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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1939
Page
2
Neighbors and relatives gathered at Fred Domke’s home in Eldorado for a wedding anniversary surprise with a noon picnic, ice cream, cake, and music. Reports cover football practice, Wadena school enrollment, church services, and community visits with multiple named individuals and towns.
Fanny Ferguson argues with Joe as Joey’s pockets reveal items that seem junk to mothers but hold value for him. The collection includes a knife, marshmallows, marbles, tin soldiers, a paper with plane plans, rubber bands, nickels, and a mouth organ signaling thrift, sportsmanship, and curiosity. Joey rushes in to reclaim his treasures, proving the items represent more than clutter.
Fragmentary text notes Calais in 1597 remaining under English control with unclear surrounding details. The brief hints at a tense period in Franco English relations and colonial holdings, but the fragment offers minimal precise events or dates beyond the year.
Mexico features the cacomistle or cunning cat squirrel a small cat sized mammal with a fox like face and long tail. It hunts mice and rats and can be kept in captivity though it upset chickens and ducks. The creature treetop nests are hard to locate.
The Eiffel tower in Paris was once deemed ugly then admired for its slender outline. After World War I it was lit nightly as a giant billboard, dazzling visitors. In 1937 it joined a major exhibition and proved its decorative place in Paris.
The article urges planning a week's menu to avoid monotony and expense. It advises checking market offerings, buying staples weekly, shopping perishables more often, and using simple desserts while emphasizing vegetables for vitamins. It covers cooking methods to preserve color and nutrients and recommends appealing salads and fruit dishes. It mentions Russian geologists and expeditions in 1938.
Juices with eggs and seasonings on a hot day suggest lunch or supper salads that include meat or eggs with vegetables. Such salads provide color, variety, and important protective foods, helping safeguard health during warm weather.
Homer J. Chapman of Fayette was elected chairman of the Fayette county agricultural planning committee at its first meeting of the 1939 40 season held Thursday at the Farm Bureau office. Carl E. Miehe Maynard vice chairman Louis Barnes Fayette secretary and Louis Kiel the other member of the executive committee. The next meeting will be Oct 3 at Fayette at 10 o'clock.
Harry L. Olesen, director of the Union township farm bureau, was named by Fayette County Farm Bureau president W. S. Roth lisberger as chairman of the organization committee for 1940. The 1949 membership drive will be led by Mr. Olesen and a five member committee to be named later.
An educational meeting for all community committeemen alternates and corn sealers will be held at the Legion Hall in Fayette Friday Sept 15 starting at 9 am. Community elections will start the week of Oct 2 and the county election will be held before Oct 14. District Meeting at Oelwein Farm Bureau leaders of N E Town will meet at the I C O F Hall in Oelwein Tuesday Sept 19 starting at 10 am. Attention will be given to cooperative agreement serum service county meetings and 1940 organization plans.
Army Air Corps cadets must have two years of college training. Additionally, about 26 million golf balls are sold in the United States each year, indicating the scale of sporting goods consumption.
Pure Food and Drug agents report that mineral oil has been used to adulterate butter in some cases but the practice is not widespread. Officials caution against generalizing about the dairy industry while noting isolated incidents across markets.
Fayette county Farm Bureau women claim state championship with a 31 to 2 victory over Wapello county in the final round at Iowa State College. The two day festival drew over 40 participants from Fayette county, sponsored by the Town Farm Bureau Federation, with a gold trophy awarded to the champions.
Mary McClurg an Oelwein music teacher was chosen director of the Fayette County Rural Women's Chorus by a committee led by Mrs L D Hitch Mrs Ray Beil and Mrs F D Turner The chorus formed Jan 31 1939 under Mrs Hazel Waldron meets the first and third Tuesdays at U S A chapel and invites rural women with singing voices to join The next rehearsal is Sept 18 all interested urged to attend
Upper Iowa's Peacocks travel to Oskaloosa September 30 to begin the 1939 football season. The schedule includes road games at Penn and Buena Vista and homecoming clash with Columbia October 28 in Fayette, plus contests with Western Union and other peers. Weather impacts bee honey production and farm crops amid wet and dry spells.
Seventeen different oils, including rice oil, may be used in the manufacture of butter substitutes. The list shows broad oil options for flavor, texture, and production variety without naming specific brands or companies involved.
Public dancehall in Japan requires patrons to register their names addresses and occupations for entry. The rule applies to all attendees under the new safety and compliance regime.
An apple tree planted in spring 1847 at Willises Iowa produced a crop of 1088 bushels of eight and one alt bushels.
To keep peeled pears apples and bananas from darkening cover with grapefruit juice and chill.
The piece notes that ancient Romans called the little finger auriculasis to describe its use in removing ear wax or auricles. It presents a brief anecdote linking anatomy terms to utilitarian finger use in classical times.
A historical note explains how the Gibson Girl era achieved its voluminous pompadours using improvised rats made from cattle hair and tails and manes from wild horses, reflecting period beauty practices.
Farm radio ownership runs 18 percent below urban levels, yet farmers rely on their sets more heavily. The finding highlights higher per-household usage among farm households even as overall ownership trails city rates.
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