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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1947
Page
4
Classified snippet notes surplus electrical supplies from Jack Heinen stock with wholesale pricing for dealers. Includes Bucksmith Shop welding and a milk cart offer with farm calls. Brief mention of historical Liberty Bell crack and Brazilian dye wood yield with dye color.
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas Ow notes midwinter fur fashions bring striking trends. Last minute fur jackets favor smart fitted lines with leopard pieces and notched collars. Alaskan seat models resemble officer coats with belt backs and silver buttons. Three quarter length capes with black broadtail, cape stoles in mink, and jewel-embroidered tur hats define the season.
The article notes $25,000,000 in forest fire losses nationwide, higher than 1044 despite fewer fires. It highlights over 1,600 organized soil conservation districts expanding at nearly one new district per day, with farmer managed districts aided by trained technicians to implement conservation practices.
Amber, prized for its color translucency and luster, is a fossil resin of vegetable origin rather than a stone. It exuded from now extinct pine species in the Lower Oligocene period, about 35 million years ago, similar to spruce gum chewed by country children.
Human nutrition differs from animals in two key ways. First humans are not valued for increased body weight or reproduction as in domestic animals. Second only a small portion of human food is raised by the farmer in its original form.
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