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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
1
The piece mocks government orders renaming clothing terms noting that women’s outside wear resembling men’s pants is now called a slack while trousers lose the ending s. It jokes the WPB also defines a play suit as shorts with a top attached or detached.
A miscellany from the centennial year 1943 includes local notes from Prole and nearby Iowa towns. Highlights cover church remodelling, coal transport talk, fox traps in Mariah county, a bridge collapse near Crawford county, a 22 pound coon catch, a 1917 auto accident warrant cashed after 27 years, and farm mishaps with a cow injuring a man.
Dec 12 notes include Harry Keiser returning from Des Moines to visit family. Decorah reports Mrs Will Cooley and two sons ill with flu. Hilda Strauch arrives from Minneapolis for holiday visit.
Clean eggs cost about ten cents more per dozen than dirty eggs. The winter ration for breeding ewes should center on legume hay. Corncobs in bedding for trucks and shipping cars cause injuries to livestock on the way to market. Farm livestock and poultry are expected to rise about ten percent by Jan 1, 1944, while feed supplies may shrink. Iowa pork fourte en million pounds is condemned yearly due to avian tuberculosis linked to infected poultry. Kansas and Nebraska alfalfa seed may be needed this coming season.
Practical guidance states that nearly all tractors should be operated on gasoline during cold weather months. The recommendation applies even to tractors designed to operate on low grade fuels in normal field conditions.
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