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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
2
The Elgin Echo outlines weekly publication by Fr W Hughes with postal matter designation. Ads in local columns cost six cents per line per insertion and display ads run until discontinued. Subscriptions are $1.50 per year or one-half year rates.
A mosaic of small notices and reports from Postville area in early April 1919. items include a Postville eye clinic notice, flour market hints, social rounds with Miss Frances Skarshoug, and travels of locals to Mt. Vernon and Decorah. oil strike news in Derbyshire, a Mann act case closure in Des Moines, Wisconsin auto tax talk, and local weather with calendar notes.
A reflection on quotations and folk sayings that endure beyond fashion across centuries. Henry Cabot Lodge is cited in Scribner's as discussing how familiar lines, ballads, and songs persist through memory and print, carried by mothers and children across generations.
Irving Cobb argues that beauty harms men from birth. A handsome child is pampered and teased, wearing lace collars and velvet outfits, inviting nicknames and social pressure. If beauty persists into adulthood, a man's chance of normal life fades into matinee idol or film star status, unless he resists destiny.
An English inventor created a concrete oil tank of about ten gallons using chemically treated aggregate. After seven days of weathering, the tank was filled with paraffin oil and stored in a shed for 15 weeks. Upon testing, only evaporation caused any loss, no leaks were found, walls remained odor free, and no paraffin or odors were detected afterward, marking a severe test of container integrity.
A surprising account describes Wonderful Island White Island located 30 miles from New Zealand as a vast rock mass nearly three miles in circumference rising 900 feet above the sea. It is perpetually shrouded in clouds, rich in sulphur, and hosts a fifty acre interior lake with acidic water and high temperatures. Steam eruptions from nearby craters feed the constant cloud cover.
The text reflects on how children perceive reality as real based on imagination. It notes adults also misjudge events and relationships, but a child lacks experience to judge practical relations, making their visions untested until they gain observation and experience. Exchange.
Dr Canhom attends patients as Cedar Rapids visitors arrive. Miss Grace Bowen visits family from Cedar Rapids. Hatching eggs offered for sale at 5 cents per setting, $4 per 100. J J Phillips invites inquiries. Wheat sowing increases as spring work proceeds. Shoe prices expected to rise due to material shortages and foreign demand. John Falb takes over the Elgin Hotel and promises strong local service as Mrs Fosha departs. George Baldwin reports his sister Nancy and he may stay in Iowa City for medical reasons after a severe eye operation with ongoing recovery and planned future surgery.
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