Help Wanted and Ads Notice In Echo
Classified ads show rates for want ads with per word charges, guest tickets for Fremont Sullivan looking to attend a double feature at Avalon, farm work by a 39 year old, notice for The Male Animal at Avalon, Kenneth Hellum invited as guest, and offers on typing paper and pads with price changes due to rising paper costs.
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Want
Fremont Sullivan
Clermont
the Avalon
Echo
Rio Grande
Japan
Leslie Pritchard
Elgin
The
Kenneth Hellum
St. Olaf
Uneaper Coat furnace saves coal by thermostatic control
An automatic household furnace named Uneaper Coat, designed to burn cheaper hard coal with thermostatic control, can be left for months. Invented by E. T. Selig and tested at Mellon Institute, it used a four foot ash pit and a four month coal refill with three ash removals annually during a test on a 38 year old boiler furnace.
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E. T. Selig
Mellon Institute
Farm and agricultural notes on crops and prices in 1941 era
The digest covers livestock feeding timing for hens, bee disease eradication funding in nineteen counties, late summer queen introductions for degraded colonies, rising land values with Iowa and Story County sale highs, oat crop health including rust and smut, new rust resistant varieties, and August alfalfa seeding to speed hay supply, plus ration adjustments due to potential fish meal and dried milk shortages.
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United States
Story County
Fide
Towa
Iowa
Boone
Marion
Hancock
Tama
Needles in Bottle A Simple Rust Prevention Tip
A brief note advises keeping needles in a bottle or small pill box to prevent rust. The tip emphasizes storing sharp items in a sealed container to maintain their condition.
Postcard Sage Comment on Remembrance and Jury Readability
Hi Ho of Chinatown notes the postcard helps honor memory while shielding readers from objectionable content in front of a jury. The remark frames the card as both a memorial aid and a safeguard against harmful material appearing in court.
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Hi Ho
Chinatown
Third Eyelid in Animals and Vestigial Human Eye
The Bet ter Vision institute notes that most birds possess a third eyelid or nictitating membrane to protect and clean the eye. It is also well developed in cats, cows, and rabbits, while humans retain a vestigial remnant under the inner eye corner.
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Better Vision Institute
Three Charles E Wilsons Lead Big U S Firms
The recent election of Charles E Wilson as GM president adds to two other leaders with the same name: Charles E Wilson of General Electric as president and Charles E Wilson of Worthington Pump & Machinery as vice president.
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Charles E. Wilson
General Motors Corporation
General Electric Company
Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation
Christmas Club funds mostly saved or used for bills
A Christmas Club, Inc. report shows less than one third of the $265,000,000 saved by 7,500,000 members during 1940 Christmas club plans was spent on purchases. Most funds went into permanent savings, paying bills, taxes, insurance premiums, education, travel and charity.
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Christmas Club, Inc
Award for Keeping Out of Court Award to promote arbitration in foreign trade
Eugene F. Sitterley of Importers' Guide unveils an annual award for the American business group most effectively promoting arbitration for out of court settlement of foreign trade disputes. C. V. Whitney, president of the American Arbitration Association, announced the prize.
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Eugene F. Sitterley
Importers’ Guide
American Business Organization
C. V. Whitney
American Arbitration Association
Sidewalk Trespass Case Noted By Court
The New York Supreme Court held that a person who stops on a sidewalk in front of another’s home and shouts abusive language is trespassing, since ownership extends to the street’s middle and sidewalks serve public rights of way.
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Collier's
New York Supreme Court
Bake at Home For Variety in Bread
Homemakers who bake bread add nutrition variety, using enriched or whole wheat flour and quick acting dry yeast. From one 49 pound flour sack, thirty-two two pound loaves can be made, reducing trips for bakery bread. Variations include Swedish tea ring kolaches orange rolls and cheese sticks, with practical shaping tips and serving ideas.
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Kolaches
Farm notes on lice control and pig crop forecasts
Poultrymen at Iowa State College advise dipping hens in a sodium fluoride mix or painting roosts with Black Leaf 40 to prevent lice. The 1942 spring pig crop is forecast at 62 million head, 25 percent above 1941 and 15 percent above all prior crops, with June surveys showing a 22 percent rise in fall drop. Government prefers dried milk for shipments, reducing evaporated milk demand and boosting powdered milk. Call out non layers to reserve space for young layers this fall.
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Iowa State College
Paprika rich in vitamin C value
Paprika is rich in food value and contains vitamin C.
Amish avoid rationing scare in Adams County
A CFI photo from Simon M. Schwartz shows an Amish mother and children in Berne Indiana arriving for a shopping tour. They live without cars or power-driven machinery and faced away from the camera, except one boy who looked at the lens, amid a scrap rubber drive that has little effect on their lack of tires or tubes.
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Berne
Indiana
Simon M. Schwartz
Adams County
Fragmented humor and ads from a late night radio read
A collage of quips about comfort in beds and rooms, notes on insulation and War Bonds, plus comic anecdotes about Baptists in Georgia and a nervous steno learning punctuation. The piece blends misheard dialogue and sales pitches, capturing a quirky slice of period life.
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H. P. Stover
Glens Nyborg
Gunder
Bolson
C. M. Kneeland
Eleanor Powell
Red Skelton
Jake Dennler
MV. Kiple
Torkelson Bros
IHC
Echo Office
Elgin Out Co
Wunstop Duzzit
Elgin Oil Company
West Union
Morton
Thia
Weibel Mill CO
Elgin, Iowa
Canada
Pleasant Valley Board of Trustees
B. H. Brackin
Weed Com
H. A. Red Star
Elgin Farmers Coop
Rastua
Savanna
Georgia
Moses
Bullrushes
Schori & Kusterler. CO
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