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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1942
Page
4
The Avalon hosts a single showing of the Shanghai Gesture next Wednesday June 17 with free courtesy tickets for Jerome Yearous. Gene Tierney and Walter Houston star in the pictured production.
The article notes dairymen devote about 139 hours per cow annually, advises timely greens selection for storage, and stresses summer comfort for pigs with temporary shade. It warns inflation as wartime risk, cites 66 percent wholesale price rises since 1939, and urges earlier hay cutting to boost red clover seed yields, citing Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois trials.
Public service notice urges daily remembrance of Pearl Harbor and promotes U S Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps as a patriotic savings program.
Janice Rustad of Estherville fell from a second story bedroom window while still asleep and landed on her feet. She was found hours later by her mother after the accident. Five buildings burned at John B DeMichelis farm near Chariton when a chimney spark started the blaze. John DeMichelis Jr escaped death as a tractor rollover left him with a seriously injured arm after tries to rescue gasoline. A lightning strike destroyed the barn on the DeMichelis place twenty two years earlier on the same day.
A garden guide promotes a fresh spring vegetable salad using lettuce radishes onions green beans endive tomatoes and cucumbers with a light dressing and crunch from celery and carrots. It also offers durable DIY toy ideas for children across ages six months to five years, emphasizing simple blocks balls and household items to withstand rough play.
Housing Experiment Newark launches an education test as school authorities and city officials monitor. The board of education plans a public school integrated with Seth Boyden court and a United States housing authority public housing development.
Housewives in Sugar Town are urged to add more fresh fruit and juices to daily meals. Eating fruit plain reduces dessert baking, cuts work, and saves sugar. Fruit provides energy from natural sugars and is rich in vitamin C, while its light, refreshing flavors help combat the hot day fatigue.
The American Automobile club says power loss is not fixed by valve grinding alone. Adjust spark timing along with valve timing to restore engine power. A separate item notes Buena Vista county faced a rationing sugar shortage due to missing application blanks after a shipment was lost from Washington DC. In South Dakota a six story flour mill overheats from friction, heated air is blown out by a fan. An explosion near Sheldon destroyed a home, seriously burning Mrs Niewendorp after she lit a match to burn papers in the furnace.
Chicago residents discuss Battle-Checkers, a new beat the axis game using miniature military pieces. Three cast members from a hit show, Mary Ellen Popel, Marlo Dwyer, and Gayle Mellott, are featured as the lovelies in the story about the game’s invention by a former chess champion.
A roadside sign reads Beer and Nations near Greenville South Carolina. The passage also notes a local newspaper obituary for Ernest Muller and a curious mix of quotes about Nazi criticism and a police exchange. Governments and private life appear with tense echoes of a past era.
A pig with two bodies and eight legs is shown in a Belmond doctor’s window. Carl Mennenga, a nearby farmer, brought the creature for public display. the animal lived briefly and breathed with both bodies.
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