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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
2
The Purple and Weekly Publication of the Elgin Schools presents a feature by Lida Walker on exam stress and recovery after tests. The issue includes classroom updates from primary to seventh grade, birthday notices, senior songs, and lively campus scenes from the Elgin-Clermont game crowd.
The week of January 17 to 22 featured two Elgin area basketball games against Clermont and Luana. A large crowd saw 7th and 8th graders play a strong preview to future E. H. S. stars, Clermont’s first team claimed a 30 to 15 win, and Luana hosted a rough, fast match where Clermont led 40 to 28. The next game is at West Union on February 3 with Clermont as the opponent.
A worried mother watches a convalescent son who improves yet becomes more demanding. The piece urges gradually reducing care to prevent fostering a spoiled child while still showing love. It contrasts with a separate note on Easter honeymoon records shattered at Bonaventure station in Montreal with 27 newlyweds aboard the Maritimes Express bound for Niagara Falls.
Farm accidents account for about a quarter of all work related fatalities, highlighting the dangerous conditions in agricultural work and the need for improved safety measures and awareness.
War Food Administration urges farmers to market hogs at average weights, level hog farrowings, rely more on roughage for cattle, and tighten beef feeding to balance supplies. Feed prices rise, livestock margins shrink, with soybeans and corn acreages set to rise in 1944.
Government figures from Capetown show 9,372 South African bachelors with sufficient income to incur income tax. Among them 1,169 earn at least $5,000 yearly, one reported $80,000 and two others ranged between $90,000 and $100,000. EK
The article states that at least 76 million dollars are paid annually by Americans as tolls to cross rivers, highlighting significant costs borne by travelers and the economy. It notes the burden falls on drivers and commercial users across multiple crossings.
From the 1600s, English gagsters popularized a Val entine greeting shaped as an oversized envelope containing many smaller envelopes. The tiniest note read Happy is he who expects nothing and he will not be disappointed.
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