Iowa Health Dept Urges Sleep Breakfast For School Absentees
The Iowa State Department of Health urges parents to ensure children get enough sleep and eat a nutritious breakfast to reduce absenteeism. They recommend school health checks, immunizations, and varied hot lunches, plus proper lunch packing. Also notes farm and silo maintenance tips for farmers including feed, silage, and garden tasks.
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Iowa State Department of Health
Health Department
Iowa
Good Salads for All Seasons From Iowa Extension
Iowa State College extension specialists promote Good Salads a new booklet with ideas for summer and winter entertaining. They urge varied salads from main dish to dessert and refreshment types, with practical tips on preparation, serving, garnishing, and matching meals.
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Iowa
Bulletin
Agricultural Extension Service
Iowa State College
Duck Superstitions in Cato and Scottish Beliefs
A fragment describes Cato’s supposed affection for ducks to protect family health and notes ancient Scottish lore that a fever could be cured if a sick person slept with a goose or duck. The text preserves curious historical beliefs about poultry and healing practices.
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Cato
Scotland
First Colonial Patent Granted for Water-Powered Saw Mill
On March 6 1646 Massachusetts General Court received a petition from ironworker Joseph Jenken seeking recognition of the originality of his water power sawmill. The colonial patent was issued by the authorities, marking an early American engine for mills powered by water.
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Joseph Jenken
General Court of
Massachusetts
Palmer Named Iowa Head for 1948 March of Dimes
King R Palmer a Des Moines businessman and civic leader is named Iowa State Chairman of the 1948 March of Dimes. It marks his third straight year heading the fund raising drive for polio care and research. The national appeal runs in January and supports the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its 2800 local chapters.
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King R. Palmer
Des Moines
Iowa
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation For
National Foundation
Palmer
U. S. Air Corps
Iowa Board of Social Welfare
O'Conner
United Stat
Paw
Munich student pays piano lessons in groceries
Coffee loving Lucille Hildebrand of Waukon now living in Munich takes piano lessons. She rents the instrument monthly from its German owner for two pounds of coffee and one can of margarine. Each lesson costs two cans of milk.
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Lucille Hildebrand
Waukon
Munich
Germany
Contusion Description of Periorbital Injury Quoted
Medical phrasing describes a black eye as contusion of the periorbital tissue with subcutaneous bleeding and swelling. It notes conjunctival echhymensis and discoloration, epidermal abrasion, and supramalar surface swelling.
Sunday Guests at Peter Luchsinger Home in Elgin
Local visitors included Mr and Mrs Hoover Luchsinger and family plus Linda John Frietag Marie Fornier and Mr and Mrs Ervin Bucholtz from Anoka Minnesota Sheldon Kohlk relieved at Rock Island station Kane Town for two weeks Guests Saturday included Bucholtz Donna and Marie Fornier Gerald Frieden returned to Indianola after vacation Robert Miller family visited Sheldon Boyle Lyle Leath home and Casper Seidler wedding Arthur Joseph Maxine from Milwaukee visited Lorence Muehlethaler Joe Hubiak and son from Chicago Philip Hogan joined family at Sheldon Boyle home Claire Nelson Estherville visited Lorence Muehlethaler Walter Ladd Ruth from Muskegon left after three weeks Indians used bone flint and abalone shells for fish hooks Leonardo da Vinci devised a machine for sharpening hooks
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Peter Luchsinger
Jacoéb Hoover
John Luchsinger
Lester Luchsinger
Linda
John Frietag
Marie Fornier
Ervin Bucholtz
Anoka
Minn
Sheldon Kohlk
Kane
Town
Rock Island
Donna
Anoka, Minn
Gerald Frieden
Indianola
Robert Miller
Oelwein
Sheldon Boyle
Sam Lehman
Charles City
Lyle Leath
Casper-Seidler
Arthur Joseph
Maxine
Milwaukee
Wis
Lorence Muehlethaler
Joe Hubiak
Chicago
Philip Hogan
Claire Nelson
Estherville
Walter Ladd
Ruth
Muskegon, Mich
Community Guests At Helmer Lyngass Home
Grand Meadow neighbors visit, with notes on Mr. and Mrs. Don Nevens and relatives from California Van Horn Clermont and Dubuque. Ernest Holt returns from North Dakota Minnesota trip. Many local homes host dinners and visits while a threshers meeting occurred at Clarence Olson home. Run an Echo Want Ad and Watch the Results.
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Helmer Lyngans
Don Nevens
Mary ‘Nevens
California
Hosa Grovert
van Horn
Harold Triem
Georgene
Clermont
Ernest Holt
North Dakota
Minnesota
Joe Kjosa
Keith
Kathryn
Julia Landsgard
Alvin Halverson
Agnes
Louise Bilden
Ole Peterson
Mina Olgan
Earl Opperman
Dubuque
Helmer Lyngass
Johnnie Opperud
Paintings Found in Gibb River Cave Northwestern Australia
In northwestern Australia a team led by Howied Coate of Derby rediscovered a cave near the Gibb River about 100 miles from Derby. Using old notes by Sir George, bearings and maps guided the search. A large cave yielded ancient paintings with the biggest figure measuring about 19½ feet long and 5 feet high.
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Australia
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Sumner
Clay Rusk
Fairfield
March of Dimes
THE
Elgin Echo
Elgin
America
Leonardo da Vinci
Grand Meadow News
Louis Schutter & Son
Clermont. and ‘Postville
Funeral Home
Robin Hood
Baechler’s
Furniti
Macy
Hoover
Philco
Met&t
Java
Raneous
John Ang
S. K. Langsdale
Elgin State Bank
Orvin Thompson
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