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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
7
Fragmentary note discusses travel options by train and car, offering a noon return or evening train option. Mentions patients and twenty years in one location, and that they grind their own lenses.
A mix of town happenings from Elgin includes update on Mrs. Mary Skarshoug after an appendicitis attack, a Ladies' Cemetery Association meeting scheduled for May 4 at 8:00 pm, and reports of visitors, family visits, and local trades. Also noted are Red Cross shipments, a Seattle shipbuilding record, a funeral attendance in Decorah, and brief social and business items from the region.
The page highlights two devices cutting waste in wartime food production. A North Dakota shipyard photo shows a bacon slicing machine reducing waste. another image features a potato peeler that leaves only the skin. Allied demands surge to 160 million pounds monthly.
Patriotism spurred 2,000,000 Americans to plant gardens last year per USDA estimates. War gardens ease rail and wartime supply strains, reducing export needs for wheat meat fats and sugar. Department of Agriculture offers free leaflets on garden planning from Washington upon request.
Weather notes recall heavy snow in April 1849 and a later thaw while Liberty Day events loom. The Red Cross flag ceremony and food salad are set for the opera house with Rev. Hi ortholm delivering the principal address. War Savings stamps totals reach 626,213.98 dollars in the week ending April 6, and Burleson faces criticism over alleged profits from convict labor on Texas cotton lands.
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