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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
4
A crowded column lists a house with barn and three acres for sale near Mrs. Aqua Schupbach in Elgin, and offers on repair services for marking devices. It advertises stamps, pads, dies, and repair work, plus insurance, dairy equipment, show tickets, and rationing blanks with local business references.
I sincerely thank all who remembered me with cards letters flowers fruit and gifts during my illness and those who visited. Grateful appreciation to all who assisted at moving time. Be Mrs Wm Kohls jri
Walter Kohls thanks all who sent cards letters and gifts during his stay at the Veterans hospital in Des Moines expressing deep appreciation for the kindness and thoughtful deeds extended to him.
Mr and Mrs Gottfried Pfister and family express gratitude to everyone who sent cards and letters, visited, or brought food during the hospital stay. They thank all for the kindness shown.
A thoughtful critic opens the tribute, praising quality and discerning judgment. The piece underscores the value of skepticism as a foundation for fair critique and elevated standards in artistic evaluation.
The notice directs a review of registrants ages 18 through 37, focusing on those deferred in 2A 2B 3G and 3G classes with emphasis on younger men to aid agriculture and industry. Other items outline income tax correction steps, ration book changes, and the Emergency Maternity and Infant Care Program serving wives of service members in lower pay grades with hospital and infant care at no cost.
A strip of serially numbered coupons in a cardboard folder will be issued to renewal applicants of B and C supplemental gasoline rations and new B and R rations for gasoline powered equipment. Serial numbering is OPS's strongest weapon against the gasoline black market. Motorists must still endorse their coupons.
Non farm women including teachers students stenographers and professionals worked on farms in the United States during 1943. Farmers indicated willingness to employ them more extensively this year reflecting labor demand and wartime needs.
The CPA announces price shifts and ration adjustments including two cent higher retail set for glass jars of apples and juice, March availability of 10,000 new cars and 7,500 bicycles, lowered country butter ration values where needed, temporary removal of lard from rationing, a one cent per bushel wheat price rise, soap making lard release totaling 50 million pounds, and urges salvage of tin can by turning in old tubes while noting scarce rear tractor tires due to airplane tire production.
A brief item notes rats bite nails as a problem faced by Rata and mentions falls causing half of last year’s home accident deaths. The report links nail biting to broader health concerns and home safety.
The notice states Coupon No. 18 in Ration Book 1, valid since June 16, 1943, remains good for one pair of rationed shoes through April 30 with no expiration date fixed yet for Coupon No. 18. Coupon No. in Ration Book 3 is also valid for one pair, with a later stamp to be designated May 1 for shoe purchases.
Point values on rationed meat were reduced last Sunday March 5 with reductions on potashes, beef, and some sausage items. Veal lamb mint sauces and certain fats remained unchanged. Meat rationing paused in Canada March 1. U S officials see no similar move in the United States. An advance note reports a Soviet wood burning car ready for production.
A Buddhist belief portrays the soul as a butterfly, a motif common in Burman imagery. The metaphor reflects cultural views on life, transformation, and reincarnation, illustrating how Burmese spirituality visualizes internal essence.
A Grinnell home saw a boiler explosion with ceiling damage and interior wreckage but no fire. Waverly thieves raided three businesses for minor items while coyly leaving invoices scattered. A 65 foot bridge in Poweshiek county was moved 400 feet at a cost of 1000 dollars. Dairymen nationwide face record demand with no surplus fear as war sustains dairy needs.
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