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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1943
Page
2
Feature urging schoolgirls to maintain personal neatness despite rationing worries. Emphasizes clean shoes, white collars, makeup restraint, and harmony in dress. Includes notes on primary and early grades reading about circuses, money lessons, and reflections on weather and friendship. Campfire Girls events and class-year updates included.
Sixth graders study proper adjectives and taxes in arithmetic while seventh graders read The Courtship of Miles Standish and Leif Erickson the Lucky. Eighth graders explore city growth in geography and discuss Problems of Labor and Business. Freshman notes praise dogs as loyal companions.
Professor Douglas Hyde, notable as Ireland's first president, once served as interim professor of modern languages at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
A child learns to move through trial and error from crawling to walking. Milestones show walking typically between 12 and 19 months with space and freedom aiding progress. Persistence helps the baby overcome obstacles and gain independence.
An editorial from Budapest reveals beggars lend 17 wives to attract generosity and operate a business model around this deception. Other beggars offer discarded crutches and glass eyes for sale. Hand organs with or without money keys can be rented by day week or month.
A wartime appeal urges purchases of war bonds to fund fast anti submarine ships. Officials note that each 1,500 ton sub chaser costs about $2,400,000 and urge every citizen to invest at least ten percent of income via payroll savings. Buy bonds at banks post offices or workplaces through the payroll plan.
Within one week March 12 Martin Nelson and wife to George Dutscher and Ciara WD 2250 NW 12 of Lots 13 14 15 19 Clermont Norma Frieden and husband to H F Robbins Qed Lots 9 10 11 12 23 24 B7 Conner's Add Lutra or Elgin Fayette county Iowa to W H Antes Qed Lots 1 2 2 and 4 Ex si 28 of each of said lots and E 12 of L5 Ex S 28 thereof B1 Sutter's Add Elgin
Italian killer Giuseppe Sasie nicknamed Kier of the War was executed by guillotine in Draguignan France after killing four people. The victims included a 70-year-old peasant a 84 year old man a shepherd and a truck driver whom he robbed of small sums.
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