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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1942
Page
4
The article warns that during wartime upheaval teens face intensified stress from relocation, parental absence, and disrupted discipline. It urges families to provide wholesome companionship, activities, health care, education, and a protective environment to shield children from wartime strain and unwise patriotism.
Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Winter set the high price at 16.50 per cwt for the champion Angus baby beef from the Madison county 4-H Club fair. The sale averaged 14.58 per cwt with an average weight of 906 pounds across animals sold. OWA BEATS HUIDINI injun ct ion tale involves sheriffs in Grundy and Franklin counties. A Portland Oregon hotel bill tale and an obituary note about the C and N W Pumpkinvine branch.
Homemakers support the war effort by canning garden produce. The guide outlines three requisites for success: excellent food, proper equipment, and sufficient processing time. It explains steps from selecting and washing to precooking, packing, and sterilizing jars, plus acid versus non acid foods and processing methods for preserving vitamins and safety.
Four years of state wide testing mark Kanyale as Iowa's top yielding and most lodging resistant winter wheat among ten varieties. The piece also covers wartime fat needs, use of dead animals for rendering, and urging farmers to prepare flocks and beekeepers to maintain stores and feeding.
An advertisement urges buyers to purchase a large quantity of Choice Heavy Oats this fall. It offers a special delivery price and invites calls or visits before 5:00 p.m. on Saturday September 12, warning not to delay and promising potential savings.
The Mill will be closed Monday and Tuesday September 14 and 15. Custom grinding should reach our mill by no later than 3 p m Saturday, since we close at 5 p m.
Iowa farmers are urged to raise protein levels in hog and cattle rations to cut feed costs as soybean meal remains a strong buy despite needing more minerals when used with tankage. Emphasis is placed on vaccination for hog diseases, especially cholera, with timing at 8 to 10 weeks old for best immunity and economy.
Iowa health department warns times are tight and calls for student nurses. Immediate need of at least 100 new students to meet class quotas across about 10 nursing schools. College women and high school graduates urged to apply for federal or local scholarships to start training. Iowa must respond now to avert disruption.
A speaker argues that expanding the nursing workforce is crucial for state stability, noting that understaffed hospitals threaten war production. He says maintaining health of workers and producers is as vital as manufacturing bullets or growing grain, and praises young women entering nursing for supporting the objective.
A study shows digestive juices dissolving metals fed to rodents. A steel ball bearing placed in a rat’s stomach for 15 days lost 24 percent of its weight, illustrating the dissolving action of gastric fluids on metals.
An old broadcast style notice urges homeowners to act now to stockpile coal and weatherize, citing rising transport costs and long-term savings on insulation storm sash caulking and window doors. A series of quips and jokes follows, reflecting a postcard era humor tone.
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