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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1940
Page
4
Joe Ellis Baker, 24, from Boxville Kentucky, traveled to Evansville Indiana to ask police to help find a wife. He lists criteria including beauty cooking and age under 26, with the crucial requirement of possessing $20,000 to buy a farm.
A statue in Budapest honors Anonymous, a notary who chronicled Hungarian history. The first page of his chronicle bearing his name was lost, prompting the tribute to an unnamed historian.
Contributions from Mrs. Chris Wenger and Mrs. R. V. Brandt share two dessert ideas. Pineapple Fluff combines milk marshmallows pineapple and whipped cream, set on graham crumbs and chilled overnight. Prune pudding uses cooked prunes brown sugar butter eggs flour and soda steamed an hour, served warm with lemon hard sauce. Also included is a Chocolate Upside Down Cake recipe with chocolate, butter, milk, nuts and a water-bath bake.
Farmers in Headland Alabama and the South cultivate one acre grass, cats, soybean pasture, and six acres of peanuts per sow plus two yearly Uttara of bigs. They require 10 bushels of corn and 150 pounds of mineral supplement to fatten hogs, avoiding disease with no permanent hog houses or shade and using temporary shelters and windbreaks as needed.
Sale dates for multiple auctions are announced by Waters and Thompson Auctioneers in Postville Iowa. February listings include West Union Frieden and Chapman near Elgin Ed Shaffer Monona Leath near Monona West Union Russell Enyart near Waukon E Owen near Frankville Mrs Hackett near West Union and Leo Wendland near Hawkeye with several locations and dates in February.
The article notes that gutta percha a sap from trees in Java Malay Sumatra and other tropics and balata from evaporated latex forests in the Amazon districts Ven ezuela Brazil Panama and the British and Dutch Guianas are used for submarine cable insulation.
Tokyo reports Takao Saito resigning from the Minseito after party leaders urged his departure. The move follows his Diet plea for Japanese forces to withdraw from China to pave the Way for Peace, drawing charges of insulting the sacred war aims. Saito, Harvard-educated statesman and lawyer, was elected to parliament nine times.
A reader suggests maintaining leather upholstery by applying olive oil or sewing machine oil twice a year, ideally spring and fall. Let the oil soak overnight, then wipe off excess with a clean dry cloth. Heat from summer sun and winter furnaces dries leather, and oil keeps it soft and pliable.
A parchment wrapped tea leaves package sealed in aluminum foil and placed in a lead case by the Empire Tea Market expansion bureau of London marks the empire's centenary of tea production. The item is stored for a century, with opening date set for 2039.
The Farm Bureau News Letter reports the county hosted its largest vaccination school on Friday at the West Union courthouse. Forty-four men took the examination and only two failed to achieve a passing grade.
Holstein breeders in Fayette Winneshiek and Buchanan counties will meet February 13 at 1 30 p m at the farm bureau office 10 Fayette to plan the district show and activities for 1940. Also notices list tree reforestation programs and species available from the Iowans State College nursery with prices from 2 50 to 6 00 per thousand and including Black Locust Green Ash Black Walnut American Elm Silver Maple Osage Orange Red Oak Burr Oak Cottonwood White Pine and Western Yellow Pine.
Fayette county rural youth group members plan a Feb 13 election rally on the Square. On the Square Deal ticket are Volney Palmer Hawk eye president Charles Webb Ar ington vice president Anna Helen Yauslin Clermont secretary Cecil Snively Fayette treasurer Eilen Baldwin Wadena publicity. Their opponents on another ticket include Otto Brandt Clermont president Thomas Shaffer West Union vice president Jeanette Kiel Fayette secretary Kenneth Medberry Elgin treasurer Meta Leader West Union publicity.
A Texas farm near Colorado City features a tractor that nearly became a mother. A wren built a nest beneath the seat and used the motor heat to warm eggs kept warm by day while the bird waited in a tree and took over feeding duties at night. After hatch, the tractor was brought in at moon to feed the chicks until they could fly.
The International Date Line is described as a flexible line near the 180th meridian that navigators cross to change dates during trans Pacific voyages. It runs north to south, separating Pacific islands so that eastern regions share a US date and western regions share Japan and Australia dates.
Chief C A Knee of the highway safety patrol issued a pedestrian safety list through the Department of Public Safety. The list warns pedestrians to avoid stepping from behind parked cars, weaving through traffic, jaywalking, exiting moving vehicles, and walking on open highways. It emphasizes looking for signals, walking against traffic, and teaching children street safety to reduce crashes and comply with Iowa laws.
Ruby Boyle returned Monday from Chicago where she had gone Friday to reign Saturday as queen of the DePaul university junior prom. The event took place in the Stevens hotel north ballroom with 500 junior class members and guests. Her black net evening gown featured a bouffant skirt, white gardenia corsage, black velvet cloak with mink collar, white taffeta lining, and a silver mesh bag. Her escort was George Tracy.
Twenty four years ago George Bruce wounded and captured an American bald eagle on the Scott Bruce farm west of Long Siding Minnesota. The bird, then all black, grew white head and tail feathers over six years and is kept in a large pen or chicken coop depending on season. It remains as wild as at capture with tame chickens as its main food.
A Pasadena California survey finds most mothers think fathers who avoid the kitchen still can help with other tasks. The study concludes America is achieving home making equality as fathers assume more of the housework.
A collage of quips and lines on recovery, paint, finance, Florida substitutes, social tips, and a comic exchange about a belt and cuff. Mentions of Martin-Senour Paints anchor the ad.
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