Want Ads Rates and Local Listings in Elgin
The Elgin Echo lists want ad rates with 25 word limit at 25 cents per insertion and 1 cent per word thereafter. It notes handling charges for office replies and monthly billing terms. Multiple sale items include good seed potatoes, a South Bend range, a horse for sale or trade, and a range of used sale books. Also references radio program announcements and a Mary Benson residence rental.
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Afl
Ada
South Bend
Feller's Hardware
Elgin
The Deadly Motor Car
A column argues for traffic safety citing Travelera Insurance figures showing 326000 highway deaths in fifteen years, more than six major wars combined, urging readers to act with consideration since others may observe and imitate behavior. Advertising is blamed for coaxing the timid to reveal themselves.
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Travelera Insurance Company
Big Berthas
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Audh
Gathered Jokes Mollified by Newspapers Share Laughs
A collection of humorous quips from various sources including the Louisville Courier Journal. Jokes touch on misread words and everyday misunderstandings. Examples include a baby fed on mollified milk and a dog joke about curtail. The snippets reflect light social banter and wordplay.
Quotations and aphorisms in Bubbles column
A collage of maxims and witticisms on topics from memory and happiness to tact and money. It surveys manners, flirting, gossip, intellect, and social norms with pithy observations and paradoxes. Included is a nod to Dantel Webster as an exemplar of persuasive rhetoric.
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Voltaire
Dantel Webster
In Confidence Billy Diary Tease Birthday Gift
Billy and Uncle Frank playfully discuss a upcoming birthday as they turn the calendar page. Billy insists he will reveal his gift only if the uncle promises to forget it by the right time, a lighthearted domestic moment from Brightwood.
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Billy
Brightwood
Frank
Indianapolla News
Only Temporary Darkness in Denver Suicide Note and Failed Shot
A 23 year old Denver man, exhausted by life, wrote a 20 page death note and tried to shoot himself in a vacant lot. Passersby found him. the pistol misfired and he fainted at the click. Police noted the man was rising when they arrived.
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Denver
Missing doors and windows in Juarez home
Patrocinio Ruis slept through a burglary in Juarez Mexico. He forgot to lock two windows and a door one night. Morning revealed the missing articles. He asked Juarez police to help locate the thief and retrieve the items.
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Juarez
Mexico
Patrocinio Ruis
Ruiz
Juares
Waterfall dispute over ownership of waterway
In a Waterfall scene Btockholm Vart Hem depicts a quarrel over fishing rights with a man declaring ownership of the water and another challenging the claim. The dialogue reveals jurisdictional tension as the water from above becomes a point of contention.
Dear Jean Newton Brainy Women Mystery In Dating
A 1983 column responds to a reader question about why men favor brainy women only at a distance. The writer argues men prefer brainy women who listen rather than marry, noting historical matriarchal hints but concluding brains rarely win in partnership. It urges readers to be brainy if desired.
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Jean Newton
Diogenes
Stuart
Ball Syndicate
WNU Bervios
Novel Coop Cookbook Ideas for Bran Rich Foods
A vintage guide outlines year round bran use and roughage for all ages, with recipes for bran date muffins and liver based sandwiches. It details Liver Sandwich Spread with cooked liver and hard boiled eggs, a Calf Liver Sandwich with olives, and Chicken Liver and Jelly Sandwich with Worcestershire and currant jelly. Also describes Shrimp and Liver Sandwich filling with onions peppers and light mayo or chili sauce.
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Bermuda
Working for Good Short history of man
The piece notes a man named Haten who aims to inspire goodness in others, content with his own virtue and wishing he had been better. A reflective meditation on moral influence and personal integrity appearing in the Los Angeles Times.
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Los Angeles
Times
Scot Free Deed Playfully Clarified
A brief note explains that Scot free combines Scot meaning tax and free implies no payment. The explanation clarifies the punning phrase used in dialogue or commentary.
Baffled by the Lowest by Locke insight
A compact reflection on how even humble plants or animals challenge the sharpest minds, illustrating the limits of human understanding and the surprising complexity hidden in simple life forms.
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Locke
Summing It Up A Chip On The Shoulder Spot
A brief note highlights a chip on the shoulder attitude affecting promising Waren. The column sketches the mood shift, with local sports and business figures cited as reacting to the newfound resolve and friction. Conflicting expectations shape ongoing plans.
Death of Chas W Forbes Recalls Long Life Journey
Notice records the death of Chas W Forbes at age about 85 in Los Angeles after a life spanning Iowa Louisiana Tennessee Oklahoma New Mexico and California. It lists moves from Iowa to Booth County then to Texas and other states, noting the deaths of wife and two daughters and several sons, with survivors and a neutral obituary tone.
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Los Agelés
Calif
Chas
W. Forbes
Iowa
Booth Datt
Forbes
Ethel
Los
Angeles
Earle B. Forbes
Otto R
la Crescenta
Tax advocates tout sales levy while critics warn of hidden costs
A Mount Morris Index excerpt questions the real impact of a new sales tax. Sponsors say it will ease real estate taxes, but skeptics fear job effects and rising overall burdens. The piece ridicules politicians who pass new taxes before canceling old ones.
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Mount Morris Index
Unclear OCR Chronicle of Local Incident
Fragmentary report notes a school board discussion and a station manager at a marine station near a highway crash. An overturned coupe in water is described, with references to Friday, Echo newspaper, and names likely garbled. No clear date or location could be confirmed.
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Waa
Coupe
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Ole J. Okon
A. G. Bauder
Echo and Enterprise
Dubuque
Atlantic Monthly
the Atlantic
Amercia
the Atlantic Monthly
Artington St
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Sparkes
Louisville Courier-Journal
Louisville Courier
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Joe
Walter
By Jean Newton
Mothegs Coop Book
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Earle E. Forbes
Echo
Saya Lovoelek
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Bellayagtoate
WNO Marines
L. C. Smiths
Underwoods
Remingtons
Towa
A. L. Riley Company
New Hampton, Towa
Serauch
Ya Elgin
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