It's Your Patriotic Duty to Sell Articles You No Longer Need
A jumble of notices: a for sale ad for ladies black pumps in size 7% AAA with Echo Office inquiry, a note about truck drivers needing ODT Daily Report Books at the Echo office for local service hauling and tire gasoline quotas, and a $1,800 six month supply price for one truck. Also a Cedar Rapids park donation of a flower garden by Dr. and Mrs. Norton featuring iris, tulips, and peonies, transplanted by trained workers. history notes the garden's 20 year run in Mt. Vernon. Nearby items report need for new curtains in Freeman Ketchum home, Marengo, and a fire that destroyed those curtains after children played with matches.
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ODT
Echo
William H. Norton
Mt. Vernon
Cedar Rapids Park System
Cedar Rapids
Norton
Freeman Ketchum
Marengo
Equalizing Gasoline Rations and War Inductions
Within sixty days the Petroleum Administration for War will recommend rationing changes to spread the gasoline burden nationwide. East gains, Midwest and Southwest see declines. driving for nonessential use is not expected to rise. Induction of 18 or 19 year olds may be postponed if called during the late school year. Farmers selling corn to CCC bulk buyers before August 10 receive price-gap protection through October 31. Home canning jars surge in five months, guiding housewives. Disabled veterans get local job help via the Veterans Employment service. Return empty bottles promptly to ease war production. Spare tires limited to essential users with recapped options. American turkey raisers asked to furnish about 10 million pounds for soldiers abroad.
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United States
Rocky Mountains
The
Petroleum Administration
Middle West
Southwest
Turkey
Breezy Iowa notes cover farms and lawless driving
The passage lists farm topics from Iowa including corn borers in Benton and Poweshiek counties, cattle and poultry weights, and summer grain needs. It notes land value changes in the Seventh District, dairy production amid shade practices, and seed outlook. An incident reports a reckless driving arrest of Lakner near a sheriff’s car, with a $26 fine, plus a wartime savings bond appeal at the end.
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Crewford
Cavett
Lakner
Bradces
Wartime housing upkeep and hog price ceiling stated
Wartime restrictions limit new home construction to war industry areas. Most American families rely on existing housing for the duration of the war. A ceiling price of 14.75 dollars per hundredweight on live hogs, Chicago basis, will be set early in August.
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Chicago
Hose grading not required in hosiery labeling
The article notes that women's rayon hosiery need not be labeled Grade A or Grade B, though ceiling price and gauge or needle count rules remain in force. It also reports warnings against oven canning due to slow results and safety risks from improper techniques. It provides wartime POW statistics: 65,088 interned in the U S with 45,355 Germans, 19,641 Italians, 62 Japanese across 37 camps in 20 states including Camp McCoy Wisconsin.
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U. S
Camp McCoy
Wisconsin
Fragmented potted dialogue with wartime humor adrift
A jumble of snippets and punchlines about social life and home care. The text mixes mock ads for paint and disclaimers about appearances with rapid exchanges among characters on Fifth Avenue and sailors in casual banter. It presents a collage rather than a coherent story or report.
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Park Pavilion Fairgrounds
West Union
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Turkelian Bros
Lawrence Gehring
Dummermuth
Henry Oldfather
Fayette
Hanson
Oelwein
Kernahan Land Company
Town
Torkelson Bros
McCormick-Deering
Zaney
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
the Avalon
the Echo
Lawrence Butikofer
John J. Collins
Elkader
Royal
Ford
Larson Roofing Co
Clermont
Iowa
Flicka
Avalon
Echo Watts Ray Jacobin
Postville
Tarkelson Bros
Mead’s
Ranger
Ace
Ballon Tires Fair
Betty Strauch
Echo-Enterprise
Europe
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
Satarice
KR. P. Strauch
Norris Capper
Minnesota
Weibel Mill Co
Elgin, Iowa
Bering House
War Industries
Commodity Credit Corporation
Armed Services
Veterans Employment Representative
United States Employment Service
Benton
Poweshiek
Federal Reserve District
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
U. S. Defense
West Union Rendering Works
Enterprise
Dial
Sease
Smith
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Schori & Kuster Ler. CO
Pride of
Elgin Farmers Coop
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