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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1941
Page
4
A guide to stuffed peppers praising their vitamin richness and flavor. It lists meat, corn, sweetbread, and cheese stuffing options with preparation steps and baking advice, including seed removal, blanching, and stock-bathed baking. The piece emphasizes peppers as healthy, versatile ingredients.
Sapulpa Oklahoma Willie Mayweather left and his brother Floyd, black packing plant workers, inherit seven million dollars in cash after District Judge V O Beavers orders Sinclair and Minnehoma oil companies to pay heirs cash. The funds arise from royalties on oil and gas produced from land owned by Mrs Ozora Alexander Lee who was also awarded cash.
Elgin readers note weekend visiting guests from Independence and Rowley joined H S Ritchie and George Vaughn households for Sunday dinners. Other guests included Louise Little of Minneapolis and Fred Moser of Manchester. The Hoover family drove to Cedar Rapids to meet Clara Hoover visiting Fairfield.
The piece argues parents must provide mental security for children amid turmoil. It stresses avoiding sugar coating events, fostering calm, rational discussion, and preparing kids to be informed, responsible citizens rather than escapists. It warns that adults’ fear can shape children’s outlook and voting behavior.
The drive promotes improved feeding of dairy cattle to boost milk for defense. Wheat crop totals 951 million bushels and ample bread supply expected. The new farm program seeks more milk and dairy output. dairy water bowls recommended. Town State College lease details available via Extension Service Ames. Fall care for seedlings and shade trees stressed after last fall’s blizzard. Nut planting from falling black walnuts advised. keep nuts moist for germination. Keep dairy cattle off corn stalks. initial days on stalks risk excessive corn intake.
Mrs J E M asks which is better enrich ed flour or old fashioned wholewheat. Natural wholewheat has more minerals and vitamins but enriched flour offers white texture with added iron and B vitamins for those who dislike dark grain. Many prefer 100 percent wholewheat bread. enriched flour keeps longer.
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The article urges farmers to reduce cows appetite by eradicating poison ivy with a dry treatment of sodium chlorate or atlacide before freeze up. Measure infested areas with a three foot buffer, apply three pounds per square rod, and retreat surviving plants until killed. Poultrymen are advised to use artificial light to boost fall and winter egg production for higher revenues.
Town Farm kernels wholesale prices are 21 percent higher than a year ago. For nutrition, families need greens milk and eggs. Feeding highly flavored feeds after milking reduces milk odors. Iowa dairy herd of 39,375 cows yields 8,567 pounds of milk with 340 pounds butterfat, with meat associations valuing feed at $54 per cow but returns averaging over $73 per cow.
Seed costs rose in the past year as Iowa seed samples tested by six supervisors and thirty part time analysts since July 1. All Iowa seed vendors must test and label products for purity and germination. Three quarters of Iowa eggs reach commercial channels, mostly shelled or frozen, with half sold to New York Chicago Boston and Philadelphia markets. Eggs provide about 6 percent of the state's annual farm income.
One of the first to feel the abrogation of the United States Japan trade treaty was the Japanese consul at Manila. Previously exempt from a municipal license fee on his bicycle, the consul was informed the exemption no longer applies.
A fragmentary page mixes quips about marriage to the man in the moon with home improvement ads urging storm sash installation and budget upgrades. It includes jokes about hired help, crafts trades, dating quips, and a brief line about a Marine remark, all in a dated humorous tone.
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