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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1932
Page
4
The page lists assorted items for rent and sale including a Royal standard typewriter, a Chevrolet truck, and a delivery chassis. It notes prices, contact inquiries, and several small ads for services, with community notices about threshing and local labor issues.
The article outlines two crappie species in Iowa, the common and black crappie, detailing dorsal fin spines, distribution, and identifying marks. It notes spawning in late spring, nest sites in shallow gravel, and similar diets of small fish and invertebrates. Additionally, it recounts a wild white rock hen incident on the Tobin farm with pheasants roaming in a wheat field.
Sidney Weaver of Spirit Lake caught a 20 pound sheepshead from the north end of West Okoboji using a cane pole, line, and 20 hook with crawfish bait. The report also notes a new banded top minnow discovered in West Okoboji and guidance on stocking public waters priority by the state fish and game department.
Outdoor Town publishes free pamphlets on game birds including Pheasant Breeding Manual Quail Breeding Manual Game Birds How to Make Them Pay on Your Farm and More Waterfowl by Assisting Nature a 160 page guide with a complete waterfowl restoration program available by writing to More Game Birds in America Inc 500 Fifth Ave New York City
The Fort Dodge Messenger Chronisle notes proper approach to bass fishing predicts luck. G. K. Jr. warns eagerness to push into a hole spooks bass and poor casts follow. He advises casting smoothly, staying patient, keeping shadow behind, and fishing continuously to increase your catch rate.
The Bureau of Fisheries notes fish cannot close eyes or sleep as mammals. Experiments with special apparatus show fish are more active at times and then enter periods of rest. Inactivity varies in degree and may be comparable to sleep in a physiological sense.
A farmer near the deer range in Washington county found a six week old fawn while cutting wheat on his farm. The fawn appeared left by its mother, E. L. Breitenbach a deputy game warden in the area, who took care of the fawn until wheat cutting finished. The mother would return to the field to find it. Sheep and claimed the lost child.
W Rubyer of Rundalia, a war 2 visitor in Elgin Tuesday, visits Bob-In Beauty Shop run by Ethel Feller. Gertrude Grother spends week in Iowa City with Lloyd Swartley. Attorney Leon R. Layton of West Union was in Elgin yesterday. Mr and Mrs Ernest Arbuckle and fiancée from Fairland Ind arrived to visit Walter German’s home and may relocate. Arbuckle seeks work.
Dr. and Mrs. C L Crider of Elkader welcomed Dr. and Mrs. R A Crider for a Sunday evening visit. Lois Lucas of Charles City came to visit her uncle George Vaughn. Mrs. Emma Reutser and son Eliner stay several weeks with W D Seims at Middleton. O P Broghr, Libble Bucher and Mrs Hulda Toes were sightseeing at McGregor on Sunday.
A long read of names and appearances outlines social visits births and travels across Oak Grove West Union Elkader Volga City and nearby areas. Numerous families such as Denaler Christen Friederich Yearous and Dennler are mentioned with gatherings at homes and picnics at the fairgrounds.
A fragment suggests promoting coal payments in installments with two or three dollars per week, likely urging buyers to spread costs. The readable text hints at a sales pitch encouraging deferred payment options.
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