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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1935
Page
1
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In a Times Hammond Indiana feature from April 4 1935 a columnist mocks the jay-walker who dodges streets and saves time by risky diagonal crossings. The piece contrasts him with the jay-buyer who peddles cheaper radiog and wholesale mail orders while denouncing gullible friends. It questions real savings versus income impact.
A Reader notes that most people prefer materials aligning with their views and resist opposite perspectives. The piece argues that Americans habitually seek confirmation, not new facts, citing partisan, denominational, and class divides as evidence of entrenched beliefs.
A Creston Advertiser quips on debt and lending with questions about handling a million dollars and the risk of ruined credit. A market remark adds skepticism: stable times may come, but the horse has already been stolen, illustrating doubt about economic recovery.
The Fayette County Bee Keepers association will hold a regular session at the court house in West Union at 10 o'clock a m on April 11. The note asks how many attendees are beekeepers and hints at local civic events and residents relocating for summer work or health matters.
Edmund Buesing proposes strict remedies to promote prosperity in the Sunday Register. He calls for deporting certain groups, capital punishment for statutory crimes and major offenses, legal reform toward the English system, universal school military training, currency devaluation to gold, soldier bonuses, unemployment and old age pensions, and hanging grafters. He asks readers for feedback.
The editor urges lawmakers to enact a highway patrol before adjournment and to settle control between the governor and secretary of state. The piece criticizes commissions and boards for draining taxpayer funds and mocks political squabbles over power. It argues officials should act for voters and reduce legislative sessions.
The Otter Creek scenic area dam shows seepage due to geological faults in the east hillside. After initial filling, leakage appeared. engineers will dig into the rock ledge to pass crevices and build a masonry wall to intercept the leakage.
In Des Moines Iowa Tuberculosis association meeting Fayette county won first place for its Christmas seal sales exhibit ranking twentieth in total raised and tied for thirty seventh in per capita amount. Attendees included Mrs R V Brandt of Clermont and Mrs C I Bills of West Union, county seal sale chairmen.
In Arlington on Tuesday, two Gypsy women allegedly distracted 85-year-old Robert Newton and caused him to lose $51 from his pocketbook. The report says he realized the loss after they departed, suggesting the theft was assisted by their distraction.
A volunteer deputy game-warden reports a hard winter for quail in the West Union region due to lack of shelter and icy ground that forced birds to travel far for feed. Pheasants fared better, gathering near farms and being fed or fed themselves from corn shocks left in fields, with an estimated 1,000 pheasants within a twelve mile radius.
A brief essay noting that Elizabethan life averaged twenty years, now about fifty eight for men and sixty one for women. Doctors Mayo describe medical progress as yielding hopeful gains toward a biblical life expectancy of seventy.
The Elgin Library Association presents its year from April 1, 1934 to April 1, 1935. It lists initial holdings 994 volumes, total annual circulation, balances, receipts of 43.31, expenditures 26.37, and year end balance 16.04. New adult and juvenile titles include American Family Baldwin and The Room on the Roof. The Elgin Study Club supports operations and fundraising. the library is community owned with no membership fees and open to all for use and care.
Mrs G E Sauerbry of Oelwein, district committeewoman for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, met Fayette county project officers in Fayette on Saturday March 30 for the annual contact meeting. Plans were made for the annual women's achievement day set for May 28 in Fayette. Mrs Gus Belschner of Hawkeye was elected county chairman and Mrs W H Turner of Fayette was named vice-chairman to fill the vacancy from Mrs Arthur Putnam who moved from the county March 1.
The pontoon bridge opened on Saturday March 23 for the first time this season to permit a barge carrying material for the Guttenberg dam to pass. The first boat last year cleared the bridge on March 26 and the final boat on November 15. Between those dates the two draws opened 914 times.
The Sioux City Journal argues that failure to liberalize the GOP would waste a prime chance to regain power and urges unity for next year. It notes state health board boosters push doctor and dentist ads and calls for an ethics code for newspaper publishers on free advertising while seeking legislative aid.
A brief moral remark urging personal charity, asserting that compassion compels those who sympathize with the needy to provide tangible support or funds. The line frames generosity as a duty tied to empathetic sentiment.
Special music readings games and a short talk by George Strayer former extension assistant in older boys and girls work will be featured at the organization meeting in Fayette Legion hall on Wednesday April 10 at 8 o clock Rural young men and women aged 18 to 30 are invited to attend.
A quoted remark from Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, on American education and funding. The line asserts education can absorb and sanitize tainted money, reflecting concerns about funding integrity.
Fred Lauer will board and room in Fayette starting Monday until the term ends, then join his parents in Burlington.
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