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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1939
Page
4
The guidance explains a method to estimate wallpaper quantity. Add length and breadth of all four walls, multiply by height to get total wall area in square feet. Divide by 30 to estimate rolls needed. Subtract half roll for each ordinary opening to adjust for waste.
The 1939 junior class play The Gay Pretender has been chosen with rehearsals soon. Cotton Blossom Singers from Piney Woods Miss plan a program for Monday Oct 30 at 1 30 pm. School calendar lists Football games, Visitors Day, smallpox vaccination, and Piney Woods visit. classes show shifts to 1 pm start and report on science, home economics demonstrations, and new magazine additions.
In Chicago at Mt Sinai Hospital a 22 year old mother, Mrs. Gertrude Epstein, with infantile paralysis, gave birth to a six and a half pound daughter while encased in an iron lung. Five doctors performed the unprecedented operation in five minutes after two hours of frantic prep. Nurse Sania Sabara holds the newborn.
Automobile manufacturers rely on over 2,200 productive items from about 1,200 outside firms to complete the modern car. The extensive supplier network spans parts, materials, and components essential to assembly and production.
In Cincinnati Ohio a Soundphoto snapshot captures New York members amid city背景. The image shows several individuals posing for a group shot with a backdrop suggesting a public event or gathering in the Ohio city.
Vague reports said sailors aboard the U S flagship Arizona faced cancellation of all leaves after a possible plot to damage the vessel. Naval authorities would not confirm the plot, while the ship served as Rear Admiral Russell Wil son’s flagship of Battleship Division 1 at Los Angeles Harbor.
A 1943 AAA Farm Program covers about 72.5 percent of US cropland. October is ideal for planting bulbs such as tulips and hyacinths. Iowa State College unveils a two year agricul ture course for aspiring farmers. Contour farming helps conserve water and soil. Iowa leads in commercial hatchery capacity with 36 382 000 eggs. Iowa displaced Ohio as the top hatchery state, though Ohio has more hatcheries. Fall weed control should wait for rains. sodium chlorate works best when soil is moist. Hogging down corn declines due to mechanical harvesters and hybrid varieties. Tenant farming rules in Iowa allow continued tenancy under existing terms if not changed by Nov 1, with March 1 lease changes or moves requiring notice. If a renter defaults, only 30 days notice is required for a new tenant.
Several herds and individual cows posted topfat records: Gross Bros Star 60.6, Kenneth Kerr Dora 54.0, Orivia 48.5, Harvey Miller Blacky 48.2, Edgar McDonough Buella 48.1, with multiple herds listed by owners Harry Cline R J, Harvey Miller, Gross Bros, Kenneth Kerr, Wagner Sh, John Lueder, Edgar McDonough and Cummings Faith. Milk yields ranged from 360 to 664 pounds and fats from 16.8 to 60.6 over herd numbers and drying data.
Dredging work near San Juan, Puerto Rico, enhances the harbor serving the $9,000,000 naval air base project. Improvements aid ship access and port operations for the island's capital and largest city.
A September report shows 135 of 435 cows dry. The association average production was 396 lbs of milk and 15.9 lbs of butterfat. The top ten herds include Jerry Spencer R G herd 60 with 0 dry cows, 819 milk, 38.9 fat and Harry Whiteher R and G G herd 24 with 3 dry cows, 506 milk, 24.8 fat.
A playful assemblage of jokes references crowded Chicago direct cars from the American Legion convention. The line about Jiffy Cribs promises quick temporary cribs for corn storage. A pun on inertia contrasts laziness and nervous prostration. A discouraged salesman jokes about Hitler seeking territory.
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