Old Newspaper Clippings

I love to look at the old newspapers and to glean what I can about the history of a place as well as the lives of the people that lived there. In looking for information on my family I always check newspapers in the area they lived for obituaries and any mention of them that might be in the paper. I know they use to always put in social news like Mrs Wilder and son to visit her parents in South Dakota and so on. I look first for obituaries in the paper of the area they lived in but also I skim through to see if there name is mentioned otherwise.  I have found interesting facts about what my ancestors lives were like by reading the old papers.

I recently was given clippings out of the old Chicago Times that had announcements and pictures from when Pres. Roosevelt died but on the back of some of those clippings I have found mention of others in the military and deaths. I decided that I would transcribed the ones that I could in hopes that it would help someone looking for their ancestors. There is not many but hopefully it will help someone. The only problem is I know the name of the paper but actual dates of the clippings are not there. All are about the funeral and death of Pres. Roosevelt so that gives us a time frame. If anyone reads this post and finds that it mentions a ancestor I would be glad to copy the page that I have transcribed and send to them.

Here are the names out of the Chicago Times:no date but some time around Apr 1945

Noble J Puffer Cook County superintendent of schools picture is included
Eugene L. Wyman college division winner oratory champion  picture is included
William G Ehler high school champion oratory contest  picture is included

John B Herboth son of Mr. and Mrs J B Herboth promoted to Colonel with picture
John Tuzinski talking about war experience
S/Sgt Le Roy E Laffey reported as missing in action
Pfc Joseph E Czuban wounded in action
Pfc Melvin Daskal son of Rabbi and Mrs B A Daskal home on furlough recovering from wounds
S/Sgt Harry S Poturalski talking about war
Lt William Brady Liberator bomber returns to unit in Italy
Sgt Ed Nelson artilleryman gives his address
William Fortier allegedly slugged by John Comise

Chicago Times April 13, 1945
Lt William C Lewis death notice

Chicago Times in Apr 1945
M/Sgt Lester M Kuehl so of Mr and Mrs George Kuehl awarded medal of heroism
S/ Sgt James Coleman, and S/Sgt John W Kurtz receive battlefield commissions as 2nd Lieutenants


Next week I will list the names that were in the Chicago Times Apr 13, 1945 of the wounded, prisoner of war and killed in the war. It is a long list