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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1942
Page
4
Footlight Serenade is booked at the Avalon Sunday Monday and Tuesday with Ger hard Halverson of Postville RI invited as guest. Courtesy tickets are available by calling the office.
The article urges timely hoe use in late summer to prevent seed-setting weeds and reduce next year’s work. It covers optimal harvest sizes for squash and eggplant, cautions on root crop handling, and storage cave construction guidance. Also advises about crop disease prevention, proper storage temperatures, and farmer orders under defense transportation rules. It ends with a note about Defense Bonds.
Louis Eckerman of Harlan has kept a clock purchased by his father in 1876 running for 65 years without repairs. He notes the timepiece remains as reliable as ever and has been in his possession for 30 years.
The Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Hauptmann trial consumed the most time and cost in newsreel history, eclipsing all other subjects in coverage.
Ed Johnson of Pratt Kansas began collecting pencils as a boy and now owns about 42 000. He calls his collection the largest pencil collection in the world outside of a newspaper man's pocket.
The article notes U.S. cheese production reaching a record high and urges homemakers to include ample cheese in weekly menus. It highlights dairy herd testing in Iowa, with test herds averaging 356 pounds of butterfat per cow after ten years versus 301 pounds for newer herds. It also discusses a projected 39 million bushels soybean crop and storage challenges, stressing moisture control and ventilated storage with air movement.
The notice promotes Quaker feeds including Lay ing Mash and 32 percent concentrate priced from $2.75 per 100 pounds, with Quaker Pig-N-Low and Pig-N-Hog feeds from $2.60. It invites readers to compare prices and mentions Good Heavy Oats as a money saver.
A church building has been torn down and incorporated into a six room house built largely by Lamar Barnett of Indianola. The project required little additional lumber and Barnett did most of the work himself. The old church bell was sent to Delhi, India.
D. D. Rasdal of Waverly, a salesman for a wholesale fruit house, spent a day picking fruit. While climbing a tree a branch broke or his foot slipped, leaving him with two broken ribs and severe bruising. He concludes it is safer to sell fruit than to pick it.
A jumbled page of ad lines and quips touting paints Dutth Boy White Lead Martin Senour and Fidelity Insurance with jokey exchanges about marriage secrecy and aging appearances. The fragment hints at consumer offers and streetwise humor from a bygone era.
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