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Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 31, 1940

Page

4

Big gun for a little girl and new Ferguson Highway opening

Lorraine Eades, a top Ontario wing shot, uses a large gun to take her grouse limit as season opens along the new Ferguson Northern Lights Highway, a 300 mile route into Ojibways and trappers country. The Echo also features Conrad Iowa where Eugene Crouse set a world corn husking record with 53.19 bushels net, surpassing prior marks. The piece shifts to National Honey Week, offering honey varieties, storage tips, and a honey cake recipe amid a guide to using honey in cooking.

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What Shall We Eat Escalloped Onions with Crumbs

A simple fall vegetable dish uses bur fall onions sliced or quartered. Precook in salted boiling water, drain, then layer in a baking dish with bread or cracker crumbs. Top with crumbs and bake until browned.

It Happens in the Best of Families

It Happened in the Best of Families describes Judy a tidy makeover in her bedroom. Mather redecorated with Judy to foster beauty through order using pretty boxes hat stands and chintz. A shoe cabinet will be added later as Judy gains painting skills to keep her room neat.

Judy Mather

Cider Year In Iowa Boosts Apple Harvest And Hog Nutrition

Iowa reports a bumper apple crop this year and ranks fourth in the nation for alfalfa hay production. Farmers are advised to balance hog rations with protein for better nutrition and health. For poultry, light placement should aim to illuminate floors for higher egg output, while fertilizing apple trees with barnyard manure helps offset the crop’s heavy demand.

Iowa Nec

Winter farming tips from Iowa agriculture notes

A range of farming guidance covers pig nutrition and housing, chinch bug migration shaping rye pastures in Iowa, turkey production and pricing, evergreen watering before ground freeze, foundation insulation methods, sheep breeding selection through production records, walnut planting guidance, and mange treatment for hogs including lime sulfur dips and cleaning pig housing.

Iowa

Roofs and water, a teacher’s ink wells and navy mornings

A collage of ad snippets and quips promotes Mule-Hide Cor-Du-Roy roofs, water filtration, and home improvement products. Humorous lines about housekeeping and Navy enlistment mingle with shopping pitches and cautionary tales.

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