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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
2
Serial mystery unfolds with Anne Heywood, publisher’s daughter, entangled in a web of spies. Taussig, Valera, and Gongaro figure in searches, secrets, and staged dinners as Anne uncovers doubtful tourists, hidden rooms, and looming peril across an unsettling Caribbean plot.
Army officer Pete Wilcox rushes into a sugar mill to reach Anne Taussig who teeters on a catwalk above grinding rollers guarded by Diego Gongaro and Senator Taus sig. Behind the danger lies a tangled hint of Miguel Valera and Alvaro Valera as Pete weighs love, loyalty, and potential danger in a tense, atmospheric scene.
From California Pfc Merlin Hellum and Mrs Elaine Hellum arrived to visit his parents in Utah. He will be stationed at Kearns after furlough. Pte Geo H W Mueler, delayed in route, arrived to spend about 15 days with his parents, the Muelers.
In Old Home Week air service uniforms were visible as several men from Elgin returned on furlough. Names include Clarence Schneider Virtus Yack Reuben Schupbach Lawrence Grimm Jim Christ Merlin Hellum and Geo H W Mueller.
Mrs. Donald Larson plans a temporary home at the Ernest Halt residence while her husband Staff Sgt Donald Larson may be deployed overseas. Local visits include meals with the Olson, Amundson, and Erickson families. Allen Olson heads to Burlington for a few days with relatives. Selmer and Louie Erickson head to Minneapolis for the state fair. Willard Wag ner funeral attended by Millard Bilden. Betty and Elaine Holm visit grandparents. Julia Landsgard dined with Henry Olson. Laura Holt returns from Hartland and Worthington visits.
Upper Iowa University is fully accredited by the Iowa State Examining Board and its credits are accepted by the State University of Iowa and other colleges. Graduates are in demand as teachers and accepted at graduate programs. School opens September 11. Register now. adv. V. T. Smith, president.
A dead rat is worth at least four to five dollars to the farmer because, if left alive, it would eat or ruin grain and other produce valued between four and fifty dollars per year.
A wartime tale of Romany Rondeel known as Canteen Ma who ran a Belgian canteen supplying the British with fruit and vegetables, passing messages to Allied agents, while sheltering German soldiers. Her covert network grew from a family farm to a deadly espionage operation aiding the Allies.
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