Daily Bulletin | Feb. 12, 1942 Nine hundred marines who had been stationed in Iceland were served here yesterday by the North Platte Canteen. … A variety of soldiers were treated yesterday. Most of them were Americans. Others came from Czecho-Slovakia, Greece, England, Iceland and Canada. Several men home on furloughs had been at Pearl Harbor or in the Philippines. Daily Bulletin | Feb. 14, 1942 Passage of an estimated 5,000 troops through North Platte yesterday virtually left this commu- nity’s nationally-famous Canteen “flat broke,” Miss Rae Wilson, Canteen chairman, said last night. … Sunday will be Ogallala day with a delegation from there. Telegraph | Feb. 25, 1942 Twenty-two women from Tryon took over the Canteen work today, bringing with them enough supplies to last the service for two days. They reported that the Canteen was receiving wide rec- ognition throughout the western part of the state. “Prowler,” Daily Bulletin | March 13, 1942 Willard Meyer of Leavenworth, Kansas, who is stationed there with the army, passed thru this city the other morning with a group of soldiers. The Canteen girls heard they were coming and waited up for the train, which arrived at 4 a.m. The boys were presented with two baskets of food from the
The audience was instructed their money would cheerfully be refunded if dissatisfied with the pro- gram and “smoking in the outer lobby only.” Daily Bulletin | Jan. 28, 1942 During the past month girls of the Canteen service here have given away 152 baskets of apples. Multiply that by about 150 apples to the basket and you have given a lot of good will as well. Add to that 163 cartons of cigarettes and thousands of magazines in addition to games, cookies and many other items and you find the reason the girls here are getting scores of letters from service men all over the U.S. … Churches are cooperating heartily. Women of the [First Evangelical] Lutheran church assist on Monday, Methodists on Tuesday, Presbyterians on Thursday, Catholics on Friday and Episcopalians on Saturday. Daily Bulletin | Jan. 31, 1942 “No one will ever be able to realize how ghastly the attack on Pearl Harbor was unless he was there,” a wounded sailor passing through North Platte told Miss Rae Wilson and girls of the Canteen service. … A group of Sutherland women assisted at the Canteen yesterday, and Paxton women will be here to assist today. The Canteen was visited yesterday by groups from Maywood, McCook, Curtis, Big Springs and Ogallala. Each town wants a day set aside
when women and girls will come here to help the project along. Yesterday a letter was received from a woman in New Jersey who sent a donation because the Canteen had helped her lonesome son. A mother in Maine wrote asking what she could do to help. Telegraph | Feb. 2, 1942 Over 400 persons attended the Open House at the Canteen yesterday afternoon and evening, evincing sincere pleasure and admiration of the work being done by the group. Nearly all the visitors, many of them from sur- rounding towns, pitched in and helped with the work, talking to the boys given gifts by the Canteen.
North Platte businesses already were uniting to help the Canteen in this Daily Bulletin ad on Jan. 28, 1942. The North Platte Telegraph
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