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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1941
Page
5
A healthful guide extols peppers as rich in vitamins A and C and other nutrients. It offers raw stuffed pepper recipes with meat, corn, and cheese fillings, plus steps to prepare pepper shells, blanch, and bake.
The text covers eradicating poison ivy with dry chemical treatments like sodium chlorate or atlacide before freeze up, outlining perimeter measurement and retreatment until killed. It also advises Iowa poultrymen to use artificial light to boost fall and winter egg production, noting longer laying periods and higher revenues from increased fall and winter output.
Town Farm Kernels wholesale prices rise 21 percent year over year. Nutrition guidance stresses greens milk and eggs. Feeding silage and alfalfa after milking can cut objectionable milk flavors. Iowa dairy herd improvement associations tally 39 375 cows producing 8 567 pounds of milk with 340 pounds butterfat and $73 per cow net return after $54 feed.
Sapula Oklahoma. Willie Mayweather and his brother Floyd, both workers at a negro packing plant, inherit seven million dollars cash after District Judge W O Beavers ordered Sinclair and Minnehoma oil companies to pay heirs cash. The award covers royalties from oil and gas produced on land of Mrs Ozora Alexander Lee who also received cash.
Elgin locals Mr and Mrs L C Pates and Dorothy Independence and Mr and Mrs Frank Weber and children Rowley joined H S Ritchie at dinner Sunday. Ali en Habeger Mrs Louise Little Minneapolis Fred Moser Manchester and Craig Moser Arlington also dined at George Vaughn home. Jake Hoover Mrs Christina Hoover and Fern drove to Cedar Rapids to meet Clara Hoover from Fairfield for a two week visit with her mother.
Mrs J E M asks which is better enriched or old fashioned wholewheat flour. Most say natural wholewheat offers minerals and vitamins. enriched flour suits those who want light, white bread with added iron and B vitamins. Enriched products stay fresher, though many prefer 100 percent wholewheat bread.
An essay urging parents to honestly address the world’s turmoil with children. It argues adults must provide mental security, avoid despair, and foster cool, factual discussion rather than creating escapist fear. It stresses citizen duties and calm guidance over sensationalism.
The nation moves to improve cattle feeding to increase milk for defense. Iowa reports 951 million bushels of wheat, ample stock for another bread year, and urges dairy production growth. Guidance covers dairy farm leases via Iowa State College Extension, tree care after a blizzard, walnut planting for reforestation, and keeping dairy cattle from corn stalks to avoid overfeeding young cows.
Seed costs in the last year reflect tests by six supervisors and 30 part-time analysts at Iowa State College Seed Testing Laboratory since July 1. Iowa seed vendors must test and label products for purity and germination since that date. Three-fourths of Iowa eggs enter commercial channels as shelled or frozen. Over half go to New York Chicago Boston Philadelphia. others mainly stay in Iowa. Eggs contribute about 6 percent of the state's annual farm gross income.
The abrogation of the United States Japan trade treaty removes a municipal bicycle license exemption. The Japanese consul at Manila was notified that he must pay the license fee, ending a long standing tax break.
A collection of short humorous exchanges and old ad lines. Punchlines about marriage to the man in the moon, drafts, storms, and winter comforts mix with advice on home improvement and job honesty. A jokey aside about poker players and dated banter on love and fools rounds out the slice of midcentury humor.
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