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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1922
Page
8
An American Legion Weekly joke mocks the cherry tree legend as a mother tries to inspire truthfulness in young George Washington. Billy counters with a harsher retort about the hatchet, underscoring skepticism toward perpetual honesty preaching.
A vintage advertisement urges buyers to seek genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer Cross on each package and tablet. It claims the product is world famous and prescribed by physicians for over twenty-one years and proven safe for colds headaches earaches toothaches neuralgia and general pain.
Lillian Jackson found guilty of murder in Mason City. Davenport fire destroys four story brick building with $200,000 loss. origin unknown. Poison whisky caused death in Des Moines. coroner cites hanging of William Pollock. Prohibition raid on Harry Foreman farm yields several gallons of aged whisky hidden in corn cribs. A young man named Lowell Warner dies after being struck by a freight at North Bellevue. Drowned Burlington flood victim identified as Mrs. Remedell, council Bluffs native. Nehame votes to fund a $75,000 consolidated schoolhouse, bond pass 144 to 80. Ben Ruhland, Civil War veteran, dies near LeMars. Towns Digeost bank robbery costs Iowa state about $125,000. 1920 state mortgage data: $594,421,768 mortgage debt on owned homes and farms. average mortgage debt $1,693. debt-to-value 38.8 percent for homes. 27.0 percent for farms. Albert Richardson roams with a den of ten young wolves found on Orient area farm. Clarion fair grounds sold to Dr. J H Same for stock farm use. price 31,000.
Advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as foolproof for wool silk linen cotton and mixed fabrics claiming no spotting fading streaking or running. It guides readers to specify material and fabric type and asserts guaranteed results for at home dyeing by any woman. Also notes a Mortimer Menpes anecdote about Whistler and a retriever misplacing itself in a landscape.
A shrimp recounts telling a man on a street corner that he would bust his face if provoked. The same man overhears the tale and accuses the shrimp of speaking to him as they passed in a car at about 50 miles per hour.
A distracted woman in town last week caused a minor traffic incident by following a line of cars to a standstill behind a taxicab stand. After exhausting her patience she honked loudly, prompting a state officer to instruct her to move. The piece muses on hastiness in marriage and the chase of ideals versus reality.
In Lafayette Indiana the Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and Paper Hangers published a brochure describing their four story office building. The Italianate design suits a decorative arts group. The brochure claims color effects show this era’s material and artistic ingenuity.
A speaker mistook a sitio for a thrashing machine and joked about borrowing one. The group of young married farmers clarifies that he meant a silo, reflecting lighthearted farm jargon and practical farm improvement talk.
A father explains standard time to his son Harry who is in the fourth grade. He notes that many even eighth graders struggle with longitude and gratitude. The exchange ends with Harry reassured about learning more as he continues schooling.
The W. W. ch lodge house on Treasure Island, built entirely by Boy Scouts, claims to be the finest ever constructed by scouts. Measuring about 80 by 45 feet and two stories tall with two large porches, the building will house numerous mementoes.
Fragmentary dialogue from a column cites Betty Sult Her chatting with grandma and a moment of uncertainty about affection. It includes phrases like I don’t know and I’m going away. The text references Barcelona and L Esquella de la Torrazza as source fragments.
A wry exchange plays on the old adage about money and folly. Money Lasta remarks that a fool parts with money. West counters that until that happens, the person isn’t a fool. The line showcases humorous wit in a bygone quarrel of sayings.
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