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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1945
Page
3
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Clermont locals share Christmas visits and health news in a round of family notes. Norris Olson, at a St Louis mechanic school, spends the holiday with mother Ida Olson while relatives gather across Cedar Rapids Albert Lea and near West Union. Orvin Olson recovers from surgery at Camp McCoy with word of discharge pending.
A Bell Syndicate feature offers tips on correct pronunciation for broadcast ers and speakers. It urges stressing the second syllable in ideas and proper vowel sounds in words like immediate immaculate immense extra and image and cautions against common mispronunciations.
Eva returned to Cedar Rapids Tuesday after spending Christmas at Mrs Emma Olson home. Mr and Mrs Lucian Appelman were guests Christmas day in the Franz Appelman home. A magnet helps pick up pins during sewing, with pins removable and keeping clean. Nylon brushes news notes: over a million nylon paint brushes supplied to the navy, postwar nylon may replace hog bristle brushes in quality lines.
The passage outlines cannibalism as practiced by some primitive peoples, noting it as a respectful disposal of the aged and sick, a cultivated taste for human flesh, ritual requirements, and hunger-driven acts observed in famine contexts. It presents historical views on the topic without endorsing them.
Uplifting tips from Nancy Pepper offer clever storage and garment care ideas. Clip skirts with two wooden pins on a hanger, protect rayon stockings with footlets, secure slip straps with tiny safety pins, and reuse empty milk containers as hat stands.
The 1940 census shows a severe housing shortfall for farms with about two thirds of farm operator homes below standard. If the household head is not a farm operator, roughly six out of seven farm homes are unacceptable. An acceptable house means at least five rooms and a value of $1,000 or more.
Tonight Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo star in Wonder Man a tale of twins with opposing natures and comic complications on Sunday and Monday December 30 and 21 Robt Cummings and Lizabeth Scott headline You Came Along a tender dramatic romance about a returned aviator with limited time and the woman he loves.
A Swedish chemist described a process to derive caffeine, fat, tannin, lubricating oils, and various phenols from coffee. Ground coffee is treated with calcium oxide and catalysts, heated to 500 degrees, and gas passes through condensers separating materials by distillation. From 5070 pounds of unroasted coffee, yields include caffeine, fat, grains, acetone, methyl alcohol, phenol, raw oil, lubricating oil, ammonia, and hydrogen gas, with hydrogen vapor driving the process and low production costs.
The article advises daily dusting with a dry mop and rare washing to extend linoleum life. Avoid oil-based cleaners and gritty powders, wipe spills immediately, use clear or lukewarm soapy water only, rinse well, keep mop nearly dry, wash small sections, and dry fully before applying light self polishing wax.
The Better Vision Institute reports quicker perception for lights directly ahead than for side lights. Experiments measured reaction times with a chronoscope, showing an average of 0.17 seconds for a straight-ahead light versus 0.32 seconds for a side light.
Irish dress linens reappear in stores with new fabric treatments that dramatically reduce wrinkling while preserving texture and weave suppleness. Scientists report processes that enhance crease resistance without sacrificing the material’s beauty.
The text traces Britain’s transformation from part of continental Europe to an island after the Ice Age. It notes Old Stone Age peoples crossing forests and plains, hunting bison mammoths bears and deer, and gathering berries and roots. The sea withdrew as ice receded forming the North Sea and English Channel, isolating Britain.
A survey of twenty one thousand twenty nine medical officers in the armed services finds forty seven percent plan to resume private practice in their former communities after service. The figure highlights potential gaps in veteran medical staffing and regional care continuity.
Washing advice warns two hour soaks loosen dirt but avoid overnight soaking as soil can reenter fibers. For electric washers use seven to ten minutes agitation for badly soiled cottons, five to seven for slightly soiled, three to five for rayons and silks. If not clean in ten minutes, suds should refresh.
The article outlines locating and removing accident hazards in barns. It urges organized storage, securing overhead materials, proper placement of forks scrapers and equipment, and safety features for feed chutes ladders and stairways to prevent falls. It also advises clearing trip hazards and promptly discarding broken implements.
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