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Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 01, 1945

Page

4

Federal Land Bank loan offer from farmer’s view

A farmer highlights a low interest four percent loan term of thirty four years from the National Farm Loan Association, with contact details for Glen E. Yates in West Union Iowa. The page also lists varied local ads on supplies, livestock feed, insulation, entertainment, farm services, jobs, and sales, with numerous names and locations in Iowa.

Glen E. Yates National Farm Loan Association West Union Iowa

Wart weeks war drive urges citizens to donate and conserve

Government calls for $200,090,000 in voluntary contributions to fund a vast service program. Citizens urged to save waste paper fats and tin cans where collected. Farmers may delay 1945 tax declarations to Jan 15 1946 but must pay estimated tax if delaying. Japan imposes total rationing of food clothing matches medicines gasoline and fuel with local associations distributing rations to about ten families per unit.

Japan

Tightened 1945 Home Canning Sugar and Cotton Goods Program

The 1945 season features a tightened home canning sugar plan with five pound coupons issued by local War Price and Rationing Boards and a one pound per four quarts allowance for fruits not exceeding 20 pounds per person or 160 pounds per family. Separate cotton goods distribution limits 10,000,000 yards to small towns and rural merchants who had less than 20 percent of 1943 cotton sales, targeting home garment use in communities under 25,000.

Iowa poultry raisers use supplements with grains fed to flocks

Iowa Poll finds town women and farmers largely follow recommended practice of supplementing home grown grains. Eighty-four percent of 1-50 fowl raisers use supplements, 94 percent of flocks over 200 also supplement. Eighty-three percent use manufactured supplements. small flocks are the greatest users. Soybean meat tankage and linseed are less common, with 18 percent fed straight and 70 percent mixing ingredients.

Iowa

Creamed Vegetables With Onions and Cheese Variations

Small onions called boilers are served hot with butter and seasoned cream or whole milk. Some plates include bacon or minced ham in a cream sauce, while others blend tangy cheese into the sauce or sprinkle it over creamed vegetables before serving.

Evening School History in New York Opened in 1838

The article traces the origin of public evening schools in the United States, noting Dutch settlers founded the Arat school in New Amsterdam in 1661, the first free public evening school in New York in 1838, and 1847 legislation allowing public funding via the New York board of education.

United States New Amsterdam New York New York Board of Education

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