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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1940
Page
4
Fragment lists various calendars including religious, danger, art novelties and more with prices advertised at the Echo office, 48tip. The note directs readers to check prices first at the Echo office and mentions a sample line.
A rambling column blends a cherry pie recipe with kitchen hacks to avoid soggy crusts and messy ovens. It covers hot oven technique, funnel tricks, and lattice top work, then shifts to reader notes including a beans dish, a chicken and noodle bake, banana spread, prune whip, and syrup handling tips.
A reader reports making pillows years ago with a mix of goose and duck feathers. On opening them recently, she found the feathers cut into Mildred Wilson bits and wonders what home would cause furnishing this. The writer notes goose feathers are stronger and larger, and feathers are separated by size in factories for pillow filling.
Ruth Ann and Carol, both six, play out roles of mother and teacher as they navigate leadership and obedience in a neighborhood setting. Carol, a retiring child, consents to others’ choices while her mother weighs whether she should assert herself in group play and invite friends over after school to bake cookies.
A study group met Friday afternoon at Mrs. Roy Leuch tenmacher's home on February 9. Mrs. H. B. Gilson led a music project lesson from the music gems, followed by a short playlet about business titled The Bitter with the Sweet.
The Fayette No 4 CT A members use varied methods to exercise sires including bull pens rings and outdoor wires. January teat cows totaled 454 with 82 dry. The average milk yield was 721 pounds and fat 30.2 pounds. Distribution of fat yields ranged from 40 to over 90 pounds across several cows with five top cows led by Harry Turn.
The record lists the ten highest milk yields for the month from herds managed by Iner's Irving Deering's and Gross Bros. It includes Edwin Chenswold R J and G Sh Gin herd with 1053 pounds milk and 48.5 fat, J C Mathews G J herd 11 with 787 milk and 48.1 fat, Irving Deering G and R H herd 36 with 1184 milk and 48.2 fat, and other herds led by M Grafenberg, Roy Learn, Jerry Spencer, Harry Miller, M M Cooney, and Harry Turner with varying milk totals and fat percentages.
Upper Iowa will hold an open house for publishers in northeast Iowa on Friday February 23. Speakers include Don Ried Towa Press manager Des Moines U Barnes Northwood president of the state association and Dick Westerfield of West Union. The program begins at 3 16 PM with music. Dinner at 8 PM features Judge H A Taylor of Waukon as after dinner speaker. At 745 PM the Peacocks meet the Dubuque University Spartans to close the program.
A Salvation Army report notes 116,043 unpaid local officers nationwide, highlighting a strain on corps leadership and potential implications for service delivery and organizational structure.
A rural electrification message promotes wiring homes and suggests interior remodeling to match the new power access. A boxing reference and a joke about a roof's durability advocate Mule-Hide Cor-Du-Roy as a sturdy, weatherproof choice, with sample roofs available for viewing. A light exchange ends with a courtroom style quip about being in a barrel.
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