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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1942
Page
4
An advising feature encourages storing yellow vegetables such as carrots sweet potatoes squash pumpkins and rutabagas for winter. It covers storage temperatures curing times and preparation methods plus tips on using butter cream and a touch of sugar to boost flavor.
Stradivari known for violins and also made guitars with some surviving examples. An incident near Adel involving Harry Stine, a Dallas County road worker, describes a caterpillar machine and a fleeing fawn. Iowans on the Alaska highway project plan to return to Iowa for winter and resume work in March as a rough trailway and future widening are noted.
Laura Appelman travels to Wichita to seek work in a defense plant. Several local residents host, visit, and attend events across Brainard and nearby towns including Elgin, Hawkeye, and Clermont. Numerous dinner and lunch gatherings noted, with Clark, Peters, and Boyer families frequently mentioned, along with PTA and clinic plans.
Cattle feeding in the western states is expected to shrink this year while sugar use in the United States remains high at about 475000 tons monthly from home crops and imports. Cholera vaccination is urged for Iowa hogs as prices rise and disease spreads. Strawberries need mulch to guard next year’s crop from winter extremes after a September freeze. most livestock moves by truck remain widespread in interior Iowa. Town seed corn germination held up after late September freezes, garden soil lacks nutrients for potted houseplants, and sand leaf mold or peat enrich soil mix. Butter storage shows a dairy shortage likely to trigger rationing as Oct 1 stocks fall from 203 to 126 million pounds. Want ads still deliver results.
A damaged clipping notes a photo related to Stalingrad and cites a Nazi source. The readable fragment references wartime material and suggests an official or propagandist context without detailing events or outcomes.
Snowball named queen of New Jersey state fair lambs plans to safeguard wool with a cedar chest. Shearings from Snowball and fifteen similar lambs are needed to craft a laskin-lamb flying suit worn by Army and Navy pilots and bombardiers, a display tied to wartime conservation and defense efforts in Trenton.
A jumble of vintage ad snippets urges insulation, waterproofing, paint, and fuel-saving steps. It touts free estimates for stormproofing, stocking weatherproofed products in all sizes, and claims warmth and protection against upcoming cold winds, ending with a Mule-Hide waterproofing pitch.
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