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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
3
Agnes Paulson is named local editor with a listed telephone and affiliations to Iowa and national editorial associations. The item notes clerical mailing registration in Clermont, Fayette County, Iowa, as second class mail matter.
Twenty five years ago Addie and Ruth Shipton went to Waterloo to take a business course at the College of Commerce. Mabel Olson returns from Sioux City for a two week nurse training vacation. Howard Runyon has enlisted in overseas MCA service. George Miller at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in good health. The Halversons move from Dr Aanes residence. Jack closes land deals in Montana. Mrs Halverson to visit Elgin and St Paul. Norris Olson enlists in coast artillery band at Jefferson Barracks. Elizabeth Priest marks her ninth birthday with a party. Helen Peterson and Arthur Stee wed in Decorah. they plan to live in Clermont. Mrs Haas and Anna May return from Buffalo Center. Virginia Williards teaching in Ogden Utah. Margaret Rafferty back from Iowa City summer work. Parson Hastie discusses fifty seven years of preaching across multiple regions. Oldest Iowa dam at Pioneer State Park near Osage completes flood gate work.
Iowa officials announce a new school code commission named by Governor Hickenlooper with Henry K. Peterson and Mrs. Raymond Sayre among appointees. National politics loom as Democratic leaders predict Wallace’s renomination and discuss 1944 candidates. OPA chief Rae E. Walters sails into Des Moines, signaling shifts in party influence, while tributes recall Kitnick Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr. and his untimely death as a Navy flier.
Iowa issues updated ration deadlines across classes A B and C with second inspection due dates for Class A Sept 30 Class B June 30 and Class C Aug 31. Commercial vehicles require inspections every 40 days or 5000 miles. Gasoline A book No 6 valid to July 21 fuel oil coupons expire Sept 30 Coffee coupon 24 valid to June 30 Sugar coupon 13 valid to Aug 15 coupons 15 16 valid through Oct 31 for 5 lbs canning per item.
A fragmentary page presents ration stamp validity dates for blue and red stamps and related coupons, alongside peculiar notes on hunting lore. It also mentions Nice Sweet Pore’s cattle by products use, Waite Phillips selling New Mexico ranch holdings, and a Humboldt man’s 43-pound catfish with others reporting a 50-pound plus fish at Spirit Lake.
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