Want Ads and Hatching Eggs for 1945 Season in Elgin
Classified notices include two sections: ad rates with 26 cents per insertion up to 25 words and 1 cent per word beyond 95 words plus weekly handling charges. Items feature hatchery requests from Capper's Hatchery Elgin Iowa, farm sales near Clermont and Elgin, and repair services by Torkelson Bros Elgin. Includes listings for White Leghorns and other breeds, Poland China hog, and a residence sale for Mrs K Mark estate.
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Want
New Hampshire
Capper’s Hatchery
Elgin
Towa
Service Men and Families In Clermont War Updates
Johnson home on New Year’s day for a week’s furlough after two years in service at Camp Maxey Texas. Pvt Elmer Johnson serves in Belgium with a medical detachment overseas three years. Pfc Louis E Gilbert wounded in France December 24. Don ald L. Martin in France with an anti aircraft artillery battalion. Leaves visitors from Virginia Beach and California on leave at Clermont homes. Lt Stanley Loftsgard returns from nine and a half months overseas with 26 combat missions in Europe.
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Johnson
Camp Maxey
Texas
Fort Meade
Ed Johnson
Pvt
Elmer Johnson
Belgium
Oscar Gilbert
Clermont
War Dept
Pfc
Louis E. Gilbert
France
Donald L. Martin
Karl H. Martin
Stanley Loftsgard
Stanley
Mellen Loftsgard
Gunder
Grain Center Budapest the city of mills and barges
Grain Center Budapest features numerous large grain elevators fed by Hungarian fields with Danube river barges delivering grain. It is reputed as the world’s second largest milling city after Minneapolis, and hosts major distilleries breweries shoe factories and textile mills.
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Grain
Budapest
Minneapolis
Farm values and rationing woes amid wartime heat and hunger
The article warns that while meat rationing remains tight at 85 percent of total supply, many foods still escape rationing. Fuel oil overuse risks colder homes this winter with no extra rations. An expert explains the 1940s farm land boom echoes past distress, urging cautious buying, debt repayment, and War Bond funding to stabilize farm real estate and safeguard equity against inflated prices.
Coddle Electric Cords Best Stored Untangled
Instructions advise keeping electric cords free from kinks by hanging them over two or more metal hooks and turning the switch off before connecting or disconnecting.
Farm and dairy tips for 1944 harvest and records
This excerpt offers practical farming guidance on timber grazing, water needs, hay usage, dairy cow and heifer management, noxious weed control, pullet housing, and the importance of accurate records for income tax. It also notes a butter production decline in early 1944 and promotes Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps as a victory message.
Leeks Cultivation Tips From English Gardeners
Leeks should be grown from seed and transplanted for best results. When stems reach pencil thickness, lift and place each plant in a hole made with a dibber, cover roots lightly, and let soil settle. In rich soil leeks may reach an inch or more in diameter.
Steel furnaces powering war production across steel plants
Nearly 1 000 open hearth steel furnaces operate at plants, from tiny 10 ton units to a 400 ton heat, supplemented by 185 electric arc furnaces 38 electric induction furnaces 35 Bessemer converters and nine crucible furnaces producing steel for the war effort.
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Additon
Bessemer
Water glass storage for eggs extends shelf life
To preserve eggs for future months when prices rise, water glass storage offers a simple method. Obtain water glass from a drug store for about 25 cents per quart, mix with nine quarts of boiled and cooled water, enough to cover roughly 15 dozen eggs, and store in a clean earthen crack or wooden tub of about six gallons in a cool place.
Elgin Echo Ad Promises Stamp Repairs and New Stamps
An advertisement offers repair and reconditioning service for marking devices including self inking stamps pads dies banc daters numbering machines and seal presses. It promotes new stamps pads and made to order stamps and invites readers to see Us for quick service and 18 to Sell it through a Want Ad.
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Elgin Echo
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