Elgin High Tattler Highlights Hats and Class News
The Purple and White Tattler notes a fad where Elgin High boys wear hats with Victory V shapes as a protest for their first win. It covers grades from second to eighth, art class posters, maps of the United States, and studies in weather, government, pronouns, and penmanship. Sophomores publish an English composition about the film Devil's Island, praising its critique of injustice while recounting a dramatic hospital scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin High
United States
England
Ats
Meet the Seniors: William Moore and Betty Strauch
A feature on two teens, William Moore and Betty Strauch, detailing their ages, birthdays, heights, weights, favorites, pet peeves, and future ambitions. William aspires to the Navy or Navy Air Corps, while Betty hopes to join the WAVES after high school.
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William Moore
Bill
Elkader
Navy
Navy Air Corps
Betty Strauch
Betty
Postville
The
WAVES
Declamatory Contest Honors Elgin High Girls at Postville
Three Elgin high students earned top places in a Thursday Postville declamatory contest. Lois Feller won first in Dramatics, Joan Mosby took second in Humorous, and Hazel Gilbertson placed in Oratorical. Mrs. Gladys Sehori received thanks for instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postville
Elgin High
Gladys Sehori
Lois Feller
Joan Mosby
Hazel Gilbertson
Brewster Woman Named First Female Percheron Director
Mrs. Max Dreyfus of Brewster elected the first women director of the Percheron Horse Association of America, the world’s largest draft horse registry. A wartime item notes her leadership while another paragraph details beaver-like nutria, its origin in South America, and its fur value. The page also mentions Nye town honors for Rev. and Mrs. Severtson and a Storm Lake auto incident with August Bartelle’s family, plus a Hamburg hunter reporting a fox seen on a fence.
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Brewster
N, Y
Max Dreyfus
Queen Victoria
Percheron Horse Association of America
Storm Lake
August Bartelle
South Dakota
Ern McKean
Hamburg
Ern
Farm Machinery Preparedness Tips
Protection of farm equipment is important. Keeping machinery painted protects costly tools and boosts pride of ownership. Clean and wire brush rust before repainting. After removal from service, thoroughly clean inside and out and apply adequate coating to worn parts.
Alumni return and basketball clash in Elgin
Ernestine Holzer visited the assembly last Wednesday. Alumni names and occupations will be published by graduation year, including recent recruits such as Glen Schupbach in the Navy and Eva Boyer teaching a rural school in Elgin. Clermont defeated Elgin 31 to 7 in a near thriller as Elgin’s second team kept within 18 to 16.
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Ernestine Holzer
Elgin High
Glen Schupbach
Navy
Rose Marie Dennler
Elgin
Eva Boyer
Erma Butikofer
Clermont
Randalia
Dan
No Ban on Navy Enlistments At Age of 17 or 38-50
Navy recruiters in Decorah explain that an executive order restricting 18 to 37 year olds does not bar 17 year olds with parental consent from enlisting. The Navy allows 17 year olds with written parental consent and also accepts applicants up to 50 years and six months old who have reached the 38th birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin
Murray
CTC
USN
Navy
Decorah
Bae No
Pneumonia Deaths Decline In Iowa This Year
The Iowa health department reports a sixth straight yearly decline in pneumonia deaths. By October last year 165 fewer Iowans died from pneumonia than in the same period of 1941, credited to serums and new drugs. A Cresco family celebration followed a long distance call to Army Pvt Herbert Barnes Jr in Honolulu.
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Iowa
Iowa State Health Department
Herbert Barnes
Cresco
Corp
Herbert Barnes, Jr
Honolulu
Barnes
Charles Staebell
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Purple and White Tattler
Elgin Schools
Anna Mae
Behupbach
Bernice Blockhus
Violet Landagard
Lolg Miller - Lethe Adrian Musite
Virleygene Bailey
Florence Olge
Georgana Fai
Clifton Kohler
Maxine Lehman
Beverly Larson
Maxine Nelson
Thelma Landsgard
Joanne Morty
Alice Becker
Verna Groth
gena@tophy
Bonita Graver
Burton Wolf
Donna Dean
Beverly Sutter
Verla Benson
Bonnie Lantz
Shirley Boyle
Devil's Island
Alcatraz
Boris Karlof
Devil's ‘Island
Shippy
Eleanor
Florence
Betty Alice
Reuben
Gene
Les Miller
Charlotte
State Conservation Commission
South America
North American
Jose Carvalho
Iowa State College
T. J. Severtson
Eagle Grove
East Side Lutheran Church
Ghe
Avalon
Better Pictures
Jack Fallows
West Union
10WA
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
Capistrano
Weaver Brothers
Elgiry
Jack
Benny, Anna Sheridan
Geo. Washington
Anna Neagle
Robert Newton
Britain
Amy Mollison
Dell
Elgin Echo
Elgin Echo Stationers
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