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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1940
Page
4
A tiny electric motor claimed as the smallest, said to be 13 billionths of a horsepower, built in Washington state and shown in the House by Congressman Hill. It measures 6.058 inches long, 0.054 inch high, and 0.062 inch wide.
New York reports a novel municipal revenue source harvested from silver teeth extracted at free dental clinics. Eyeless Eden Tourists describe Karges as the Mount Athos capital where women and domestic animals are banned. Stromboli offers near constant eruptions, giving visitors periodic lava thrills.
Charles F. Kettering, GM research director, predicts carburetors that let automobiles travel eighty miles on a single gallon of gasoline. This breakthrough targets higher fuel efficiency and could reshape long range driving expectations.
Czestochowa in Poland hosts large pilgrimages rivaling Lourdes in France. The Polish shrine attracts tens of thousands, with August peak events bringing about 30 000 pilgrims in peasant costumes.
An obscure plant entry from Salisbury North Carolina notes a large oxwood shrub near an Anarean Botanical system. The fragmentary record mentions a girlabs encircling the shrub and untame untreatened aries checks, suggesting a garden survey.
French investigators mistook hollow rubber balls found near the Belgian frontier for a plot to blow something up. A French manufacturer explained the balls were ordinary tennis balls that had rolled in a truck, their contents harmless gas causing needless fear.
A colorful Victorian style guide offers cantaloupe centric serving ideas for salads and desserts with mint sprigs and grape garnishes. It also covers preserving jelly by reducing water content and cautions on pectin in fruit juices. The piece shifts to Iowa farming notes on egg quality, weather impacts, wind loss prevention for farm buildings, and practical mite control for poultry, including a crankcase oil creosote mixture.
The readable text hints at questions about using pectin in preserves, proportions for mixtures, and dairy or meat jelly preparation. It mentions Mrs. Jean Toca and fermenting but lacks clear events, places, or dates to form a full news item.
Marjorie complains of being left out as her mother and Aunt Hetty discuss her sensitivity. A family doctor visit finds no physical illness, and diet and rest prescriptions are advised. Marjorie’s tears are ignored henceforth as the issue unfolds.
Cows with milk fever should not be milked for several days. The 146 pig crop is expected to drop about 10 percent from 1959, and hog prices are rising for the year. Three items are active in six weeks as a time to inspect and clean enclosures. Maye relates to swath and windrow curing, with stained leaves and good growth noted. By better farming practices and more home produced food, FSA farmer-borrowers in the south are described.
Munich, capital of Bavaria, is described as the only large city with more annual visitors than residents. For a thousand years it has drawn tourists, and its current population of 00,000 has long learned to entertain a million visitors each year.
The French Riviera carnival tradition features a new song launched each season and played daily by orchestras until everyone hums it. When the carnival ends the tune fades with King Carnival and a new song rises the following year.
Report describes a milk delivery method in Sicily where goats are driven to the customer’s door and milk is drawn directly there. The practice eliminates a traditional dairy station and serves daily visitors with fresh goat milk.
The Danube river originates from the joining of three smaller streams in the Black Forest of central Europe, marking the river’s source region and defining its early geographic formation.
Rear Admiral C. H. Woodward drove the first rivet for the keel of the U S S Towa the first 45000 ton warship to be built in the United States. Captains Dunn Kierman Richey and others witnessed the ceremony as the public watched from outside. the town will take three years to build and cost 100000000 dollars.
An advertisement touts a new penetrating finish for refinishing floors and interior woodwork. It promises the latest development in finishing products and invites readers to learn more.
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