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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
4
An advertiser promotes affordable fire insurance through a local company. It claims rates of $2.25 per thousand for home contents, $6 per year for a $3,000 policy, and $4.95 per year for additional coverage, urging readers to contact RB, P. Straueh, Insurance.
The Archbishop of Canterbury takes precedence at state occasions after the sovereign and immediate royal kin, establishing highest church rank in the realm.
Berne Indiana reports Miss Betty Schindler a senior named May Queen for Manchester College May Day celebration on May 3. She is daughter of Mr and Mrs Vilas Schindler of Bern. She is active in campus affairs and a slender brunette.
A mixed regional column shares asparagus cooking methods and tips plus garden notes. It covers cleaning, trimming, boiling approaches, and color preservation, then moves through frosting ideas, late-summer planting guidance, beet and rhubarb tips, a fresh lettuce fruit salad, and homemade furniture polish formulas for home use.
A recipe for dandelion greens with a salt pork sauce. Rinse and boil young leaves 8 to 10 minutes until tender. Brown cubed salt pork, render fat, add water and vinegar. Pour hot sauce over greens and serve immediately. Includes steps for washing greens, cooking time, and sauce ratios.
Dunlap remains a satisfactory strawberry variety but yields are challenged by newer varieties. Iowa farmers plan to cut 1940 corn acreage and offset partly with more soybean planting. Over 2,000 4-H boys from 99 counties finished market pig projects in 1939 and over 1,400 completed purebred pig projects. All sheep sold through Iowa sale barns after May 1 must be dipped except direct to slaughter per state veterinarian. Farmers urged to continue spring planting.
A reader asks Nora Workman how to prevent dust cloth leaving a dull surface and how to remove a smudged finish from furniture. The answer cautions avoiding excess polish and suggests careful cleaning to restore shine without buildup.
The seed of timothy, barley, oats and soybeans is germinating below normal this season. Milk cows on farms are forecast to rise nearly 2 percent as more heifers are added to milking herds while recent cow marketings have been low. Early full feeding with protein supplements for pigs on spring pasture speeds gains and allows timely hog sales before market breaks.
The note lists mail order prices for Standard Hex and Mule-Hide shingles with plain and corrugated styles, compares costs, and mentions enamel prices and a series of humorous exchanges about castor oil and optimism. It ends with a nudge to use Martin-Senour Paints.
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