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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1946
Page
8
Bors Withell reports from D.C. via wiresx-ray detailing a banking and steel sector dispute involving State Bank and Blkader. The brief item notes tensions, potential investigations, and official stances awaiting clarifications.
The Cheery Valley News lists numerous local visits and gatherings. Roy Peeper and family hosted Sunday supper with John Dennier and Geo Schupbach families. other households such as Harry Butikofer, Wm Moore, Christen Bros, and Albert Erickson Jr hosted or attended fish fries, dinners, and birthday observances. Names include Dennier Dennler Butikofer Nydegger Ikader Erickson Schmid Frieden Butikofer, VanBisen, Raney, Chase, Baumgartner, Nickels, Lehman, Timm, and others in Volga, Alpha, Kansas City and nearby communities.
The Friendly Neighbors club met September 19 with Mrs. Ben Dennler presiding. Officers elected were Mrs. Roscoe Larson president and Mrs. Martin Minihan secretary treasurer. A gift was planned for Walter Butikofer who had been ill. Next meeting set for October 8 at Mrs. John Dennier. Various local guests shared meals and visits at the Schmid and Erickson homes while Lawrence Butikofer's family hosted a picnic gathering with numerous relatives and friends.
Sunday school at 10 15 a m church service at 11 16 a m Rally Day planned by Busy Bees and Christ s Jewels on Oct 13 Twenty youth attended the Dubuque District Youth Fellowship Rally in Fayette. Local families hosted dinners visits and callers ranged across Guttenberg Clermont Maynard West Union and Iowa Falls with numerous social events and hospital reports.
A sequence of social visits fills the week with many families hosting relatives and friends. Names include Perry Medberry Minihan Yearous Lehman Heck and Barrack families plus several others visiting in Elkport Arlington Washington and Dubuque. A Rally Day church program is planned for October 16 by Christ Jewel and Busy Bees groups. Fishing trips to northern Wisconsin are noted for Page Pulfer Hinton and Roscoe Larson.
Mrs Kerr and children spent Friday with the Wim Nutting home. Carl Martin of Clermont visited the Dan Craft home. George Craft and Wayne from Wisconsin came Friday, visiting relatives through Monday. Several others stopped by and hosted or attended gatherings at various homes including Lyon, Mott, Barker, Craft, Reed, and Button households.
Gunder News reports Arlene Peterson Francis Peterson Betnita Landsgard Violet Landsgard attended a teachers' meeting at Loras College in Dubuque last Friday. Multiple local families visited other homes and spent time together Sunday evening and Friday evening at Waterloo Decorah and nearby homes.
The page lists numerous regional visits and social events. Residents from Ames and nearby towns hosted and visited relatives, attended picnics and dinners, and traveled to Chicago, Cedar Rapids, and Decorah for graduations, hospital events, and concerts. Families named include Skarshaug, Jacobson, Loftsgard, Anderson, Loftsgard, Olson, Mork, and Halvorson among others.
Mr and Mrs Leo Larson and Adrian spent Friday to Monday visiting the Larry Walters and Falmer Nesvick families in Mankato Minnesota. Mrs Louis Olson and family and Mrs Ernest Peterson and family visited Clarence Olson Wednesday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Bert Lyngaas also noted in the social column.
Advice on storing woolens in boxes or trunks recommends generous moth flakes or carbaryl. Typically four ounces provide protection, but overrisking with safe, inexpensive chemicals is advised to ensure protection from pests.
Water-glass preserved eggs perform well for scrambling omelets and other cooking, but are less satisfactory for poaching frying or soft cooking in the shell, according to test notes.
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A short tip suggests using potatoes as stuffing to save bread when preparing meat fillings or pails. This practical suggestion promotes economical cooking by replacing part of the bread with mashed or finely chopped potatoes to stretch fillings.
Ancient Greek boxers fought with guarded ears and noses as jokes about broken ears circulated. Ear protections were used, and the rules bore little difference from those of the modern boxing ring.
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American soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary war enjoyed postage free mail, a franked privilege first granted in January 1776 to those serving in the American War of Independence.
In cities with populations over a million, each resident accounts for more than 420 rides annually on the local transit system.
Feed Most Early Meat can be fed to babies of any age, it is easily digested and as simiated. It is desirable to feed meat at an earlier age than is now generally practiced. Meat in suit able commercially prepared form could probably be recommended as early as two months.
A climbing rose is trained around the trunks of eight tall trees with one growing to cast shade at the top. The pliant stem supports the climb while forming a shaded canopy over part of the area.
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