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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1946
Page
4
One Chester White purebred stock hog offered for sale. Seller Oscar Baumgartner contact dial 2701 Elgin. Price listed as 16 cents.
A summary of farm guidance covering October feeder cattle shipments record highs, Iowa egg production trends, effects of cold water on livestock, winter garden tool care, oat crop usage for feed, brooding sow rations, manure as fertilizer, corn-soybean acreage shifts, all pullet flock program benefits, Master Swine Producers results, feed price comparisons, winter rat control, and a glean-up campaign to curb rat losses.
Reading notes explore tricky words with dual meanings and pronunciations. The piece examines anathema and other heteronyms, plus biweekly and shelled as examples of vocabulary quirks across English usage.
A fragment discusses the word Mrs and its relation to mistress. It explains the feminine form and pronunciation. It notes that Mrs cannot be pluralized and contrasts usage with Misses for unmarried women.
An Iowa Denison woman woke to smoke in bed and found bedding on fire after using a heating pad for rheumatism. She escaped unharmed. Reports from Dunlap note Laurence Heller lost two fingers and Edmund Smith fractured all fingers on his right hand. In Fenton, Bob Wells suffered severe burns in a trailer fire while filling a gasoline stove. Larry Hanson and Johnny Thompson in Newton are linked to a rifle incident. Johnny remains in critical condition in Newton hospital. Cattle and hog prices are seen easing from current peaks as meat production nears winter highs.
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