Margin for Error at Avalon and Echo Want Ads note
Milton Berle and Joan Bennett are in Margin for Error at the Avalon next Wednesday evening. Echo has seats set aside for Jor Malone, Clermont. call the Echo office. Lost one set of single truck tire chains between our farm and Elgin. For sale: stock farm 192 acres near Clermont with 100 acres plow land, windmill, springs. Attention land buyers as values rise. Grether's Exchange, Elgin, Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gildersleeve
The
Echo
Lester Butikofer
Elgin
Avalon
Harvey Jarms
ODT
Milton Berle
Joan Bennett
the Avalon
Jor Malone
Clermont
John Christen
J. O Larson
Grether's Exchange
Iowa
Agricultural notes on soils, seeds, and pest control
Guidance on lime use after soil testing, feeding practices to curb cannibalism in chicks, and the importance of hides for leather needs. Advice on seed plate sizing, hay and baling methods, and new harvesting equipment. Poultry marketing aims for uniformity to ease processing plant loads. Pig cholera vaccine options, fly control urgency, and the dangers of house and stable flies. End with a wartime exhortation to defeat Japs.
Liquor Commission Praised for Far Sighted Action
The article notes the Iowa Liquor Commission ordered 275,600 permits with fiery red covers to curb rationing abuses. It discusses safety paper costs and the need for erasure prevention, plus printer S. W. Needham to edit the 1843 44 Iowa official registers known as the red book. It highlights wartime staffing shortages affecting newspapers and hints at women taking larger editorial roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Liquor Commission
S. W. Needham
Iowa
Needham
Morgenthau Secrecy and Jokes During Cedar Rapids Visit
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. visited Cedar Rapids to talk with residents and reveal bond sale progress in the second war loan drive. He teased reporters about scooping Washington and joked about the nation approaching a $13 billion goal, then noted Washington was upset he had scooped himself. He also shared a birthday call to his 87-year-old father and expressed concern for coast guard crew he was flown with, asking if they received a good rate at their hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Portland
Ore
Father
Germany
Woodrow Wilson
Turkey
Morgenthau
Coast Guard
Governor's crowd greets him in hometown moment
In Cedar Rapids the governor, popular in crowds, stops for greetings as townspeople press in. A tense moment follows when his shoulder is tugged and he greets a mother. The city jokes about the nationwide war iband broadcast misnaming Cedar Rapids as a little town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mommie
Mrs. Hickenlooper
Priority ratings for farm stock and poultry feed
If protein shortages occur, small chicks and pigs deserve priority, followed by heavy laying hens and calves. High producing milk cows and hogs over 80 pounds come next, then cattle and lambs with feed. Horses and breeding herds are lowest. Echo advertisers urged to spend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo
Hick Story at Cedar Rapids Parade and Bond Rally
Gov. Rourke and Hickenlooper mingled with crowds during a mile long Cedar Rapids parade and after a war bond rally in the coliseum. Hundreds of Hick friends crowded the reviewing stand to shake his hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Rourke
Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Morgenthau
Hick
Cedar Rapids Coliseum
Iowa State workers urge more soybeans for feed grinding
Iowa State College staff advise farmers add acres of soybeans to boost feed supply by grinding the crop for livestock. The text also asks a question about tire longevity from careful driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State College
Punchy barroom quip set at station stop
A terse exchange mocks a station agent who ignores a request to stop pouring. The humor hinges on a playfully reluctant attitude toward the station worker and the idea of slowing a drink by control. The dialogue wields irony about stomach routes to a heart.
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Want
Charles Hader
Fuller
Fuller Brush Co
Baumgartner
Seabe
Farrow
Walt. Dummermuth
Andrew Dummermuth
Dial
Cobbler’s Steel
Echo Office
Udga
O’neill Drug Company
Max Thoma
Torkelson Bros
Ford
Larson Roofing Con
West Union
Elgin City Hall
Jack Sprat
Charles Kimball
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
R. P. Strauch
South River Road
Maytag
Frederick Sutter
Bertie Waters
Postville
Briggs & Stratton
Fioneer
Joe Dinan
United States
Weibel Mill CO
Elgin, Iowa
Elgin Oil CO
West Union Rendering Works
Enterprise
Waite Nervine Fo Fellet
Crankinens
Bastien
Norfius
Echo-Enterprise
Martin-Senour
Schori & Kuster Lbr. CO
Elgin Farmers . Coop
Max Medberry
Mgr
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