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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1924
Page
7
An old newspaper snippet appears as a Thursday publication note by RP Atxarch. It records an advertising column entry with scattered OCR remnants indicating display, specials, and listings.
Hutchinson dentist for sale red star oil stove built in oven at a bargain Lehman's Hardware. George Vaughn home from Fredericksburg visiting. Kohler family visit from West Bend. New school building near Mrs Johnny Wilson farm to be completed. Garden yields cucumbers corn cabbage strawberries. Decorah fair races postponed due to mud. Standard Middlings flour and feed arriving August 11 12. G F Moser praises Echo newspaper. Debates on old fashioned visits and motherhood. U S debt decline and tax data show surplus and revenue gains through 1924 to 1934.
Louis T. Lehmeyer left $150000 to Elisabeth Rosalie Warthmann in his New York will, a bequest tied to a romance from Matos Germany seventy-five years ago. The Kansan City Star recounts how Lehmeyer, once best man in the couple's wedding, watched the love unfold from afar while building wealth in Manhattan. Now the elderly man reflects on the woman he admired as noble as her grandmother.
A Buffalo News item recounts Margaret of Hamburg who faced a formal reception with sleeves. She changed her sleeved dress by removing sleeves upstairs and reemerging in sleeveless style, proving quick witted and bold under fashion pressure.
A hostess blushes as a napkin bears the initials of a guest. A servant, thinking the mistress’s linen too plain for such a distinguished visitor, had a servant add more regal napkin regalia from the guest’s butter supply, creating a comic if awkward scene.
United States experts prepare a domestic roquefort style cheese using cow milk and insulated curing rooms to imitate the 2000 year old French Roquefort caverns. The project aims to match look taste and aroma of the original made near Roquefort in southern France.
Gillis-Fine tells how an efficiency expert named Willie proved popular with the boss by improving time use and teaching colleagues tricks to beat the clock and hide late arrivals, including a clever cigarette maneuver.
Local residents return from trips and plan visits as families gather for picnics and fairs. Items note farm home improvements, a new truck for county road work, and church or youth stand at the county fair. Several anecdotes describe debtors’ notices and funeral attendance nearby. The archive records multiple Iowa addresses and regional movements.
The United States once took about half of South Africa's ostrich feather production but fashion changes reduced demand. The industry is now in a very low state. South Africa exported about $2,000,000 in ostrich feathers in 1922 versus $15,000,000 in 1918.
A playful spring quip has a father asking why the watch runs slow and a son claiming the watch was very clean after a bath. The exchange ends with a humorous note about the watch washing its own works in the bathroom.
Vignettes from local society note Max Thoma’s Hat at the fair, visits by Wm. R. Blake of Clermont and Walter F. Kohler, plans for a very cheap Puritan oil cooker, and assorted Sunday patrols with John Dennler, Cora Lantz, Maynard Lantz and Bertha Hofer at Decorah. The Baptist Sunday school will conduct a stand at the Fayette County Fair and asks for patronage. when hungry, come around.
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