Elgin Local News Highlights From Your Neighbors
A busy notes column from Elgin summarizes visits and travel of locals including Mr. and Mrs. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Potter, the Yearous family, and Miss Alta Yearous. Local moves involve Mrs. Falb, Hazel, and several families relocating to Fort Dodge Waterloo and Des Moines. School work, hospital trips, and a weeklong trip to Chicago are also noted along with a big Fort Atkinson ball game attendance and a prize for F L Robbins in a national education contest.
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Elgin
Fort Atkinson
F. L. Robbins
Oelwein Business, College
Robison
Department of Education
Oelwein
Washington, D. C
Quip Vignettes From The Chicago Courier-Journal Snippet
A collage of witty exchanges from Louisville Courier-Journal style quips includes lines about embroidery poetry art and divorce with playful misreads and punchy one liners. The bit mirrors everyday banter and old newspaper filler as characters spar verbally over money love and luck.
Quotable quotes on life and human nature
A fragmented OCR passage presents a string of aphorisms and quotes on sunshine effort fame poverty and human behavior. It mixes references from Shakespeare Holmes and general observations on work age fashion and automobiles without a clear news event or narrative. The piece reads like a syndicated quip page rather than a cohesive article.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Baptist Church Notes Schedule of August Services
Baptist church announces Friday prayer meetings at 8 p m and choir rehearsal at 9 p m. Sunday August 26 English service 10 a m and Sunday school at 11 a m with English service 8 p m Rev 3 Batchelor of West Union to attend. Prayer meeting Friday August 30 choir rehearsal 9 p m. Conference at Burlington August 20 to 25. Pastor Ph Lauer extends welcome.
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Batchelor
West Union
Burlington
Ph. Lauer
M E Church Notes Service Inspires Larger Attendance
Rev E J Starr assisted with last Sunday's communion service which drew a large, impressive gathering. Regular services are set for next Sunday at 10 o'clock a m with Sunday school at 11 o'clock. J M Snyder is the pastor. Make your wants known through our want ad column and get quick results.
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E. J. Starr
J. 3. Snyder
Engineer creates electric barrier to guide salmon home
Keape Fish in Channel proposes an electrified water zone to stop young salmon from deviating into irrigation canals. The method acts as a stop sign, turning fish back toward the main route and aiding their return migration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keape
Mai
Sugar from Peanut Shells Aims at Commercial Sugar
Experiments explore producing a sugar from peanut shells and cottonseed bran with a target price around $100 per pound. The work, featured in Popular Mechanics, highlights the potential for a new, lab-developed product amidst other period material.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Discovery of a Sevillian barber in a witty exchange
A humorous dialogue features a customer noting the barber is Spanish and asking about a famed Sevillian barber of grand opera, to which the barber quips he trims civilians close, not performing grand opera.
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Barber
Grand Opera Fame
Tempting Price on Minara Magazine Ad
An advertisement praises a magazine offer claiming the chemical constituents of a product named Minara are valued at 98 cents. The piece targets women as savvy bargain hunters, highlighting affordability and consumer appeal.
Should a husband keep anything from his wife
A fragment from a Boston Transcript writer questions ethics and dignity in sharing money or resources in a marriage, noting how small sums like lunch and carfare influence perceptions of honesty and propriety. The brief reflects columnist voice and social norms of the era.
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Onke
Boston Transcript
It's All Greek to Me Teacher Question Quiz
A playful classroom exchange asking for the three important Greek orders. The pupil responds with a humorous garble about cups, tops and coconuts, reflecting a light moment in a lesson on Greek architecture.
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Cupa Skoffey
Rons
Local Social Notes and Civil War Veterans Listed
Supper guest reports from Buckingham and Snyder households. Belwein visitors share Elgin relatives. Hazel Davis returns to Elgin post office after illness. West Union notes five Civil War veterans D H Hall Harvey Smith Henry Richmond J E Fitch H E Foster with the third named as the youngest. Post office says A R Craft moved from Kelso to Burns Oregon. Hunsberger family visits KANAWHA relatives. Upper Iowa graduates include Anna M Rennison with two year diploma. Adolph Lauritzen Robert Starr and Hazel Van Horn earn BA degrees.
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West Union
D. H. Hall
Harvey Smith
Henry Richmond
J. E. Fitch
H. E. Foster
Towa
Upper Iowa
Anna M. Rennison
Adolph Lauritzen
Robert Starr
Hazel van Horn
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Hutchinson
T. L. Evans
Beaman
Iowa
W. Nichols
Denver, Colo
J. J. Snyder
Mrs. J. J. Potter
Grover
Texas
T. J. Capper
Mr. Potter
Mrs. Potter
Leslie Yearous
Betty
Wayne
Alta Yearous
Arlington
John Kohler
Harry Holsclaw
John Schrug
Della Falb
Hazel
Fort Dodge
Fred Hanson
Cedar Rapids
Los Angeles
California
Ed Hanson
Samuel Lehman
Samuel Mosby
Marie
Spokane
Wash
A. Dibble
Dan Sutter
John Butikofer
LaGrange
Roanoke
Til
Esther A.¢Blower
John Johnson
M. Yenney
Huron
Eldon Johnson
Johnson
R. P. Strauch
Fred Reichert
Chicago
Ritter
Ralph Reichert
Wendell, Minn
Hia‘farm
Mia
F. C. Maron
Son
Don
Wisconsin
Roy Schram
Emil Snyder
John Berndt
Fayette
Lucille
Berndt
R. A. Crider
Wieres
Weat Union
Sperry
Minnesota
J.D. Shaffer
Laura
Chicago News
Louisville Courier-Journal
Weatherbird Shoes
Oxfords
May McAvoy
Allen A
Foot Comfort Store
Elgin, Iowa
Baptist Church
M. E. Church Notes
Buckingham
Town
Will Wilson
Belwein
Hazel Davis
Post Office Department
The
Echo
A. R. Craft
Kelso, Wash
Burns
Oregon
Max Hunsberger
Kanawha
Hunsberger
George Stone
Fayette County
Kohler’s Store
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