While scrolling back through the microfiche I found these pictures, drawn by Sada Jones. The artist wasn't on staff - nothing else appears by that name - and a web search only turns up a mention in a list of artists who contributed to a 1938 travel guide to South Dakota.
The surest sign we're in 1943:
In the days before air conditioning:
That's two beach drawings with newspapers. Those were the days.
Girls, I'd like you meet my friend Joe. He's a hopeless drunk who forgot his pants:
Cedar, perhaps the beach women went to when they didn't want to get hit on:
Nokomis, the family beach:
Men wore robes:
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