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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1944
Page
4
In emergencies dial 2711. Torkelson Bros., Elgin, handle urgent jobs. Also notices for Avalon showings and guest invitations. Community classifieds include for sale items: two out-buildings at Clermont, Berkshire boars, corn lots, feeder pigs, and a free Avalon show ticket pickup.
Around Iowa Seventeen recounts Millie Curtis of Waverly voting repeatedly in presidential elections. An 85-year-old man voted first in 1880 when Garfield won. A rubbish fire incident in Algona wounded Claudia Pollard with bullets from burned trash. Indianola pupils learn barter in 6th grade. A false alarm in Sibley due to a fly spraying mist. State Game Warden Garfield Harker of Maquoketa shoots a mallard limit of 15 from a flock of about 200 ducks, earning the nickname Deadeye Dick.
Radium serves mainly in medical treatment to destroy malignant tissues forming 85 percent of its uses. A paradox arises as its primary role is tissue destruction to enable normal tissue construction. The remaining uses include luminous coatings for instruments and other industrial jobs.
Gardeners sow a small batch of radish seed with carrot parsnip parsley and beet seeds once the soil is prepared. An early quick germinating radish marks the row and matures before the main crop is crowded, aiding early harvests.
The text advises against discarding a harrow, noting it has almost no reason for disposal if not neglected. It emphasizes annual repair as part of its care and upkeep.
Motorists using gasoline to travel to winter resorts risk losing mileage rations as the OPA rules that seasonal trips do not constitute a bona fide change of residence and thus do not qualify for special rations. Tenant farmers receive fertilizer price aid while landlords may not add markups beyond the retail ceiling. Cigarettes remain unrationed despite war shortages as production soars for civilian and soldier use.
Land policy piece by Claude R. Wickard warns of a farm land boom similar to postwar spikes. He notes rising land prices, potential foreclosures, and warns veterans and farmers against inflated purchases, urging war bonds instead. The discussion is followed by a brief note that Boy Scouts exceeded a waste paper collection goal of 100000 tons over August and September.
Taxes wiped out Lake County tax rolls. In Painesville on the Lake lake front lots once valued at 1600 dollars are now appraised at 10 dollars. Erosion has swallowed land and forced some buildings into the lake or to be moved to preserve them.
The Western Canner and Packer notes last year fruit pack on the west coast at 69,000,000 cases and U S total 101,000,000 cases. Vege pack on the west coast 43,000? cases and U S total 206,000,000. Whole U S totals about 307,000,000 cases.
Advice focuses on preventing fires and equipment care, early fertilizer orders, lime for legumes, fall plowing to cut corn borers, farm improvements by tenants, beef cattle roughage efficiency, worm control in sheep, machine grease and tightness checks, seed testing delays at Ames, home bulb forcing secrets for indoor blooms, bulb potting steps, and storage tips for roots and bulbs.
A note advises placing bulbs in good light after removal from darkness to avoid flowering delays and spindly growth. Temperatures should be controlled to support proper bud development and robust blooms.
The article notes lower separation rates among women aged 15 to 19 compared with men of the same age, about nine per 100 married couples for women. It suggests this may stem from women marrying older men who can better meet family needs than teenage grooms.
As a tree thickens the trunk wood expands over branches creating tight knots where limbs are encased. Live limbs keep growing and fuse with the trunk forming natural grafts. When wood grows around dead limbs loose knots result from the encasement.
Grape vines require annual pruning to yield good grapes. Beginners fear the harsh guidance but choosing a system and starting soon with pruning shears is advised. March is the typical pruning month before growth begins, though late pruning after growth starts causes little harm.
The Geiger-Mueller counter, once a device translating radium and cosmic rays into clicks, now aids radium recovery. It directs searchers to heaps and sewers where medical bandages and sweepings end their travels, unveiling new paths for extraction.
A brief note indicates vegetable production has risen since World War I with reference to a person named papi a. enathert and the term New appearing in the fragment, suggesting a historical context or attribution without complete details.
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