tires
1945-11-16	La Crosse Tribune p5	Victory Loan Sales Lagging
1945-11-16	La Crosse Tribune p7	Victory Bonds Ad
1945-11-17	La Crosse Tribune p6	La Crosse War Fund Drive Opens Monday
1945-11-18	La Crosse Tribune p8	Beverly Behling Marries Veteran
1945-11-18	La Crosse Tribune p8	Cigarette Shower for Vets FEATURE STORY - Cigarette Shower
1945-11-18	La Crosse Tribune p8	McCoy Dances
1945-11-18	La Crosse Tribune p8	USO Cookies
1945-11-18	La Crosse Tribune p11	Girl Scouts Make Friendship Bags
1945-11-19	La Crosse Tribune p2	Arrest 2 Soldiers for USO Robbery
1945-11-19	La Crosse Tribune p8	Maydell Scanlan Marries South Dakota Officer
1945-11-19	La Crosse Tribune p11	Thanksgiving Ad
1945-11-19	La Crosse Tribune p13	Marine War Trophy Train
1945-11-20	La Crosse Tribune p1	400 Workers Begin Drive
1945-11-20	La Crosse Tribune p1	World-distance Record Plane Flies Over La Crosse
1945-11-20	La Crosse Tribune p10	Betty Hedges to Marry Chicago Soldier
1945-11-20	La Crosse Tribune p10	Doris Van Loon Prenuptial
1945-11-21	La Crosse Tribune p2	Coca-Cola Ad for Bonds
1945-11-21	La Crosse Tribune p3	La Crosse Breweries Thanksgiving Ad
1945-11-21	La Crosse Tribune p5	La Crosse OPA Labor Advisory Committee
1945-11-21	La Crosse Tribune p6	B-29 Sets Record Over La Crosse
1945-11-21	La Crosse Tribune p10	Ration Guide
1945-11-21	La Crosse Tribune p12	McCoy Show Booked Here
1945-11-22	Bangor Independent p1	Role of Newspapers
1945-11-22	Bangor Independent p2	This Thanksgiving Day
1945-11-22	Bangor Independent p3	Anchors Aweigh at Rivoli
1945-11-22	Non-Pareil Journal p1	Navy Mothers Club Tag Day
1945-11-22	Non-Pareil Journal p1	Victory Bond Sale
1945-11-22	Non-Pareil Journal p1	War Dog Home
1945-11-22	Non-Pareil Journal p5	La Crosse County War Fund Workers Banquet
1945-11-22	La Crosse County Record p1	Victory Loan Drive
1945-11-22	La Crosse County Record p4	Buy Victory Bonds
1945-11-22	La Crosse Tribune p1	Thanksgiving Day FEATURE STORY - Giving Thanks in 1945
1945-11-22	La Crosse Tribune p2	Barron's Ad for Victory Bonds
1945-11-22	La Crosse Tribune p6	Thanksgiving Editorial
1945-11-22	La Crosse Tribune p8	Veterans' Service Officer Report
1945-11-22	La Crosse Tribune p10	Eleven La Crosse County Inductees
1945-11-22	La Crosse Tribune p11	Plan Clothing Drive in January
1945-11-22	La Crosse Tribune p12	Thanksgiving Display
1945-11-22	La Crosse Tribune p15	Victory Loan Ad
1945-11-23	La Crosse Tribune p1	Bond Selling Slowing Down
1945-11-23	La Crosse Tribune p4	USO Cookies
1945-11-23	La Crosse Tribune p7	Anchors Aweigh at Rivoli
1945-11-24	La Crosse Tribune p1	Meat Disappears in City
1945-11-24	La Crosse Tribune p2	Army Chaplain Talks in City
1945-11-24	La Crosse Tribune p2	Church Plans Vets' Service
1945-11-25	La Crosse Tribune p4	A Letter from Home
1945-11-25	La Crosse Tribune p7	Victory Loan Train on Dec. 7
1945-11-25	La Crosse Tribune p8	Doris Van Loon Marries Mayville Soldier
1945-11-25	La Crosse Tribune p8	Grace Lange Engaged to Eau Claire Officer
1945-11-25	La Crosse Tribune p8	Mary Phalin Marries California Soldier
1945-11-25	La Crosse Tribune p10	Nelson Clothing Co. Ad for Victory Loan Bonds
1945-11-25	La Crosse Tribune p11	Purchase Bonds to See Minstrel Show
1945-11-25	La Crosse Tribune p16	War Fund Drive
1945-11-26	La Crosse Tribune p1	Urge Purchase of Bonds
1945-11-26	La Crosse Tribune p4	Helen Roraff Marries New Jersey Veteran
1945-11-26	La Crosse Tribune p4	Marjorie Korish Engaged to Indiana Soldier
1945-11-26	La Crosse Tribune p4	Shirley Volkert Marries New York Soldier
1945-11-26	La Crosse Tribune p6	Army Recruiting Office
1945-11-26	La Crosse Tribune p9	Victory Bond Premiere at the Hollywood
1945-11-27	La Crosse Tribune p7	Victory Bond Sales Distressing
1945-11-27	La Crosse Tribune p9	Auto Parts Service Receives Shipment of Tires
1945-11-27	La Crosse Tribune p10	First Carload of Tires
1945-11-27	La Crosse Tribune p12	Doerflinger's Ad for Victory Bonds
1945-11-28	La Crosse Tribune p8	Alice Hansen Marries Washington Soldier
1945-11-28	La Crosse Tribune p11	Hollywood Bond Premiere
1945-11-29	Bangor Independent p1	Victory Bond Sale at Basketball Game
1945-11-29	Non-Pareil Journal p1	Gifts to Yanks Collection
1945-11-29	Non-Pareil Journal p1	Victory Bond Auction After Game
1945-11-29	Non-Pareil Journal p5	Study Club Hears About Norway Occupation
1945-11-29	Non-Pareil Journal p8	Victory Bond Auction
1945-11-29	La Crosse County Record p1	Buy Victory Bonds
1945-11-29	La Crosse County Record p1	Homemakers Donate to War Fund
1945-11-29	La Crosse County Record p1	Navy Mothers Meeting
1945-11-29	La Crosse County Record p4	Let's Do Our Share for Victory Bonds
1945-11-29	La Crosse Tribune p1	County Behind in Bond Sales
1945-11-29	La Crosse Tribune p4	Bond Minstrel Show
1945-11-29	La Crosse Tribune p16	Disabled American Veterans Proclamation
1945-11-29	La Crosse Tribune p24	Scout Medals for Victory Gardens
1945-11-30	La Crosse Tribune p2	War Fund Drive Ending
1945-11-30	La Crosse Tribune p3	Victory Loan Train on the Way
1945-11-30	La Crosse Tribune p4	Bond Buyers Crowd Hollywood
1945-11-30	La Crosse Tribune p6	Howard's Ad for Victory Bonds
1945-11-30	La Crosse Tribune p7	Greater Participation in War Loan Drive
1945-11-30	La Crosse Tribune p8	USO Cookies
1945-11-30	La Crosse Tribune p9	Victory Bonds of Minstrel Show

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