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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1943
Page
2
A school publication notes editor Betty Schneider and a staff including Violet Landegard and Verma Groth. It covers classroom reports, citizenship lessons, English and geography work, a circus by first graders, 100 percent spelling in first grade, letters writing study by sophomores, alumni news, bake sale for a group, and reflections on senior year preparations and staff changes.
At Uiciy regular meeting held at Charlotte Tebbe’s home, Camp Fire Girls organized a bingo session to wrap up the gathering.
An amendment to Selective Service regulations effective March 1 prohibits local boards from publishing lists of selected registrants. No information on registrants or calls can be released until the induction station returns the delivery list, after which local boards may publish a second list showing names addresses and the branch of service for each inducted man.
A giant holly plant, planted by Nevie Custis, George Washington’s adopted daughter, is named among Americas famed trees. The Audley estate in Audley Virginia hosts the tree, placed just weeks before her 1846 death. Washington city contains six such hall of fame trees within its limits.
About 15 000 radio receiving sets are in use in Portugal though the country has no commercial broadcasting stations. The note highlights the rural and domestic listening habits amid a lack of licensed stations.
The soupfin shark yields a liver rich in vitamin A with oil content between 25 and 70 percent. The liver typically weighs about 10 percent of the fish's total mass, highlighting its value beyond the fish itself.
A Treasury letter from an actual communication reveals Leonora and Miss Simp melera discussing duty and privilege to invest at least ten percent of income in War Bonds. The scene portrays a busy woman's office and household duties as she aims to join the 10 percent Club.
A White Leghorn hen at Clarence Vincent's Lacona farm laid a double egg with a smaller egg inside. The inner egg was complete with soft shell and air and measured about two Tobin's eggs in size.
A medical ambulance failed en route to a Cedar Rapids hospital injuring Mrs. A. L. Dean of Tipton with a broken collarbone a deep head wound and severe bruises while Mrs. J. W. Dean sat with her. The crash occurred as they were being transported.
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