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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1923
Page
6
Beiott residents report clearer health after overwork strain. A female patient recovers as Thad balances work and family duties, easing burdens from exhausting store duties and maintaining household roles. Public health rumor notes stabilization and shared support within the community.
The arm is arranged to lock across three spring contacts on the face of the device. Each contact completes a different length of radio wave. Locking the arm in position prevents jarring or vibration out of place.
In Philadelphia, baseball fans were fined for attacking an umpire, a notable incident cited by James J. Montague. The piece muses on liberty’s cradle and mentions a child-friendly novelty noise-maker as part of the scene.
A miscellaneous Iowa roundup notes diverse items from Shenandoah and Ossceola to Ames and Des Moines. Topics include crop yields and horse sales, a memorial project, a large lake plantings near Dows, a Des Moines pioneer’s death, a Kellogg school building underway, a Bella Plain freight engine explosion, and May death causes. Other items cover new plane factory near Ottumwa, road costs, a Drake University arts figure resigning, Shenandoah armory wrecking, and the state conservation board’s first meeting. Additional notes mention oil lease interest near Shenandoah, a government strength on liquor prohibition exhibits at the state fair, and oil lease talks by A D Cook of Chanute.
Across Washington resignations of top Treasury and state undersecretaries reveal a pattern as officials with rare training quit for better pay outside. Edward Clifford and Parker Gilbert depart from $5,000 to $10,000 roles, while others in similar posts face low salaries, housing costs, and constant political risk under Harding.
The treasury shows a surplus of about 810 million dollars for the past fiscal year, surprising as President Harding had forecast around 200 million. General Lord notes reductions in total expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1923, with operating costs about 207 million less than 1922, and cites higher receipts from customs internal revenue and miscellaneous sources.
Two thousand reserve officers training corps members at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Meade underwent a rigorous health screening. Only 25 were rejected for defects as authorities conducted comprehensive checks including smallpox vaccination, typhoid inoculation, and diphtheria testing. Dr. T. M. Coffin led the medical team with Maj. P. F. McGuire and Maj. A. P. Hutchins supervising, while parents received health reports and guidance. Daily drills run from 7:30 to 11:30 in the morning and 1 to 8 in the afternoon, with afternoons reserved for athletics and hygiene instruction.
The Federal Reserve Board notes heavy production and rising employment in May and early June, with wage gains and declines in wholesale prices. Iron and steel, cement, and petroleum output hit records, building permits fall, but country business remains excellent as contracts rise and transportation and retail trade expand.
Royal A. Stone, active American Legion member, is named associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. His life shows a long struggle from early financial hardship and service in World War I to a legal career marked by perseverance and public service. He rose from a small-town practice to assistant attorney general, then captain and major in the U.S. Army, and finally to the high court, praised by Legion comrades for his ability and dedication. He belongs to St Paul Post No. 8 of the American Legion, a group with many prominent Minnesota members.
Alvin Owsley national commander of the American Legion is awarded the Order of Merit by Charles Bertrand secretary of the Union Nationale des Combattants. Fifty others share the decoration among 1.5 million veterans of allied forces. The medal comes with a bronze plaque as a personal memento of Bertrand showing affection for Owsley and the Legion.
Regular weekly concerts by members of the American Legion have been given by the Paris post of the organization for nearly nine months. Legion artists have visited nearby communities and in Paris have presented weekly programs. Recently a complete program was broadcast from a famous radio station. The post maintains a band orchestra drum corps and a quartet. They also run a free medical clinic for the poor.
Here man Siebert of 125 Hennepin St LaSalle says Tanlac fixed him after a year of stomach pain weight loss and fatigue. He gained eight pounds regained appetite and sleep and now endorses Tanin as life changing. Tanine Vegetable Pills sold by druggists with over 87 million bottles sold.
Gutenach questions a trip to Vienna as expensive, while the other claims youth restoration by Dr Steinach will make the journey affordable, promising a return by Gebild's dekat. The dialogue hints at a humorous or satirical view of rejuvenation and travel costs.
Druggists report many people suffer kidney trouble without knowing it. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is promoted as a cure with claims of high success and insurance survey support. Sample bottles offered by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. at Binghamton New York with paper mention.
This machine built by William S. Jevons and described in Principles of Science used symbolic terma to perform analytic reasoning with reduced errors, aiming to minimize mistakes through mechanical reasoning.
Mother! Fletcher's Castorian has been in use for over 30 years to relieve infants and children of constipation, muscular colic, wind colic and diarrhea, allaying feverishness arising therefrom and aiding digestion and natural sleep. The genuine bears signature.
The Boston Evening Transcript cites a lively exchange about wealth and heirs, noting that a new lipir grows almost weekly as a witty jab at social climbing and family names in a bustling city milieu.
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