Notice to sell second-hand school books at O Neill Drug Store
People with school books to sell should bring them to the O Neill Drug Store before August 10. Books not accepted after that date. The Avalon screening of It Happened Tomorrow is next Wednesday and Thursday, with two courtesy tickets reserved for Sid Nutting of Clermont. tickets available at our office.
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the Avalon
H. 8S
Steele
Echo Office
the Angels Sing
Avalon
the Echo
Frank Gehring
Echo
Torkelson Bros
Elgin
O'Neill Drug Store
The
Sid Nutting
Clermont
Falks Visit Camp Huaga Daughters Return from Counselor Stint
Elgin residents Mr and Mrs G H Falk drove to Camp Huaga near Walker to collect daughters Georgana and Karolyn. Georgana spent six weeks as apprentice counselor and Karolyn two weeks. Local families hosted or visited others including Len Simek Clemont Sgt Keith Thoma and Emma Knudtson as well as Sam Howard Hans Frederick Melvin Hanson and L L Kiple and guests from Springville Water.
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G. H. Falk
Camp Huaga
Walker
Georgana
Karolyn
Len Simek
Clermont
Keith Thoma
Laurence Knudtson
Emma Knudtson
Hans Frederick
Melvin Hanson
Inflation Signals Grow in Farm Sector This Year
The end of the second quarter shows signs of inflation in farming with demand deposits in country banks rising 28 percent due to government funds. The average per acre value of farm real estate increased 15 percent since last year. Quarterly cash receipts from marketings rose six percent while prices farmers pay for inputs rose five percent, including interest and taxes.
Potato Prices Rise At Shipping Point In August
OPA increases maximum prices for potatoes at the shipping point by 90 cents a hundred pounds across 16 states to offset reduced yield from drought. Retail cost of potatoes grown in these states climbs about one cent per pound.
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OPA
Beefs To Be Ration-Free Next Week Amid Tire Refurbish Plan
Farm vehicles may use used truck or passenger tires as spares to keep equipment in service. Beginning Monday August 14 beef is ration free except for commercial, good, and choice steaks and roasts.
Harvests in Britain and Italy contrast
Reports show German POWs in Britain volunteering for harvest work with pay of six pence to one shilling a day. In Northern Italy, patriots drove occupiers from a village and seized a ready harvest bound for Germany. The wartime medical note cites syphilis treatment keeping 125,000 men fit for service and making 140,000 others available.
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Normandy
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
OPA Ends Special Gasoline Line Rations After Aug 15
OPA announces no further special gasoline line rationing for travel to Victory Gardens after August 15. Retail prices for some cookies crackers toast and crumbs will rise slightly due to regulatory changes. Edna Hunsberger leaves for a two week Cambridge Massachusetts visit with Lt Harold Albrecht. Mr and Mrs M Peterson and family of Postville dine with the Harringtons. P J Anderson attends brother Louis Anderson's funeral in Canton South Dakota then visits Carl Holstenson in Inwood. Want ads still effective.
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OPA
Victory Gardens
P. J. Anderson
Canton
Louis Anderson
Carl Holstenson
Inwood
Woman Tricks To Look Younger With Simple Makeover
A thoughtful guide outlines tactics for mature women to appear five years younger. Tips include lifting hair at the temples to soften aging lines, choosing colors for a glowing complexion, avoiding solid black, updating slang, and staying aware of current youth trends and popular culture.
Expert Says Good Vision Vital to Child Welfare
Educators in the United States focus on children's visual equipment as studies link defective vision to delayed learning, headaches, irritability, poor social behavior, and truancy. M J Julian of the Better Vision Institute notes eyesight affects both physical and mental development, with many reform school inmates reportedly having vision defects.
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United States
M. J. Julian
Better Vision Institute
Julian
Lighted streets cut Detroit deaths in traffic
Public Lighting commission chief L J Schrenk cites Detroit records showing high visibility lighting saved lives. He notes more than 100 people alive thanks to 31 miles of illuminated streets and a drop from 7 to 1 to 1 3 to 1 in the night to day fatality ratio after modern lighting was installed.
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L. J. Schrenk
Public Lighting Commission
Detroit
Schrenk
Schrenck
Young Surgeon Proposes Darning Principle For Vessels
Sidney Smith Jr of Chicago, 25, earns medical praise for a new method to heal ruptured blood vessels. He uses sugar rods coated with oil at a darning ball to stitch vessels, then the sugar dissolves, leaving a sewn vessel. He holds an MD from the University of Chicago and received the Harry Ginsburg Memorial prize for this work.
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Sidney Smith Jr
Chicago
Smith
University of Chicago
Harry Ginsburg Memorial
Brilliant Fathers and Ordinary Sons
The text notes that brilliant fathers often imply ordinary sons due to genetic mixing. It asserts that a child inherits half of their cellular makeup from the mother and half from the father, highlighting balanced parental genetic contribution.
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Want
Sam Yost
Dial
Court House
West Union
Towa
A. S. Morse, Co
Dexter
Ford
Larson Roofing Co
Iowa
A3tie
Amity
R. P. Strauch
Funk
Clermont Township
Andrew Dummermuth
Glen E. Yates
National Farm Loan Association
John P. Camp
Groth, Produce CO
Postville
Elgin Echo
Justip
Cargill
C. J. Molford Dial
Dexter Electric
Feller’s Hardware
West Elgin
Echo Office Supplies Department
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
Rites
Echo-Enterprise
Lewis Thoma
Springville
Max Thoma
Sgt
Sam Howard
Ed Boleyn
L. L. Kiple
Hans Grether
Lloyd Swartiey
Maynard Lantz
Amun
Edna Hunsberger
Cambridge
Mass
Harold Albrecht
M. Peterson
C. J. Harrington
West Union Rendering Works
Enterprise
Weasepaper
Uncle Sam
Ellendale
N. D
WAC
Martin-Senour
Elgin Ip Armers Coop
Medberry
Elgin, Iowa
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