The Americans pulled a Frank Merriwell when [St. Louis Browns pitcher] George Caster smashed a home run out of the park with a man on in the last half of the ninth, after the Nationals had taken the lead in the top half of the same frame. … To start the day’s festivities, Gene Slattery auc- tioned his shirt for the Canteen. The high bidder was Herstedt, Paxton, who immediately placed it up for sale again, after turning the price of $15 over and Pat McHugh kept the ball rolling with a $10 bid. Telegraph | Nov. 4, 1943 “Oh Boy! What a Day!” was just one of the expressions heard last night at the Canteen as some 30 tired women from the American Legion Auxiliary and the Sunshine club washed the last dish and dragged themselves out the door about ten o’clock, after one of the largest days of service at the Canteen. The last train did not arrive until after nine o’clock, and that with several extras during the day probably saw as many men to the Canteen as has passed through in any one day since it opened. One of the ladies in charge said today that at times they wondered how they managed to keep things going day after day. The generous amount of supplies donated by the two organizations fell far short of meeting the demand and a considerable amount of food items were purchased by the Canteen.
him twenty-five turkeys were donated to the Canteen and members of the parish baked 110 pies. They also donated 30 quarts of cranberries, 10 fruit cakes, 500 boxes of ice cream, 10 quarts of cream, two hams, 24 cases of pop, 50 cartons of cigarettes, one box of apples, one crate of oranges [and] 30 dozen cookies. The ladies of the Baptist church gave $37.50 and three birthday cakes. Twenty ladies from Hershey worked, donating five sheet cakes, four birthday cakes, 66 loaves bread, five pounds butter, 11 pounds coffee, one gallon pressed chicken, one roast goose, one gallon pickles, three quarts cream [and] six pies. Seventeen ladies and 10 men from Roscoe also assisted and gave 600 bottles milk, 80 dozen cookies, 10 quarts cream, 1,500 buns, 12 pies, five hams, six pounds butter, three birthday cakes and 25 pounds sugar. The Canteen’s second birthday and third Christmas would have made December 1943 busy enough. But it was about to be coupled with an event that would transport North Platte into living rooms nationwide. Telegraph | Nov. 27, 1943 Major General F.E. Uhl of the [Army] Seventh Service command today expressed his personal appreciation of the work of the North Platte Serviceman’s Canteen and revealed that a citation
This full-page ad appeared in The Telegraph on Oct. 29, 1943. The North Platte Telegraph
Like the previous Thanksgiving, Father Patrick McDaid of St. Patrick Catholic Church took the lead in supplying turkeys for the visiting troops to gobble down. Telegraph | Nov. 26, 1943 Service men passing through North Platte yester- day did not miss their Thanksgiving turkey, due to the thoughtfulness of Father McDaid. Through
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