Elgin High Purple and White Tattler Highlights Senior Day and School Life
The Elgin High School yearbook notes seniors preparing to leave and promising to return for visits, praises the new staff, and recalls May baskets, a Maypole, and classroom activities across grades. It covers Senior Day at Luther College Decorah, progress in geography, history, and open-air humor, plus sports results and upcoming sectional play.
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Elgin
South America
Peru
Chile
Argentina
Ecuador
Bolivia
Mediterranean
Italy
Greece
Egypt
New York City
United States
Hach
Elgin High
Luther College
Decorah
Northwestern-Luther
Wadena High School
Reed’s
Delwein
E. B., Ramsey
Clermont
Roberts
West Union
Anna, Fennell
Wilder
Mattocks
Loretta Mattocks
F. R. Feller
Lawrence Whitcher
Oklahoma City
Okla
Whitcher
Oklahoma Air College
Yukon
Richard Ellinger
Great Lakes
Oscar Hinkel
Milford Holtagman
Colorado
Anna Poor
Holtzman
Oregon
William Nelson
Roy LeLonhart
J.C. Kennedy
Arthur Herrling
Ray Herwig
Marjorie Herwig
Oelwein
G. P. Clark
Postville
Carl Cox
Merl Bond
Camp
San Luis Obispo
Mrs
Rob. Bond
Sugar rationing cooperation and school closure noted
Six retail establishments eighteen restaurants bee keepers and factories joined the sugar rationing program. There was no school on Monday due to sugar registration at the school house and the students did not object.
Jack Boleyn Seeks Wings With Army Air Corps
Gerald Boleyn known as Jack, twenty years old, plans to join the Army Air Corps. Born February 9, 1922, he is an eccentric student who favors Look magazine, enjoys dancing and women, baked beans with bacon, and listening to news flashes. He is athletic, dislikes reading, and loves sport clothes and orchestras.
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Gerald Boleyn
Jack
Army Air Corps
Look
Paris
Baco i
Glee Club
Strawberry Bed Mulch and Irrigation Practices
The guide advises not removing mulch from strawberry beds until plants show distress, leaving some mulch to let plants emerge. It notes 73 percent of roots lie in the upper 3 inches, making irrigation profitable. It details Bordeaux mixture with lead arsenate for sprays and outlines leaf spot and leaf roller as Iowa’s chief problems with timing for first and possible second and third applications.
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Iowa
Garden guidance and community notes from Wadena era
The excerpt covers gardening practices for early planting, soil, spacing, andMulching, plus crop thinning, weed control, and succession planting. It then transitions to local news from Wadena, detailing high school events, banquets, sermons, and staff notices, along with personal community updates and a WWII era employment joke.
Cripps and Nehru clash over dominion offer in India
In New Delhi Sir Stafford Cripps and Indian nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru appeared cordial yet firm. Nehru refused friendship to sway policy as Cripps efforts to win India to the United Nations war effort with dominion status were rejected. A broadcast from India Sunday night quoted Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton saying U S air forces in India had been fighting the enemy since early April.
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New Delhi
India
Sir Stafford Cripps
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Sir Stafford
United Nations
Nehru
Cripps
Lewis H. Brereton
United States Air Forces
Irrigation Strategy For Seasonal Gardens On Same Land
The text explains that a vegetable garden on the same land benefits from supplemental irrigation nearly every year. It notes that 1 inch of water per week would suffice if rainfall were uniform, but irregular rainfall creates dry spells. Watering during these dry periods can be profitable to cover the deficit.
Pilot of United Airlines plane dies in Utah crash
Chicago, Ir inland report that Donn W. Brown, captain pilot of the United Airlines sleeper transport, and crew died after the Salt Lake City crash last Saturday. Fourteen passengers and three crew members perished, along with twelve killed in three Army plane crashes over the weekend.
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Chicago
Donn W. Brown
United Airlines
Salt Lake
City
Neva Cantwell
Seeds production to rise amid higher acres and yields
The gathering notes that most vegetable seed output will increase this year due to expanded acreage and better yields. A French physician warns pneumonia is a major death cause in old age, while 1938 imports show 147,505,104 bushels of corn valued at 4,497,080 dollars. Jan Ignace Paderewski is noted as a former Premier of Poland.
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Anay
Perlex
Perlex Company
Southern Ridge
Chicago
Illin
Julien Bescanon
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Betty Strayen
Harvey Gilbertson
Anna Schupbach
Lois Mille
Verile
Bailey
Hazel Gilbertson
Betty Schor
Georganna Falk
Mabel Grimm
Betty Strauch
Betty Ann Schneider
Japan
Australia
Charley Chaplin
Johnnie
Jack B
Dale
Otis
Maxine L
Miss Dunkle
Mr. Strong
Fayette County
Barker
Wadena
Aga
Etter
Victory
Towa State College
Wadena News
Executive Department
Aubrey Guyer
Jan Ignace Paderewski
Poland
Ium
Echo-Enterprise
Elgin Echo
Elgin, Iowa
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