Feller's Hardware and Elgin Echo Classifieds Teem With Listings
Various classified notices and ads from Elgin Echo and local sources, including fencing materials at Feller's Hardware in West Elgin, help wanted for housework, lost dog in Iowa, sale of animals and eggs, sales books, pasture rental, hatching eggs, fox pups, large corn and oats for sale, stamps, cash register, dictionaries, and office supplies. The Elgin Echo notes a quiet spring political season with no immediate town elections and mentions a June 14 road bond vote.
Elgin High School Football Schedule Next Fall
Elgin high school lists the fall football slate with games at Postville West Union Arlington Fayette Hawkeye Maynard Wadens and other local venues. The town also notes advances in paving, mill operations, and regional production figures for Iowa.
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Elgin High School
Postville
West Union
Elgin
Arlington
Fayette
Hawkeye
Oect
Maynard
Wadena
Wadens
Humorous Fragments From A Quirky School Page
A jumble of light sketches and classroom vignettes frames humorous exchanges among students and staff. Tales range from old fashioned flirtations to modern quirks about cigarettes and *cold feet* Auntie remarks contrast with past norms. Names appear in learning notes and grade remarks while absence reports color the week.
Oldest Canadian College Founded in 1188 at Halifax
The institution known as Canada’s oldest college traces its roots to 1188 and is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Historic foundation dates and location anchor its longstanding academic legacy in the region.
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Canada
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Fragmented Prose Maxims and Quotes in a Magazine Compile
A jumble of quotations and aphorisms appears in a magazine-like excerpt. Notable voices include Herbert, Holmes, Hobbes, Locke, Michelet, Sonnenberg, and others, touching on sin, humility, experience, knowledge, labor, happiness, love, conscience, and action. The text reads as a miscellany rather than a cohesive feature.
Historians Overlooked Fact About Camembert Statue In France
A collection of humorous quotes notes a New York judge criticizing French claims to inventions, references a Peebles anecdote about a statue of William the Conqueror, and quips about rural virtue versus city life. It includes banter on manners of the country and a farmer's boast about dairy work.
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France
Otto Rosalsky
New York
Peebles
Thomas
Oklahoma
Golemoly
Ceck
Samantha
Mail Romance Leads to Crossed Paths Across States
A Brunswick Georgia clerk Misa Taylor placed her name on a mail slip. The Cedar Rapids Iowa bag brought it to Charles Ingram who exchanged photographs with her. He later went south and now Mr and Mrs Ingram are back in Cedar Rapids per the Indianapolis News.
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Misa Helen Taylor
Brunswick
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Charles Ingram
High- Register
Mies Taylor
Indianapolis News
Valuable Orchid Pod Displayed At Chelsea Show 1929
The Rocky Mountain News notes a rare Miltonia armatrongi orchid pod on display at London's 1929 Chelsea Flower Show. A single flower sold for over 1500 dollars, other flowers for around 1000 dollars, and the whole pod with head is estimated at 150000 dollars.
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Chelsea
London
Rocky Mountain News
Studying an Audience Speech Sparks Grammar Debate
Senator Sorghum argues that strict grammar is not carelessness but prudence, while commenters claim attentiveness to language creates airs and pretension. The exchange highlights tensions between clarity and perceived elitism in public discourse.
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Senator Sorghum
One Consolation on High Cost of Living
A brief quip notes one consolation amid rising prices: keeping and secreting costs remain the same, as it used to. The humor hinges on frugality and private restraint, reflecting a domestic-sense observation. The line echoes a social voice about everyday economic pressures and personal budgeting.
Crust of Her Jack Find Turned Out House Quiet
A landlady confronted by two tenants who deserted for three days. She reportedly refused to let them stay, turning them out after discovering their absence, ending their lodging abruptly. The fragment notes a terse eviction action and tense exchange.
Agricultural insights and old farming notes reprinted here
Government guidance covers chick rearing starting at one or two days, bean seed for anthracnose control, and dairy cow protein needs. Lime requirements for alfalfa vary by soil type. Alaska forests span large acreage. Also notes a Passion Play in Bloomington and port of call definitions.
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Ttwaa
U. 8
Department of Agriculture
Strangers in Store Seek Help as They Travel West
A couple, described as strong and healthy and well to do, attracted little attention in a store. When asked about their origin and destination, a store clerk claimed he did not know who they were or where they were headed. Earlier, the pair had begged for money or merchandise to continue to Detroit, Michigan, and possibly California. A small boy picked up a banana while the scene unfolded, and the visitors later visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo Nydegwer and EB A. Wathanithie, family relations noted in the Fairbank Advocate.
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Dast
Saly
Mt Our
Detroit
Mich
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Feller’s Hardware
West Elgin
Florence Grimm
Mervin Anderson
Elbader
Poland
L. Hunsberger & Son
McGenky
Crosby-Wirth
U. S
Clifford J. Larson
Clermont
Inwa
Rhode Island
Anna Schupbach
Fox Tertior
Delbert Lyon
Thos
Howard, Sr
Towa
Cornelius Reierson
Echo Office
National Cash Register
R. P. Strauth
Elgin Echo
Hecho
Echo
The
Diogenea
Optometrist
C. W. Heiserman
Elgin School News
Mississippi
Davenport
Oskdale
Jane
Nora
Theresa
Glen
Bobby
Jimmie
Christ
Gene
Verna
Ralph
Roy
Leon
Jeck
Mabel
Clarence
Falk
Junior
Anna Mae Schupbach
Harold
Lyman
Zella
Tillian Schneider
Wall
Holmes
Hobbes
Locke
Atill
George Herbert
Michelet
God
Sonnenberg
Kissa
U. 8. Dept. of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Black Belt
Algharda
Missionippi
Syracuse
N.Y
Shenandosh Valley
Pacific Slope
Northwest
Sam Saye
Alaska
Missouri
Maine
New Jersey
Bloomington
San “Antinto
Geo. Nydegwer
Wathanithie
Atel
UUM Sumab
Ietsaraneers
Munyan
Munyon
Emia, Co
Ek Ware Abuse
An Sa
McCormick-Deering
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