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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1940
Page
2
The readable text indicates a student edited issue of The Purple and White Tattler from Elgin High. It contains garbled names, fraternal pleas, test notes, and scattered references to activities, tests, and organizational marks.
Fragmentary OCR text references a party, a meeting, local rates, and names like Bert, Ge, and May. mentions Halloween, Wat, and a public notice style cadence. Content is garbled. no coherent event is extractable beyond scattered political and social references.
A sprawling page of local notes recounts Halloween preparations, family visits, and social events across towns. Names like Cooperav, Reine MavEne, and Wesely Phelps appear among community members hosting gatherings, dinner guests, and weekend visits.
The Wadena News notes a Tuesday appendicitis operation for a local woman and lists numerous guests in the home of B. and Myre H. B. Peterman. It covers anniversaries, dinners, a bridge club gathering, Wolverines basketball, and various visits from family and friends in the community.
President Roosevelt wins a third term in a long page of partly legible returns and partial results. The report notes Republican gains in Pleasant Valley and Clermont Townships, with Willkie carrying several contests and Wilson narrowly defeating Valentine in some locales.
Fred Tim bers, 88 year old farmer from Stouffyville Ontario, Canada, won the first international plowing match held on the Chas Dengler farm at Davenport in connection with the National Corn Husking Championship last week. He has participated in Canadian plowing matches for eight consecutive years.
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