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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1937
Page
8
Classified notice by chiropractor E R Withell of Elkader states there is a difference in chiropractors. Includes address at State Bank Building and mentions X Ray and neurocalometer services.
Oak Grove residents share gatherings and visits across numerous homes. guests include Trafalet Dennler Crider Muncie Denner and many families. The piece records social calls, dinners, trips, and hospital stays surrounding West Union area families.
Mrs McCann of Arlington visits with the Lulu Rothlisberger family along with Mr and Mrs Chan Doty and grandson Clarence Doty and Mr and Mrs.
Mr and Mrs Frank Christen visited Sunday in the Fred Nydeg ger sr home. C T Knudtson and sons Elmer and Orvin spent Sunday in the Fred Butikofer home. Amelia Muehlenthaler of Rock Valley visited with sisters Mrs Ernest Christen and Clara Muehlenthaler. Ben Schrack and son Delmar of near Sabetha stayed with Albert Schupbach. Margaret Haraugh of Guttenberg and Ted Bastrow of Watertown Wis visited Joe V Schneider. John Hofer spent days in John Dennler home. Richard Miller and children and John Pulfer family with Mary and Lena Pulfer were guests in L Christen home. Leo Rothlisbarger and Martin Hanson noted among Sunday supper guests.
Fred Biermann notes Prairie States Committee aims to back a cost of production bill this session, though fears no passage now. He cites Germany's grain harvests 10 percent below normal and government controls with penalties, contrasting with U S excess supplies and isolationist backlash to imports. He fears prices will fall with surplus and contemplates an extra session or January action.
A readable fragment notes that if surplus grain is sold to Germany, reciprocal purchases from Germany would be required. The line hints at exchange considerations and economic coupling without detailing specifics or dates. The item preserves a historic tone of debate on wartime or postwar trade policy.
The speaker supported a World War veterans pension bill aiming to raise pensions for widows and children of service connected deaths and for dependents of those who died. He criticizes the small current amounts, citing a widow under 50 at 30 dollars and a lifetime disabled veteran at 100 dollars, arguing funds favor healthy citizens. He notes total pension outlays of 1.152 billion for the year ending 1937 and claims only about 200 million reached the disabled and dependents of service connected cases. He sees the bill as a modest advance toward better care for the disabled and families of the fallen before funding other groups.
Christopher D. Sullivan, newly elected head of Tammany, has served in Congress since 1916. The narrator recalls recognizing him from House photos but had not known his name before.
A speaker recalls that few in the membership knew Congressman Sullivan. One supporter praises him as a fine man. Many large city members attend little and participate less in proceedings. Sullivan never spoke in Congress during the observer's presence. The speaker has not seen Congressman Gavagan since passage of the anti-lynching bill.
News notes the death of Congressman T. A. Peyser of New York City from heart trouble. The August 9th report mentions flags at half mast and recalls Peyser's 1932 victory over Ruth Pratt. Fraternally yours, Fred Biermann.
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