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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1930
Page
3
Two Minute Talks explains how Mrs Briggs expands Bill’s vegetable palate using broccoli and other greens. It provides simple recipes for cauliflower allemande with cheese sauce, molded spinach with beets and eggs, and a versatile vegetable platter, highlighting colorful, nutritious meal ideas for families.
Ram lambs face discrimination on the market due to development and appearance. About three quarters of native market lambs remain uncastrated and many are undocked, while range lambs profit from docking and castration. USDA guidance on castration and docking available. Also noted: soda harms vitamins in vegetables. Winneshiek county jurors count reaches ninety for May term starting May 12 with Judge H E Taylor. Casten case anticipated.
A column of humorous maxims and anecdotes on daily life. Notes about courage and trouble, courting success, a loot of wry jokes about wives, doctors and in laws. A colored boy in a cemetery mutters about a tombstone inscription, delivering a final pun.
The column offers practical farm guidance on pig vaccination and cholera prevention, chick and dairy feeding, seasonal lime and alfalfa planting, parasite control, and safe weaning practices. It emphasizes cost savings, proper feed balance, mineral supplies, drainage for alfalfa, and pasture management, ending with a local nod to Elgin.
A string of light humor from a bygone day features a child named Bobbie describing being at the awkward age too old to cry and too young to cuss. A Rastus exchange jokes about a skunk. A nurse discussion with Mrs Soansough follows a doctor’s warning, and a graduation day quip ends with a photographer telling Goofus to close his mouth.
A rainy dawn saw Step by Step A Roaslan marched to execution as Bolshevik soldiers paraded him. The doomed man quipped about the rain while a squad retorted their need to march back. A fragmentary exchange about a show and shopgirl dialogue follows, ending with an ad cue to open gates to new customers.
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