Pipe Dreams and War News From Home Front
Richs Pipe Dreams comments on soldiers reported killed in action later found alive, with a chaplain's burial officiation turned notice. The piece notes homecomings, remarried widows, and wartime uncertainty plus local highway planning chatter. It also questions the warm weather, corn crops, and tax spending by the 1945 legislature via Joe Long of the Iowa Taxpayers Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. K
Joe Long
Iowa Taxpayers Assn
Joe
Gay Gadgets and Perfume Tricks Revealed
A playful guide from soda fountain sleuths offers light hearted beauty tips. Bright Lights suggests perfuming electric bulbs to scent rooms and conjure movie star glamour. Bureau Blossoms recommends scented soaps and blotters for fragrant drawers.
Trixie Teen Warns Against Overdoing Party Life
A teen cautions against striving to be the life of every party noting that louder behavior fails to win listeners. She warns girls not to press for attention with all the boys and suggests that such acts can ruin the social scene rather than improve it.
Sympathy prompts skunk naming controversy at zoo
Article notes two young skunks at the Philadelphia Zoo were named Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussoline, sparking concern over animals’ naming. It comments on humor and current events while weaving in brief quips about money, politics, and rationing. The piece references a Burlington theft of pantyhose and a Burlington Echo mention.
High School Year Ends With Notable Extracurriculars
The Purple and White Tattler recaps a year of achievements at Elgin High. Football posted four wins and one loss, while basketball saw the first team go 17 and 8 and the second team 6 and 1. The junior play The Custer's Last Stand drew laughs and the senior play Grandma Steps Out impressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custer
Dalmaceo
Fayette
Fat Henry
Copper Mine Gulch
Helen Demo
Miss Demo
Elgin
Remembering Mary Skarshaug and local notes
Mrs Mary Skarshaug returned from Mt Vernon where she visited her daughter Frances a Cornell College student and attended the schools May festival. Edward Grimm and daughter Rose sail on the 28th for Switzerland to visit relatives for about three months. Max Thoma owns a new Essex automobile. Glen Schori returned from Cedar Rapids to stay home after finishing business college. Mr and Mrs Balz Kamm near West Union have a son born April 27 named Harold. Mr and Mrs Ray DeSart and Chas Grover went to Nashua for an Odd Fellows state gathering to see The Little Brown Church in the Vale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Skarshaug
Mt. Vernon
Frances
Cornell College
Edward Grimm
Rose
Switzerland
Max Thoma
Glen Schori
Cedar Rapids
Glen
Business College
Balz Kamm
West Union
Harald
Elgin
Ray DeSart
Chas
Grover
Nashua
Odd Fellows
Little Brown
The
Vale
Order
Birthday listings by date for May birth announcements
A sequence of May birthdays is listed by date with names including Clifford Feller Nona Mark Genevieve Dunkle Mabel Holzer and others through May 16 featuring individuals such as Lloyd Reierson Leo Christen and William Possehl, indicating a local social notice. The text reads as a community birthday roll call with multiple names under each May day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Feller
Nona Mark
Genevieve Dunkle
Mabel Holzer
Clarence H. Olson
Julia Halverson
Mardella West
Mel Kohler
Burnell M. Olson
Tom Holm
Rose Wolf
Leo Dennler
Joan Lyford
Alving Frieden
Ruby Benson
Arthur Amundson
Ida Frieden
Lizzie Thorson
Jean Morris
R. V. Brandt
Elva Mae Lerch
Ray DeSart
Herman Stindel
Ernest the Holzer
Kenneth M. Schori
Georgana Falk
Donald Frieden
Alma Anderson
Otto J. Blockhus
Lloyd Reierson
Leo Christen
William Possehl
Fileen Thoma
Francis Wolf
Kenneth Medberry
Audrey Sutter
Chas, Capper, Jr
Bonnie Howard
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Elgin Echo
DIAL
Elgin, Iowa
R. P. Strauch
Fayette County
Iowa
Rich
Pipe Dreams
Alden Pinney
Echo
Missouri
Canada
Mexico Gulf
Alden
Northeast
Towa
U. S
Gladys Parker
Byard
By Nancy Pepper
D.B
Luther Burbank
Kansas
Cincinnati Inquirer
Shirley
Burlington
OPA
Loiacoe
Georgana Falb
Owen Nickels
Shirley Boyle
Anna Bane
Margie Dennler
Norma Torkelson
Alma R. Grimes
Jane Falb
Avis L. Mark
Alta Larson
Amy Torkelson
Bertha J. Casper
Betty Christen
Shirley Frieden
Guttenberg
Upper Iowa University
State University of Iowa
Demo
Sammy Kaye
Billy Williams
McGregor
Germany
Japan
Bertha Casper
James Bovis
Dean Torkelson
Evanile Frieden
Eileen
Jene
Hollywood
Katrolin Falk
Chicago
Helen Wenger
John Butikofer
Billy
Laura
Independence
Junior Larson
Georgana
Hias
Alma Ruth
Clif
Woody Herman
Billy Minihan
Karolin
Gerald
Elgin Echo Stationers Office
Tom Owens and
His Cowboys
Elgin State Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Wadena
Laurence Knudtson
Italy
Torio
Massolini-Hitler
Interstate Power
Roddy Kilowatt
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