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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1942
Page
2
A feature from the Rowe Typing book offers practical tips on overcoming procrastination. The piece urges taking immediate first steps to finish tasks, noting time saved by starting earlier and avoiding unnecessary delay.
A rhythmic verse satire catalogs a string of consumer anxieties about toothpaste, dentifrice, soap, soap products, cholesterol pills, and cosmetics. The speaker jokes that daily routines rely on various products to avoid bad outcomes, ending with a quip about dieting and yeast.
The Elgin basketball season opened Thursday December 3 with two boys teams facing Randalia. First team lost 30 to 10 and the second team 11 to 4. A hopeful note on improvement follows, with a next game at Clermont on December 15 and encouragement for a strong turnout. Also announced are plans for the operetta Days O Kerry Dancing to be performed Friday December 18 in the high school gym.
Creditor notice for Cecil J. Buck of Jenning's Flower Shop Oelwein Fayette County Iowa that Buck assigned all nonexempt property to Assignee B L Belt for creditor benefit. File claims sworn to by three months from first publication November 5 1942 in Fayette County District Court West Union Iowa.
Timely farm guidance from Iowa State College specialists notes tractors need winterization like the year’s nine autos. Short winter jobs require careful servicing. drain crankcase, switch to lighter oil such as SAE 20 or SAE 10 for below zero, and clean air filters. Add commercial antifreeze to the radiator.
An advertisement touts a mineralized tankage supplement for hogs. It claims the product is one of the best corn-based feeds on the market and 100 percent digestible.
The entry lists components for an industrial mix including Tankage oil meal linseed oil meal soy bean oil meal grog limestone bone meal glauber salts oxide of iron charcoal and salt.
Legal notice outlines a civil action filed by Independence Produce Co against J Mulford as manager in Elgin Iowa. The case concerns a dispute likely over business or contract matters. Court events and deadlines are to be determined by the filing district and local procedures.
Guidelines advise draining fuel and oil, cleaning sediment bowls and lines, removing spark plugs to coat cylinders with oil, turning the engine over, and storing in a closed shed. If overhaul is needed, take to a reliable service man early in winter for thorough reconditioning and repainting during the overhaul.
A member of the French Academy of Medicine spoke at a Paris rat extermination meeting recommending rats as a meat option. He stated rats are better than pork and rabbit and urged informing the public that rat meat is of high quality to boost the meat ration and support the extermination campaign.
A note describes Canada as a self governing dominion, an autonomous community in the British empire, equal in statute yet limited by allegiance to the crown. It emphasizes a constitutional status with self rule under the Crown.
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