Flying Tigers in China at Avalon this weekend
British American entertainment note about "FLYING TIGERS" show at Avalon with guest Hilder Gilbertson. Also mentions Scrap Iron and steel drives, and a note from Torkelson Bros. Elgin selling old scrap metals to aid war effort. Plus insurance ad for Employers Mutual and Avery Island salt mine factoid.
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Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Avalon
the Echo
Edwin Krueger
Elgin
Flying Tigers
China
Bohn
Hilder Gilbertson
Torkelson Bros
Dial
Cities Enact Their Own Civil Service Agencies
The Civil Service Assembly reports 869 municipal civil service agencies across the nation built on varied legal bases. Most are three member bodies with six year terms. larger cities increasingly appoint salaried executives to manage administration. Life spans and structures differ by state constitutions, charters, or ordinances.
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Civil Service Assembly
United States
Canada
Civil Service Commissions
California
Ohio
Civil Service Acts
Minnesota
New York
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Freakish museum offers tempt curators with oddities
Museums reject many bizarre offers citing costs and dubious value. One woman offered her petrified husband’s body as a curiosity, another proposed hair mementos from German royalty, a New York jeweler offered T. R. Roosevelt’s tooth set with diamonds, and a New Jersey seller pitched the “original” Eve apple.
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New York Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh
Kaiser Wilhelm
New York
T. R. Roosevelt
New Jersey
Eve
Adam
Weather gadget radio sonde used by weather bureau
The radio sonde is a two pound device attached to balloons six feet wide, reaching 70 000 feet. It transmits radio signals to ground stations so observers can determine air pressure temperature and humidity at the high altitude.
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United States
Weather Bu
Bureau of Standards
Weather Bureau
Billiards in Texas and the ban on commercialization
The piece notes Texas' unique stance against commercial pool and billiard parlors, labeling it a misdemeanor to run a parlor charging for table use for two decades. It observes clubs still host games privately while policy remains strict, provoking operator opposition to raids.
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Texas
Smallest electrical motor shown in Zurich exhibit
The smallest electrical motor in the world, no bigger than a match head, was exhibited in Zurich Switzerland. It reaches three thousand revolutions per minute and consumes five one thousandth of a watt, highlighting advances in miniature motor design.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Iowa Livestock Tops One Billion Dollars in Asset Value
Iowa farm livestock as of January 1, 1943 total more than 21 million head, up 2 million in 1942, with cattle and hogs driving gains. Total livestock value reaches a record 1,007,233,000 dollars, first time assets exceed one billion. Hog numbers exceed 13 million, a new high, about 1.5 million above 1923 record.
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Iowa
Limed soil and crops guidance from 1942 Iowa farming guidance
The text advises limed soil for soybeans and notes corn following soybeans yields more than corn after corn. It discusses flax production in Iowa and its historic acreage potential, spring rat control with bait, valuing repairable field machines over new hoes, rubber boot certification from the War Price and Rationing Board, and 1942 Iowa cash farm income estimates. It also highlights flax’s weed competition, sowing on clean ground, and a rotenone sulfur treatment that killed 95 percent of cattle grubs in a December to February test.
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Agronomy and Horticulture
Iowa State College
How Do You Compare A farmer’s claim on egg income
A farmer reports selling eggs at 3.72 per hen last year with more eggs to come. He says costs are under half of receipts, producing a healthy margin. He promotes chickens as a strong source of extra farm income.
Cattle Escape Baffles Chicago Police in Iowa Case
A load of O D Brubaker cattle from South English broke from a truck in Chicago last week. Four police squads searched for hours without success. In colder notes Conrad Burton now in Pease Saskatchewan reported freezing chimney with 37 below zero temperatures and 50 below nightly averages. George Ortell of Maquoketa Alaska froze hands and feet on a 30 mile snowshoe trip after gear failure. He lingered 20 hours buried in snow as Canadian mounted police found him. Sheldon Kiwanis hosts a local quiz using member epigraphs to identify sources.
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O. D. Brubaker
Chicago
Conrad Burton
Pease
Saskatchewan
Canada
Corydon
George Ortell
Alaska
Maquoketa
Ortell
Council Proceedings Elgin Iowa March 1 1943
Elgin Iowa council meets in regular session at town hall with Mayor Falk and six councilmen present. Minutes of prior meeting approved and bills audited including Elgin Echo postage and supplies, street labor, janitor and marshal, hall and street lights, pumping, and clerk pro tem salary. adjournment moved.
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Elgin
Iowa
Falk
Muehiethaler
O’neill
Kohls
Schori
Dean
Elgin Echo
G. Pfister
Barney Larson
Marshall
H.W. Falk
Max Thoma
Central States Power & ‘Light Corp
Central States Power & Light Corp
T. W. Dean
G. H. Falk
Short But Sweet Salmon Life Cycles
A brief note on salmon life cycles states that all salmon return to their native water to spawn and die. Red salmon take four to six years, Chinooks three to seven, and specific runs vary by species: two years for Finks, three for Silvers, and four for Chums.
Leaves on Beech and Fir Trees Counted
The beech tree with an 18 inch trunk reportedly bears about 120000 leaves while a fir or spruce with a 20 inch trunk is estimated to have 10 to 20 million needle leaves. This rough comparison highlights vast leaf densities across species.
School election to fill Clermont District seat Monday
Herbert G. Martin, a current board member, was the only candidate for the Clermont Independent District election scheduled Monday. With filing closed, his name will appear on the official ballot as the sole candidate up for re-election.
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Clermont
Herbert G. Martin
City street paving blocks vanish as police detain man
Police say a Chicago street is vanishing under paving blocks removed by Frank Valencia who was seen pushing a wheelbarrow. Valencia claimed he planned to burn the blocks for fuel and questioned whether the city would provide relief.
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Chicago
Frank Valencia
Hippo Sex Question Sparks Wry Zoo Reply
A visitor at the zoo asked a keeper if the hippopotamus was male or female. The keeper answered with a wry line that such a question should interest only another hippopotamus.
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Tish
the Avalon
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Iver Johnson
Perry Paulson
Avery Island
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