Purple and White Tattler Highlights School Highlights
The Purple and White Tattler, weekly high school publication edited by Betty Schneider with assistants, lists staff roles and student pages. It includes classroom notes from Primary through Freshman sections, featuring health charts, farm unit projects, reading work, geography unit tests, art ship drawings, grade reports, and student government elections.
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Betty Schneider
Betty Schori
Betty Strauch
Junior Class News Announces Semiannual Leas Party
The junior class plans a semiannual leas party in West Union next Wednesday night. After much debate the group selected the much talked about film Mrs Miniver and will provide transportation.
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West Union
Mrs. Miniver
Sophomores Advance in Home Economies Canning
Sophomore girls completed a series of practical lessons in canning vegetables and fruit by open-kettle and hot-water bath methods, plus making jelly and apple butter. They wrote tests and will begin a study of dinnerware with new drawing boards for blueprints.
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Claus
Eighth Grade News and School Choir Roster
Eighth graders review fractions areas and the bestward movement in history. Science Unit 1 finished. Girls Epextet members listed. Birthday announcements include William Moore James Daniels Burnel Benson and others.
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William Moore
James Daniels
Burnel Benson
Kenneth Larson
Miss Krehn
Jack Hanson
Viola Martin
Merlin Miller
Donald Little
Meet the Seniors Virleygene Bailey of Elgin High
Virleygene Bailey, 17, senior class president, active in basketball Glee Club band and sextet. Her hobbies include reading and economics, enjoys fried chicken, blue as favorite color, and hopes to attend college for four years then work in decorating.
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Virleygene Bailey
Virleygene
Glee Club
Paris
Elgin High
Elgin Area News Briefs Report Local Activities
Last Thursday Mrs. Strong organized new gym classes with basketball sessions on Thursdays. Phyllis Frieden, former Elgin High student, visited this week. Harvey Gilbertson joined the Army Reserve and attends Luther College in Decorah. Paul Pulfer works on his father’s farm southeast of Elgin. Mavis Dursher serves as a private secretary at First Trust & Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids.
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Garis
Alummi Harvey Gilbertson
Luther College
Decorah
Paul Pulfer
Elgin
Mavis Dursher
Cedar Rapids
First Trust & Savings Bank
Farm Wage Trends and Harvest Tips for 1942
The text notes rising farm wage rates since 1946 with increases in 1941 and 1942. It advises on choosing four suitable hybrid seeds, adjusting mapping rollers, and using small combines for harvesting soybeans and corn. It mentions War Production Board fertilizer guidance, housing poultry, and delaying harvest to prevent shattering in beans and soybeans during maturation.
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War Production Board
Hogging down crops and dairy feeding in wartime Iowa
The text outlines farming changes for wartime relief, urging hogging down corn after maturity and feeding dairy cows with roughage, noting scarce labor, high costs, and abundant Iowa roughage. It warns of fire hazards and cites President statements about a national fire prevention week alongside Japanese artists painting from the floor.
War Corsage For A War Mother and Dad
Racine Wisconsin couple Mr and Mrs Chris O Peterson were honored as War Corsage recipients at a ceremony hosted by Master Harris Farm Implement Company. Brig Gen Donald Armstrong presented a corsage of War Savings Stamps as the Army announced tank production three months ahead of schedule. Peterson works at the local tank plant and has three sons serving in the fighting forces.
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Racine, Wis
America
Chris O. Peterson
Racine
Donald Armstrong
Peterson
Mastey-Harris Farm Implement Company
Army
Chris Peterson
Four-Motored Japanese Bomber Goes Down Over South Pacific
World War II photo captures a four engine Japanese bomber in the South Pacific doomed after a battle with a flying fortress. The image highlights Allied air power and the Pacific theater air clash.
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South Pacific
Seventh Air Force
Spee-D-Hone sharpener aids razor blade reuse
Chicago readers learn of Spee-D-Hone, a cheap sharpener made from surplus abrasive powder used in airplane engine parts. If half of American shavers rehoned blades to thirty shaves per blade, over 10,000 tons of cutlery steel could be saved annually, easing razor blade shortages during wartime.
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Chicago
Wilma Paure
Mark Love
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Bernice Brockhus
Violet Landagani
Lois Milieretha
Adrian
Virlergene Bailer
Virleygene Bailer
Maxine Lehman
Beverly Larger
Maxine Nelson
Thelma Larnis
Gard
Joanne Moslex
Alice Becker
Margaret Rippon
Tumni
Verna Groth
Seaps
Beren Kipte
Burton Wolf
Marlene Mozhy
Mavis Miller
Leo &Echob
Mary Jou Becker
Bennis Lou Lantz
Shirley Keusser
Ben Senor
Margie Dennier
Treas
Clifton Kohler
Alusic
Virlevgene Bailey
Shirley Boyle
Anna Mae Schupbach
Norme Torkelson
Betty Strauen
Shirley Frieden
Phyllis Frieden
Midwest
Iowa
Artista
Jap Bomber
Doom
Natural History
Euler
Dr. Miles
Avalon
Norma Shearer
Robert Taylor
Jackass
Athe Tom Tyler and
Bob Steele
Monty Woolley
Roddy McDowall
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England
Priscilla Lane
Kobt
Cummings
Elgin Echo
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