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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1942
Page
6
Ardath and Alan Roberts relocate to Pueblo Colorado for about a month with Ardath employed as dining room girl. A flurry of local notices lists visits, birthdays, farm sales, weekend trips and family gatherings across Elgin and nearby towns with multiple named families, towns, and a carload of social events.
Records purchased annually in 1939 reached 60 million while radio phono graphs sales totaled 370000, indicating strong ongoing demand for physical media and related equipment amid broader market shifts.
When fruit is in season, the juices may be extracted and canned for later use in jelly making.
Elgin Baptist Church outlines today events with Mrs. Woman's Missionary Society at 2 pm and a prayer service at 8 pm. Choir rehearsal at 7 pm. Sunday worship and communion at 10 am followed by Sunday school at 11 am. An afternoon worship service and junior meeting are set for 2 pm.
The Lutheran Church announces services on October 4 with St. Olaf at 9 oclock and Marion at 11 oclock both in English. Everyone is welcome at each service. Dr. S. J. Strandford, Pastor.
A spiritual feast will be in store for Baptist church members and friends in a series of special services from Oct 11 to 25 with Rev. R P Bronleewe as guest speaker. Beforehand he will spend four days with Baptist members near Sumner from Oct 6 to 9.
Friday evening at 7 30 o clock the Methodist Church choir will rehearse at the home of C B Schori. Joseph C Warton serves as Minister.
Five years after a dog named Faddie was transported in a car trunk to a distant western Iowa home, he slipped away and vanished. He was later found asleep in his old Hopkinton bed, ending a long odd chapter in the animal’s wandering. Nearby, private Ingvard Anderson in Ireland sent his mother $200 in two $100 checks. she invested the funds in calves and a war bond. Retired farmer Mons Tweet of Decorah grows Jerusalem cherry trees bearing blossoms green berries and ripe fruit together, a winter indoor plant. An 88-year-old Knoxville retiree, John Murray, has subscribed to the Knoxville Express for over five decades. A St Louis Cardinals scout recently visited Kosuth county to evaluate pitching talents of Edward Long and Vic Johnson in Algona.
Special CBI photo to the Echo from Pauline R. Reynolds shows William W. Sanders still engaged in newspaper work after completing 70 years in the field. Sanders began as an apprentice on the Brownville Democrat in 1872, published and edited papers across Nebraska, led the Garretson News from 1909, then took over the Dell Rapids Tribune in 1925 and has remained editor since.
Scientists at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh say men shave best after first soaking their beards for 180 seconds in water heated to 120 degrees. The shaving art is called Pogonotomy, named from the Greek.
The short eared owl ears act as sensitive microphones. While flying high, the birds can hear the tiny squeaks of field mice on the ground below.
Early efforts to introduce European starlings failed but after establishment the birds spread rapidly and multiplied, becoming a widespread pest.
Ernst Udet ranks near the top of the Nazi air force, behind Goering, credited with downing 62 Allied planes in World War I.
Timber wolves are among the largest canids, thriving in the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains. They reach impressive lengths and rank among the world’s biggest wolf species, highlighting their size and geographic range.
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