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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1945
Page
4
A historical notice outlines advertising rates: up to 25 words cost 25 cents per insertion. For 26 or more words, 1 cent per word. An additional handling charge of 10 cents per week applies if replies come to the office.
Notice states old newspapers available at the Echo office for five cents per bundle with a stock of office supplies and prices claimed as low as or lower than mail order houses. Readers are urged to inquire for prices and comparison.
A historical note on a lapel button signaling honorable discharge from the armed forces. The text explains wearers earned the nation’s respect and recalls the impact of service, including World War II context and references to MacArthur. It also mentions wartime dehydration plant growth and mortar powder manufacturing notes.
The Iowa plan focuses on state aid to schools and the future of the state superintendent role. The Iowa State Education association backs an appointive system, while the current superintendent supports electing a leader. Legislative battles loom as factions clash over this key education reform.
Cpl Kenneth Neu of Mason City a former assistant attorney general was discharged and rumored to run for state office on the Republican ticket William F McFarlin of Montezuma another former assistant had been serving as a Red Cross field vensor in Okinawa and has returned to Iowa possibly entering private business
Maj Karl Fischer on leave as public safety commissioner likely will not be home soon. It had been expected he might be back early in 1946.
Grand jurors report January 7 at Arlington P B Burington Clermont J R Brorby Elgin Max Medberry and Charles Learn in Wadena Harry Davis Petit jurors report January 22 at Wadena Ernestine Herrling Elgin Silas Wilson Clermont Mae Crowe Josie Gilbert Harry Gunderson Arlington J D Patterson Frank Blackenship also listed. Divorce Granted Wise couple split. custody to defendant, $25 weekly support until children reach 18, remarriage allowed for either party. Pleads Guilty Kappmeyer of Oelwein fined $25 and costs for reckless driving. Marriage Licenses issued: Koch Junge West Union. Kaeppel Hoepner Hawkeye Dean Brownell Allenstein Maynard Cornish Anderman Grimm Metzger.
Farmers receive practical guidance on winter cattle care, hay quality, and feeding routines. Articles cover milk handling, cream freezing, alfalfa vitamin content, corn yields, seed shortages for alfalfa and clover, and storage temperatures for cream, plus planning for spring plantings and barn construction.
A concise appraisal by Jack DeMent and H C Dake of the Chemical Publishing Co book Uranium and Atomic Power. The 335 page 1945 edition priced at $4.00 explains atomic energy basics, uranium minerals analysis, uranometry methods, and includes a new section on the atomic bomb with practical guidance for laymen students and chemists.
The text asserts that Scandinavians made the first white contact with North America. It mentions Eric the Red discovering Greenland in 983 and Leif Erikson sailing in 1900 with missionaries toward the continent, landing possibly between Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, but notes no permanent colonies were established and suggests five centuries of no European contact afterward.
In a legendary journey from Mexico City to the Gulf of Honduras, Cortez and his party survived jungle hardships thanks to plentiful jzicepzapotl, a plant later famed as the source of chewing gum.
Members of the British House of Commons receive about 800 pounds a year plus travel facilities, roughly 2,424 dollars given the 4.04 dollar pound. The pound’s value is stated as about 4.04 dollars. Lords members remain unpaid.
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