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East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 6, May, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting the names and locations of 19 East Sweden area servicemen; describing area V-E Day services; commentating on food shortages while also reporting that more than 1200 disobedient prisoners of war have been placed on bread and water for more than a week and "are put to work gardening to raise their own food in part"; providing a local calendar of events; and characterizing the Germans as self-styled "godless supermen" wh… more
Date: May 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
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Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 7, June, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting changes in locations and duties of servicemen affected by V-E Day; giving details of social, community, and business happenings; providing the yield per acre of the Prisoner of War Camp's oat field and stating that many of the prisoners of war have been "evacuated" in labor groups of 15 to other places; reporting that the McCulloch County drive to collect used clothing for Europe has exceeded its quota; and expressing… more
Date: June 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 8, July, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing military updates, including the news that Pvt. Billy Gallaway, a former prisoner of war in Germany, has returned home; commentating, after two women joined the thresher crew, that women "do take the places of men"; reporting on the extensive damage and one death resulting from "The Cyclone" of June 18; expressing gratitude that the constitution for world peace has been written, including a "provision for codification… more
Date: July 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anston T.
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Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 9, August, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing more local news than military updates and revealing that area ministers are making plans for a V-J Day but that plans are "(C)ensored for the present"; announcing the impending closing of Curtis Field and the Prisoners of War Camp; and making a metaphorical comparison of different types of souls to different types of soils.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anston T.
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Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 1, December, 1944

Description: The first issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, explaining the purpose of the Tidings to be communication with the troops of World War II; sending individual holiday greetings from the men of the congregation; and containing a sermon that encourages an "All Out" commitment of both the troops and the congregation to "restore God's peace on earth" and to "win the spiritual conflicts between right and wrong on the battlefields of the soul."
Date: December 1944
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 2, January, 1945]

Description: An issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing a sermon about "resolutions and revolutions" and sending New Year's greetings to the servicemen from the church's "Mothers, Wives, Sisters etc." that were written while the church members were gathered at the "old meeting place - School House" to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
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Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission
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