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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1942
Page
1
A column discusses government press controls on military news, public relations practices, and public reaction during a cold Iowa spell. It recalls January thaw on Jan 12, notes shortages and rationing impacts, cites rising war costs, and ends with a Beacon item about material shortages and a local note on the newspaper.
Reader notices urge conserving paper to fund subscriptions and support wartime needs. Messages praise officer involvement, promote defense bonds, and explain a ton of waste paper yields shells, boxes, dust covers, and targets for the war.
Wednesday notes include J D Shaffer buying the F W Hughes home on Center street with possession March 1. Obituary announces Mrs Ann Barnhouse Kennedy died at 6 a m Sunday Jan 7 in West Union after two weeks with pneumonias.
The Elgin Farmers Dairy Company will auction all buttermilk outputs on Saturday February 17 at 2 PM at the Elgin creamery office. Only creamery patrons may bid. The sale includes each day’s churning for one year starting February 2 1942. Also auctioning a Myers Bulldozer Pump with 70 feet of 4 inch pipe line shaft. The board may reject any bid. Fleet Frieden secretary.
A fragment explains cleaning the interior of glass bottles by placing small lemon pieces, adding water to half full, and shaking well to scour the insides. The instruction reflects a simple, age old household tip using citrus to scrub.
Wright A. Patterson explains WWI press paper stockpiling and rising prices. Western Newspaper Union paid up to 260 dollars per ton, forcing reductions in daily, weekly, and magazine print runs. Canada supplies labor and pulp shrink as war advances, signaling shortages, higher prices, and potential closures for many country papers.
Officers of C E S were installed on Wednesday evening with Worthy Matron Mrs B H Brackin and Worthy Patron C B Schori among those named. Other officers listed include Mrs H H Wolf Associate Matron, A M Weibel Associate Patron, secretary Mrs R W Muehlenthaler, treasurer Mrs R P Strauch, conductress Elizabeth McMillan, and several attendants.
Ex servicemen of World War I guard the Lansing Toll Bridge in a privately owned setup funded by the bridge company. In Dubuque, state paid guards patrol other crossings while Illinois guards monitor eastern bridge approaches and confiscate weapons and saboteur material until ownership is proven.
From W J Rogers abstract office, Ernest Meyer and Lena Meyer transfer to Clemens Meyer for $1.00 the NE SW and NW SE 25 94 3 and to Leo Meyer for $1.00 the E 1 2 NW and E 2 rods W 1 2 NW 25 84 8. Elma Reichert transfers for $1.00 the W 1 2 SW 25 94 8.
Hugh C. Dunn, a Navy yeoman third class who served about a year and a half, returned from Iceland to spend the holiday with his parents Mr and Mrs E L Dunn in Indianola. He traveled largely by plane on the land journey and noted his homecoming after duty with the Navy.
A collection of aphorisms and quotes from various authors. The lines urge discipline, friendship, diligence, and prudent speech, attributed to figures such as Seneca Bulwer-Lytton Stevenson Delisle Burns and Marcus Aurelius. The items read as a compact miscellany of late 19th or early 20th century wisdom.
Babson urged merchants to raise advertising budgets during slow consumer buying periods to spur demand. He argued that advertising remains essential even as demand weakens, and that strong demand negates the need to stimulate purchases. Advertising acts as the dynamo that keeps business moving within the marketing system.
In Pittsburg Kansas a two week old Milking Shorthorn calf named Bonnie Brae Victory marks wartime livestock role Its sire and dam lineage are noted with the dam achieving 9490 lbs milk in 365 days The calf belongs to Dr H J Veatch and bears a distinct forehead V A separate note mentions Donald Rayburn of Manchester receiving a bronze medal from Illinois Central Railroad for averting a train wreck and a Dallas County lawyer quip about carrying books to the judge.
Harold Reece of New Providence earned a $45 bounty from Hardin county for destroying 450 crows. Garner merchants Goodrich & Bethke advertised 10,000 jackrabbits to aid Red Cross funds. Furs fetch 25 cents for felt hats. Norman Seeley Jr a Stone City student received a $10 Christmas gift from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Co for reporting a fallen tree near tracks.
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