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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1943
Page
3
Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam notices offered at regular ad rates. Resolutions of Respect, church, society, and school notices with admission charged are advertised. Obituary poetry also included. The notice is dated Thursday January 14, 1943.
A collage of humor and local notes including Rich's Pipe Dreams satire, wedding notices for Opal Wink and Marvin Blink in Cedar Rapids area, and wartime chatter about shortages and prices. The piece blends jokes, wedding reportage, and light commentary from Anamosa and Cedar Rapids.
A collection of humorous quips on social norms and moron jokes from a Guttenberg Press column. It covers dress codes at dances, marital spats, coffee grounds memo, Christmas gift piles, meat rationing gossip, early routines, and lighthearted moron anecdotes. The tone is cheeky and regional, with playful takes on everyday life and dating rituals.
The note recalls Henry Follett visiting his son Walter in Fort Worth Texas last Thursday, while Mrs. A F Plambeck visits Fremont Neb for a short time with her brother F W Hughes. It mentions several others traveling, enlisting, or serving in the U S Navy and in France including Clare Cunningham in Russia, Earriple in Rockford Illinois, and Elgin area volunteers.
Real estate transfers recorded from W J Rogers abstract office for week ending January 9 include Bessie Sullivan and others transferring to M C and Edith Larson a parcel in Thompson's Add Clermont for 750 dollars and Sarah Kiple transferring to John Kiple a unit in Bo Conner's Add valued at 181 dollars. Also Julia Kiple and Altice AL ty Herbert M Dummermuth acquire Lots 14 1b 18 1 20 21 in Conner's Add to Lutra. presso sale not listed.
Dr Samuel N Stevens Grinnell College president warns that reduced advertising during the war emergency endangers press freedom and weakens communities. He urges consistent ad spend buy from local merchants and strengthen civic clubs to sustain newspapers amid rationing and drives. Positive examples cite scrap drives and public notices. Nearby feature notes Patsy Murphy and Burlington trains sharing gifts with the girl and crew.
Price indexes show gains in grain egg and poultry costs lifting Iowa farmers index to 179 percent of the 1909 1914 base. Hog and cattle prices declined limiting further rise. The December 15 level marks the best December reading since 1919 with prices for corn oats and milk cows at record or near record highs for the period. Adams County earns a War Bond plane in its name after surpassing 175000 in bonds. weekly papers in Iowa publish 53 issues in 1942.
A wind swept Russian field shows a woman serving tea to Red Army soldiers from a samovar as a baby is held by one serviceman. The moment captures a Don region frontline scene during the German retreat from strong points.
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