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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
4
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For sale 41 acre improved farm 1 to 2 miles south of Wadena on a good graveled road with buildings. Also selling an extra good circulating oil heater like new. Old newspapers offered at Echo office. Railway crossings delays in England cause 100,900 daily hold ups totaling substantial lost working days annually.
Herbert Rees exhibited a 23 pound Short horn named 1940 Model at the Iowa State Fsr Junior Steer Show. The animal drew ringside comment during the judging as the six contenders weighed merits for the popular choice award.
A vintage recipe outlines Fresh Peach Tapioca with milk, peaches, and whipped cream serving six, noting how peach flavor blends during cooking and milk requirements for adults and children. An adjacent discussion highlights Nylon’s silk-like smoothness, abrasion resistance eight times greater than silk, quick drying, and potential drawbacks for hosiery fit and slipping with movement.
The text discusses maintenance of concrete tile brick and other silo materials and notes older bee colonies may need requeening. It highlights fall as a time to inspect fences including electric fences, with Underwriters Laboratories approval cited. Economists foresee ample feed, a near last year tonnage of grain feeds, a smaller corn supply but larger oats, and that feed per animal should stay similar despite fewer animals. It warns much of Iowa's 1930 corn may be high moisture and less storable, suggesting resealing old corn and feeding new crop.
Fragmentary text states bases at circled sites are leased by Great Britain to a country for years. Newfoundland and Bermuda are described as gifts while other bases are exchanged for destroyers. The article suggests these arrangements would bolster American defenses guarding approaches to the Panama Canal.
Expert guidance covers feeding silos with half sorgo and half soybeans, seeding grass in fall to reduce weed interference, and cautious outlooks for Western cattle liquidation this fall. Notes warn wood troughs for milk chickens are hard to keep clean and cite high consumer demand and prices for farm foods. Island Iowa State College researchers reveal a sorghum raking shortcut, Bard clay finishing, and silo wall maintenance advised every few years.
A Lithuanian bride, in preparing for marriage, makes up shirts socks and woolen vests for the groom. On the wedding day the groom passes his old clothes to his father and younger brothers as part of the family tradition.
Home economists note fall additions to summer menus with egg plant as a nutritious roughage. The easiest recipe is escalloped egg plant using diced vegetables, white sauce, cheese, and butter. Peel and cube the egg plant, boil briefly, layer with sauce and crumbs, then bake until golden.
In Campo Santa Genoa an overcrowded cemetery led to marble tombs stacked on the flat roof of its grand public mausoleum, reflecting space pressure in the city’s burial district.
A quirky note on pelicans near Miami Beach, Florida, that begin by loafing at a fishing pier while anglers feed them with small fish and bait, eventually tame but remain a growing nuisance to locals.
Homeowners seeking to modernize aging houses may choose youthful color schemes. Wood brick or stucco exteriors can be repainted with surface-specific paints, while roofs get factory colored shingles. Accents like blinds and doors complete the new look, with light salmon walls, emerald green roofs, and a bright front door as a popular combination.
A collage of jokes and ads appears, including a husband’s birthday check gag, a lumber quality claim, a bustle joke, a rooftop waterproofing pitch, and a tan contest remark. It blends light humor with product promotions for asphalt roofing Mule-Hide and Martin-Senour Paints, reflecting a mid-century newspaper style.
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