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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
4
Teens read a notice detailing want ad rates from TS TEENS: 25 cents per insertion for up to 23 words, 1 cent per word beyond that. Additional handling 10 cents per week if replies come to the office. Terms cash with order. Billing adds 10 cents per line.
Fragments describe a mishmash of names and places with unclear actions. Readable items mention a person and a location several miles south of a town, plus scattered words like jersey and rev. The text lacks a coherent event or confirmation of entities.
Louise, a school cooking student, wants to cook her own way while her mother offers help that confuses her. A trial with a cake ends with an edible result and a tidy kitchen. With guidance on recipe selection and oven use, Louise learns to manage cooking more independently.
Nearly every national park saw more hikers on forest trails last year with the overnight pack horse type of hiking gaining adherents.
A special CFI photo from Dwight Nichols shows a wild variety sweet potato weighing 33 1 2 pounds. A. F. Chambers found the tuber and displayed his potato weighed the same. he has buried it hoping to keep it alive and growing.
Fragmented text references a royal setting with Pinady Wis Wandser and Princesses Bligeheads and Margaret Rase. Mentions rogins, Kornige, and a perplexing scene where a parade or event appears to be disrupted. Overall, unclear, but suggests a historical royal affair with dubious names and outcomes.
Fresh paint advice urges using spar varnish and linseed oil for porch floors with thin coats and proper ventilation. The steps cover cleaning, sanding, priming, and multiple coats, plus drying times. A baking dish chicken and rice recipe follows, arranging layers with stock and parsley garnish, baked at 375 degrees for 25 minutes, serving eight.
A readable fragment describes a one dish luncheon using chicken and rice. It lists ingredients such as stewed fowl, rice, stock, parsley, mushrooms or celery, almonds or peanuts, and optional haddings. Directions include cooking rice in stock, shredding meat, and layering on a pan. The text is partial and garbled but presents a classic home style recipe outline.
Agricultural advice covers wheat smut in Iowa, irregular red clover life cycles, sorghum poisoning risks after frosts, differences between lime sulfur and wettable sulfur, alfalfa in orchards, iris seed planting, pruning tips, and lamb feed timing. It also notes savings from tusslehopper bait in Lyon, Sioux, and Plymouth counties and suggests iodized limestone recipe with potassium iodide content.
Government defines any fat not up to standard as rendered pork fat effective Nov. 1 with only high quality cooking fat remaining as Jard. Iowa State College discusses grass as a stabilizing crop for midwestern farms while farmers adapt flax feeding to cut prussic acid risk. Breeding for high quality lambs begins now through ewe flushing to ensure uniform lambs.
Quick substitute tips for sour cream. Mix ordinary cream with two teaspoons lemon juice or use evaporated milk with one teaspoon vinegar per cup. Clear, practical hints for fast kitchen need.
Clipper transatlantic mail service, designed for 3000 pounds, has transported 4300 pounds about 140000 letters and packages valued at around 41000 dollars per Collier's. Clerical note indicates clipper must accept all mail assigned by the post office department, even if it forces cancellation of passenger bookings.
The Tennessee Valley Authority found insulated houses heat up two to three times faster than uninsulated ones. A pair of identical homes, one insulated and one not, were compared to measure heating results.
More than 300 University of Toronto students finance their education by taking part time jobs either within the university or at downtown firms.
Moving shutters on heating stoves allow directing heat outward or downward toward the floor. This helps prevent cold drafty floors by improving heat distribution and comfort in living spaces.
Glass ventilators play an important role in every room by providing controlled air flow without drafts. They are easy to attach and affordable, protecting curtains and reducing laundry costs while preserving occupant health.
A humorous collection of quips on debt repairs and domestic life. Jokes touch on paying for household goods and weather preparations as the audience hears lines about a mother, a dad, a salesman, a traffic cop and a painter. The piece ends with a sales pitch for Martin-Senour Paints.
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