Christmas in Wartime at the Ames Farm
Mary Ames recounts a wartime Christmas 1942 filled with family love and sacrifice. The Ames family plans modest gifts, war bonds, and helping others, while adapting decorations and traditions to support the war effort and reflect the era's spirit. Children receive simple joy and practical toys, with emphasis on shared duties and devotion. The piece notes Iowa’s record corn crop and rising pig weights as contextual backdrop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ames
Ames
John
Bob
Betty
Mary
Iowa Sees No Feed Shortage With Bigger Corn Crop
With Iowa’s record 1942 corn harvest, grain feed will not be scarce next year. Farmers can improve repairs by organizing tools. Soybeans benefit from cottonseed and linseed mills crushing them. Self feeding pregnant sows may ease labor shortages, with bulky mixtures of ground corn, oats, alfalfa or red clover hay, and a protein supplement. gilts to be fed separately from older sows.
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Iowa
Plenty of Room Yet at Elgin May Be Blocked by Defense Rush
A Long Beach, California letter dated November 11 complains the Los Angeles post office is clogged with defense workers and class mail, leaving no vacancies in Elgin area apartments. The writer urges eastern ads to attract new residents and notes a bright beach day with high costs for butter eggs and meat.
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Want
Long Beach
Calif
Munholland Apt
East Ocean
Los Angeles
California
S. K. Langsdale
Bartosh of Fort Atkinson Receives Five Year Term
John Bartosh, a Fort Atkinson contractor, pleaded guilty to an attempt to commit manslaughter in an assault on his wife. Judge T H Goheen imposed the maximum sentence of five years in prison. Bartosh alleged intoxication and claimed no memory of the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bartosh
Fort Atkinson
T. H. Goheen
Bartosh
Real Estate Transfers Reported in Two Weeks Ending November 28 1942
W J Rogers abstract office records list transactions Hugo Hackmann and wife Gladys to Tillie Swenson WD 1500 part of B Clermont Lew Gruver and wife Mary to Glennie A and George E dais WD 50 Ls 11 and 12 B9 Hackmanns Add Elgin.
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W. J. Rogers’ Abstract
Hugo Hackmann
Gladys
Tillie Swenson
Clermont
Lew Gruver
Mary
Glennie A
George E. Dais
Hackmann
Elgin
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IHC
Torkelson Bros
Elmer Pinney
Bridge
West Elgin
Fibber McGee and Molly
the Avalon
the Echo
Mary Haas
Ethel Rennison
Clarence Schneider
Echo-Enterprise
Ben Schori
Larson’i
Nsulation Co
Panama
SoPranusies Baumgartner Jewelry & Electric Store
Elgin, Iowa
Riverside Dairy Farm
Jacob Gehring, Sr
Paul Waters
Postville
J. J. Phillips
Dial
Fred Dennler
Echo Office
Bolsan
Co. M
Kneeland
Pat
Elgin Oil Company
Clamer
Veer
Parents' Magazine
Christian Better Homes & Gioms
Pial
Torbay
Post Office
West Union
The
Boy Scouts of America
Boys Life Tr
Boys’ Life
Park Ave
New York
Minnesota
Weibel Mill CO
Elgin Farmers Coop
Max Medberry, Mer
Sonny
Palmist
Schori& Kusterler. CO
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