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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1943
Page
1
A handwritten collage from Rich's column includes Iowa weather contrasts with California reports, farmer plans for the coming season, a note on a three month aircraft factory stint, and letters from service members. It touches on home news priority for troops, COC references, and a quip about Swiss cheese odor.
A fragment from a local paper columns piece mentions a mistaken identification of a truck driver as General Hauling. It references a bill in Iowa that would share liquor-store profits with towns, estimating about a thousand dollars for Elgin, and notes skepticism it will pass. The text extols the value of local papers over city papers for community news and urges subscription.
Large stocks of oats and corn on Tewa farms as of April 1 1948 exceeded averages. Corn totaled 357 192 090 bushels, 7 percent above year earlier and 5 percent above 1932 41 average, surpassed only in 1940 and 1941. Oats stood at 80 574 000 bushels, above 1940 and 10 year averages. Iowa wheat holdings reflect CCC feed wheat and orderly marketing. Rare math correction note from Simpson College about Ripley’s calculation differs from Emmons by 11 121 111 000 009 000 000. A large county road maintainer fell 20 feet into Nodaway River near Corning when a bridge collapsed. driver Glade Haven escaped with minor injuries.
In a wartime appeal, leaders stress the need to raise 13 billion dollars this month to keep the war machine moving. Volunteers will visit communities urging citizens to buy War Bonds at banks post offices or sale sites, urging immediate action and duty.
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