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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1941
Page
4
A new girl enters Sally Adams grade and faces exclusion. Mrs. Adams guides Sally to show kindness by inviting the newcomer to a May Day party, teaching empathy and inclusion. Sally insists on waiting for the new girl at the walk to school, then resolves to include her.
A father pleads in a 1941 Iowa Legionaire letter for drivers to slow down near schools and intersections to protect children. He describes his seven year old daughter, her doll Betsy, a Cocker Spaniel named Coot, and common school fears, urging caution as kids walk from parked cars and cross streets.
In 1939 Minnesota Rhode Island and Alabama enacted civil service laws while Arkansas repealed them outright and Michigan significantly modified the statutes during the same year.
Forest Ranger Jimmy Dent nearly fell from a bridge when a trout with a cigar appeared in his sight. The prank involved a trout skin stuffed with cotton and a cigar placed to mislead the ranger. Dent investigated the scene to assess the bizarre display.
Nutritionists urge farm families to focus on protective foods such as fruits vegetables milk eggs meat and cereals. A third of U S families are poorly fed though farm families often have better diets. plan daily servings of milk vegetables fruits whole grains meat and eggs with careful cooking to boost appetite.
The article covers lamb feeding losses, worm and weed control, corn row spacing increasing yields, poultry litter substitutes due to wartime peat shortages, sanitation plans boosting hog profits, and pasture cleanliness reducing costs. It notes specific figures for losses, yields, and price shifts, and mentions seed shortages from Holland affecting rape planting.
A Bureau of Home Economics study finds about one-fourth of U S families maintain good diets while roughly one third are below the safety line. The report notes farm families often have fruits vegetables milk eggs and meat within reach but must produce and use them to benefit their diet.
Instructions describe making a moist dough topping for rhubarb with shorting milk and optional orange rind, plus a method to steam bake in a dish for six servings. It then shifts to rug care: resizing by glue solution, stretching, brushing, and drying, recommending two thin coats.
The record covers Iowa truck crops valued at 1 418 000 in 1940 and national spring pig crop estimates near 42 million. It notes limited profitability with ground corn for pigs, nitrogen in soybean roots, returning plant material to soil, lamb feeding with bluegrass and legumes, bloat risks on clover or alfalfa, pre shipping cattle conditioning, and dense plant sap in asparagus making salting deadly to weeds.
A vintage recipe snippet offers Asparagus Stacka using one large bunch asparagus and liver sausage on buttered toast with a cream sauce. It also hints at a Rhubarb Cobbler dessert featuring pink rhubarb, flour, baking powder, salt, shortening, milk, sugar and stewed rhubarb.
The article discusses pasture types for dairy cows and the impact of soybeans in rations. It notes cows can tolerate slightly more fat from beans than previously thought, and explains how environmental factors and seasonal changes affect butterfat tests, with peaks in January and February and lows in July and August.
The U S Bureau of Labor Statistics records 159 fewer strikes in 1939 than 1938, totaling 2,813 for the year. The decline reflects a quieter labor climate as industrial actions ease across sectors.
Cardinal Denis Dougherty of Philadelphia becomes the first American Catholic bishop to serve in the Philippines, marking a historic ecclesiastical milestone for the U S mission in Asia.
A spring pitch blends home improvement ideas with cheerful pragmatism. It promotes a cool sleeping porch from a local dealer, highlights low costs versus trifles, and suggests getting estimates. It also includes light humor and a few brief ads on divorce jokes and roofing comparisons with Mule-Hide Cor-Du-Roy roofs.
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