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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1947
Page
4
Classified text shows variable rates for want ads and multiple small sale notices in Elgin. Items include a piano sale, fence posts, cats, seed, hay, planters, rug cleaning notices, and farm supplies with contact details and prices where provided. The notices reflect local commerce and service offers with postal and phone notes.
Iowa lawmakers face final week as adjournment nears. The session contemplates clock stopping to preserve pay while bills on salaries, budgets, and state institutions are weighed. A postal card asking lawmakers to go home stands as a humorous aside amid routine petitions.
The Purple and White Tattler notes seniors held tryouts for their senior play "A Date With Judy." Mrs. Schori and assistants Mr. Luce and Mr. Robinson picked cast members including Judy Avis Lou Mark and others. Comments mix school life with student profiles and classroom activities.
Eighth graders study cell growth and plant life in science and examine the growth of manufacturing in geography. Readings include James Watt and the steam engine, Eli Whitney and the cotton gin, Samuel Slater and cotton manufacturing, and Elias Howe and the sewing machine.
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