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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
4
Rates for want ads set at 25 words or less cost 25 cents per insertion. over 25 words add 1 cent per word. An extra 10 cent weekly handling charge applies for replies sent to the office. Cash with order. no billing accounts. Elgin Echo advertises marking device repairs and stamps. Hay Mower Co. offers 300 units this year, with 20,000 in use, Luana Iowa.
Susie and Aunt Ella spark a winter of frugal living and pot roast trials in the Thornton home. Susie pursues a “simpler life” while Sam resists, Aunt Ella mourns “the good old days,” and a planned spree ends in a renewed pledge to spend for a cause.
Civilians will face lower prices on some coffee, cocoa and peas in 1944 while many plumbing and heating items become unrationed. Extended sale of ration-free women’s shoes at three dollars or less ends February 5. No WPB authorization needed for most cooking heating equipment, including stoves, bathtubs, toilets and sinks.
A plan to mail gasoline ration coupons to motorists from guarded central stations is being established to stop coupon thefts, improve OPA issuance control, and ease the burden on local boards.
Farmers may use twelve red stamps numbered 8A through 8N for pork and other rationed meats, not usable by the general public until February 27. Each stamp is 10 points, totaling 120 points, with expiration dates similar to city markets. Brown stamps in hook three may also be used early when buying from farmers.
Steel springs for upholstered wood furniture will hit the market in about 60 days. Manufacturers may use a limited quantity of these springs.
War dogs return in their pre war state of docility with discharge certificates and service records. They are reprocessed to ensure friendly conduct toward all, undergo thorough exams, and are repurposed at government expense before homecoming.
Cargill Foods thanks buyers and praises its feeding program while C J Mulford in Elgin notes Army paint choices favor drab olive to reduce reflectivity. New markings move from white stencil numbers to blue drab pencil marks for better invisibility from air and film.
The War Department calls for bids on a combined air and seaplane base at Roanoke Island near Kitty Hawk, a few miles from the Wright brothers birthplace. The port is expected to cost about 0.5 million dollars, with the region historically lacking a usable airport for powered aircraft.
A construction camp worker near Edenburg South Africa lifted his mattress to reveal two snakes coiled beneath it. Ground marks indicate the man and the reptiles had shared the bed for weeks.
Readable fragment describes peaches with 8 inch sea peaches in one pane, equivalent to about 300 peaches 2 inches in diameter. No clear event or names, but conveys quantity and size relationship among fruit specimens.
A jumble of old broadcast quips and captions about diving on a submarine, porch sheds needing support, and lumber supplies. A reminder to employees about sickness absence reports and a pair of domestic dialogue fragments conclude the noisy fragment.
The adhesive fixing cotton fabric to the interior side of a prefabricated wall also serves as an effective barrier against vapor penetration through the wall.
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