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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1944
Page
4
A reel of small-town notices covers want ad rates and payment terms, event invitations, hay for sale, free digestion sample, and auto accident insurance. It mentions Kay Kyser’s Around the World at the Avalon, a list of local businesses, and a note on the U.S. Supreme Court’s origins in 1789.
About 11 516 veterans applied for jobs with the U S Employment Service demonstration program in January 1944 six thousand four hundred forty one found work immediately. The service will be expanded to USES local offices nationwide allowing veterans to shop for jobs. Placements of handicapped veterans are expected to rise significantly with better job placement needs and 2500 vacancies arise monthly.
Beginning May 1 a new shoe stamp will be issued and Airplane stamp 2 in War Ration Book Three may be used to buy one pair of rationed shoes. Airplane stamp 1 stays valid indefinitely and Stamp 18 in Book One expires April 30. From May 1 to May 20, children's low priced shoes up to 1.60 per pair in sizes 8 1 2 through 12 and Misses and little boys shoes in sizes 12 1 2 through 3 will be ration free.
A survey of about 3000 farmers shows nearly half faced no trouble buying 43 essential items from flashlights to cream separators. Items with increased supply include batteries, wrenches, grease guns, floor brooders, and cream separators. farmers may borrow engine and tractor fuel tanks from suppliers. Also advice urges housewives to reuse bags, carry their own baskets, and shop with unwrapped small items to ease shortages. Prices have risen gradually for many goods since late 1943, with food prices down 6 percent recently and overall cost of living down 0.8 percent in early 1944.
The current fuel year ends August 31 instead of September 30. Beginning September 1, all period fuel oil coupons after they become valid will remain good through August 31, 1945.
Round-Up lists eggs beets carrots potatoes citrus marmalade lard frozen vegetables baked beans canned beans and peanut butter as plentiful foods. Spare stamp 37 in War Ration Book Four and sugar stamp 37 for 1844 canning sugar. March weather with rains and cold has delayed farm work in nearly all states. As Allied successes grow, expect heavy food demands to continue.
The period notes that new factory seconds passenger tubes may be bought without a rationing certificate and motorists eligible for used grade 111 tires may now obtain new factory seconds tires. Waste paper collections rise but lag estimates, and Bunas production grows enabling May 1 unrestrict ed use of grades A and C synthetic rubber camelback in rebty?
The first Roman dictator was a high official appointed by the senate for a term of six months. He could not touch public money, could not leave Italy, and could not ride through Rome on horseback without the people’s consent.
Common in green feeds Vitamin E is necessary for growing chicks and breeding hens, but it occurs commonly in green feeds and grain germs and consequently is present in adequate amounts in all practical poultry rations if they contain grain and green feed.
The passage notes that cocoa was valued like gold in 1880, with beans circulating as currency in parts of Middle America. It mentions treasuries containing oversized chocolate bars and describes how the beans, called indigenous "egins," would spoil and lose value rather than remain hoarded by misers.
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