The Purple and White Tattler Elgin School weekly
A school newspaper produced by Elgin High School pupils. It lists staff roles including Anna Mae Schupbach as feature writer and Hazel Gilbertson as sports editor, with entries on leisure time, grade topics, and student notes. March items include birthdays, class updates, and humorous featured questions.
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Anna Mae Schupbach
Hazel Gilbertson
Bernice Block
Violet Landsgard
Lois Miller - Letha Adrian
Virleygene Bailey
Florence Olge
Georgana Falb
Jane Falb
Maxine Lehman
Beverly Larson
Maxine Nelson
Thelma Landsgard
Joanne Mosby
Alice Becker
Verna Groth
Sophomores Finish Six Week Tests in English and World History
Sophomores completed six week tests in English and world history. Teachers note steady effort across subjects as students wrap up assessments and prepare for upcoming assignments.
Meet the Juniors Oliver Larson from Clermont
Oliver Larson, a 15 year old from Clermont, is 6 feet 112 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. His favorite subject is trigonometry and he prefers purple and white. He attends chicken dinners, likes the songs Evening in Paris and Moonlight Becomes You, plays basketball and belongs to the boys' glee club. He hopes to be a bookkeeper with support from E. H. Larson.
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Clermont
Oliver Larson
Oliver
Paris
E. H
West Union and Lafayette visitors attend school event
D R Roberts of West Union and Leo Hutchinson of Lafayette visited in school last Friday. Leo leaves for service soon. Sectional tournaments are set for West Union March 3-6. Elgin meets Fredericksburg at 3 pm Wednesday March 3. Last chance to buy the 43 edition of the Annual. sale ends March 1. contact Reuben Christen or William Moore.
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D. R. Roberts
West Union
Leo Hutchinson
Lafayette
Ind
Leo
Elgin
Fredericksburg
Reuben Christen
William Moore
Birthday Calendar February entries
The list shows two birthdays: February 21 honoring Bessie Hope and February 25 honoring Letha Adrian of Burton.
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Bessie Hope
Letha Adrian
Burton
Solons Plan for Present and Post War Period
Legislators move toward spring recess Feb 26 marking the start of the end of the session. Key actions include committee appointments, last day for sponsor bills in the house, and a senate deadline Feb 15. Major issues noted are appropriations, child welfare, and code revisions in civil practices and school code. A March 1 joint hearing on the code revision is planned in the house chamber.
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Senate
House
Iowa livestock totals rise. tax office schedules 1942 returns
Carl reports Iowa on farms had over 21,000,000 cattle hogs sheep horses and mules at year start rising by 2,000,000 in 1942. Shelters: cattle 5,422,000 hogs 13,000,800 sheep 1,866,000 horses 658,000 mules 39,400. About 41,000,000 chickens. Revenue office to assist 1942 tax returns 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mon-Sat. Curator seeks funds to buy eight years Iowa News Flashes reels. House File 341 would regulate labor unions with disclosures and membership fees.
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Carl
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Iowa
Internal Revenue Collector
Federal
Bes’ Moiies
E. H. Birmingham
Ora Williams
Air Service Command
Williams
J. F. Miller
Humboldt
Harry E. Weichman
Newhall
Salmon make epic spawning migration across vast rivers
Salmon travel over 1000 miles inland to spawn after leaving the ocean and do not feed during this journey. This instinctive voyage showcases their endurance and navigational ability as they reach upstream flow to reproduce.
How to Use Ration Book and Budget Point Allowance
Gilbert Anderson travels from a Minneapolis factory with ration guidance. The article explains using household points to buy processed foods, budgeting 48 points per person per ration period, prioritizing non rationed items, and substituting low point options. It also notes using reserve supplies slowly if star stamps are removed and urges buying U.S. defense bonds. A note on a haunted London building being demolished for a new cinema mentions a Tudor era ghost.
Elgin News Short Local Movements and Visits
Elgin residents report several visits and moves. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Miller relocated from Welter Follett farm to rooms at the Elgin hotel. Adalyn Kuhn of Eldorado visited the George Boyle home. The Boyles and Shirley spent Sunday at the Frank Boyle home in West Union. Mrs. Walter Bovis and her sons called on Mrs. Anna Cox at West Union Sunday afternoon. Lawrence Etter and Sandra were dinner guests at the Roland Grover home. Arthur Kelly and family stayed with Ruby Benson, and Sunday dinner guests visited Leo Boleyn. Mary Keiser suffered a heart attack earlier this week and will rest in bed about a week. Tell ’em you saw it in the Eeho.
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Reuben Miller
Welter Follett Farm
Elgin
George Boyle
Shirley
Frank Boyle
West Union
Walter Bovis
Lawrence Etter
Sandra
Roland Grover
Leo Boleyn
Mary Keiser
Church Prefers Rice For Wedding Guests In Liddlehampton
A church in Liddlehampton England asks wedding guests to throw rice rather than confetti. The vicar says rice is cheaper sweeps up easily and feeds the birds.
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Liddlehampton
England
Handkerchief Incident Ties Mussolini to Crown
In a rare public moment the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III and Mussolini were seen walking together when the king dropped his handkerchief. Mussolini retrieved it, prompting the king to remark with a wry smile that the handkerchief is the only thing of his the Duce has not meddled with.
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Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel
Duce
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