were entertained Wednesday evening in the home of Miss Rae Wilson. The group plan to organize a club in the near future. Telegraph | Oct. 23, 1941 Miss Rae Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson, is reported to be ill in her home on East Eighth Street. In fact, Rae had taken to her bed in August and had been ill for a month while in Arkansas (as she had told Daily Bulletin readers on May 1). She was still in her sickbed on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, when news of the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor broke on America’s radio stations as North Platte residents returned from their churches. (The Bulletin published a “War Extra” that day, but no microfilmed copies survive.) Daily Bulletin Editorial | Dec. 9, 1941 “The Supreme Test” And so it has come at last. War, which Americans have been expecting with more or less certainty sooner or later, is here now. … Groups and individuals throughout the coun- try must get the idea that this is a war by ALL Americans for ALL Americans. No individuals, no groups or classes must be given any idea that for their part or their help or their sacrifices they’re going to be rewarded at the expense of any other groups or individuals. THIS IS TOTAL WAR
North Platte had three newspapers during World War II: the evening Telegraph, founded in 1881; the morning Daily Bulletin, started as a free shop- per in 1932 but a full-fledged newspaper since 1938; and the weekly Tribune, which operated from 1885 to 1963. It was this original Bulletin (not related to the weekly paper founded un- der that name in 2003) that would record the Canteen’s origins. Daily Bulletin | July 9, 1941 Miss Rae Wilson, sister of Captain Denver Wilson, said yesterday in discussing her extended visit at Camp Robinson, Ark.: … “I would like very much to organize a club of sisters, sweethearts and wives and young girls of Company D, who are willing in some way to help furnish the recreation hall. Any who are interested, I wish they would get in touch with me. Also if anybody would like to do something for Our Boys there, such as sending a 6 months’ or year’s subscription to a magazine, or maybe seeing about some of them who don’t have mothers or fathers and could help those boys out by writing or send- ing a cake, if these people would get in touch with me, they could help in a million ways. You would be surprised of how many boys [there are] that do not receive any such mail at all.” Telegraph | July 24, 1941 Sisters, wives and sweethearts numbering 12, of men in the U.S. army at Camp Robinson, Ark.,
The Telegraph’s front page of Dec. 8, 1941. The North Platte Telegraph
AND IT CALLS FOR TOTAL EFFORT BY ALL AMERICANS. … Telegraph | Dec. 8, 1941 A short patriotic service was held this afternoon at 3:30 at the corner of First and Dewey streets, at the request of the ex-service men of the last World War … and following this Mayor George B. Dent Jr. gave a proclamation, stating: “I call upon every citizen of this community to cooperate with the government to the end that we may be successful in this conflict. Those of us who are at home have duties and obligations which we must not shirk. ...” Continued on page 22
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