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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
2
The 18th annual reunion of Gottlieb and Marie Whittenbaugh descendants met at Maynard park Sunday with sixty attendees. Officers elected included Will Whittenbaugh as president and Chas Whittenbaugh as vice president. The group planned for the 1942 gathering at the same park.
A mother creates a personalised dressing table for Mary using three boxes and a board, with a kidney shaped glass top. Features include swing out arms for storage, mounted upholstery snaps for the drapery, a floral fabric, quilted top, a painted box finish, and a repurposed piano bench stool.
Des Moines guests Mr and Mrs Clarence Boleyn visit the Sam Boley n and Eliza Habeger family. Chanute Field airman Irving Olson from Rantoul spends weekend with parents. Duluth caregiver Mrs. Lloyd Swartley visits Fayette relatives. Webster City visitors Mr and Mrs W J Grove stay for a week. Yellowstone trip for Supt C J Robinson and Donna. Torkelson family visits Clermont with Minnesota Swenson relatives. James Hoak and Jane Arnold of Manchester dine with Chris Schweitzer. bride Floyd Arnold's daughter wed Sunday at Manchester M E church. Snow in July shocks Clarion residents as frost is dumped into streets.
Dugan Laird of Rockwell City and his companion Dennis McDonald began a bicycle tour of the east but found cycling too slow and completed their trip by hitchhiking, according to notes from their journey.
The Scottish island of Staffa, Europe’s only uninhabited resort, attracts thousands of visitors each year while remaining uninhabited by residents. No one lives on Staffa, keeping it a unique, visitor-focused destination.
The amoeba, a one celled animal life that multiplies by dividing, is said to have neither parents nor offspring. Scientists note it breathes without lungs or gills and possesses a basic nervous system.
Mrs. M A E Loss explains wrinkling results from water loss and skin shrivel. Quick cooking in a small amount of boiling water with no cover preserves color and minimizes wrinkles, while overcooking increases wrinkling.
Nomads solved their household cleanliness problem by pulling up stakes and relocating when camps became unclean, a simple strategy reflecting nomadic life.
A 150 pound person walking at 2.6 mph uses about 70 calories per mile. To burn the energy of a five cent chocolate bar he would need four miles, five to seven miles for a sundae, and about six and a half miles for a mince pie.
Natives at Hula on the Papua coast plan a new church using tons of timber from forests and coral from reefs. A government donated light tower will guide vessels, and a hospital will be built from material removed to make way for the new church.
Private John V. Prochaska of Fort Sheridan is on 30 day furlough to operate a threshing machine for his neighbors from Duffle Bay to Grain Bay Azalia. With oats and wheat ripe 67 neighbors requested leave. He is pictured carrying a bag of threshed wheat on a neighbor’s farm as farm labor shortages widen nationwide.
An Elgin Iowa page segment highlights insurance agent services and heating systems. It promotes the Green Colonial Furnace with a claim of low emissions, and urges shoppers to visit Lehman’s Hardware for the unit. Torkelson Bros McCormick Deering, Chrysler and Plymouth cars are also advertised with Gen uine IHC parts emphasized.
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