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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1923
Page
7
The text lists publication details for the Elgin paper, noting weekly Thursday publication by W. Hughes, post office entry as second class mail, local column rules per line, and advertising, with subscriptions priced at 82.60 per year and 100 for six months.
The article records visits from Jake Miller and crew, Warren Harrington, Harold Stoehr, and others across Cedar Rapids, Decorah, and Manchester areas. It notes university convocation at Upper Iowa, band activities, a chautauqua deficit, and regional travel to Rochester and Milwaukee, alongside remarks on rail and road improvements and local business updates.
Historical observations detail cruel methods used to train dancing camels and show animals. An Arab writer describes a camel forced for a year to endure hot floors and drum beats until performances become habitual. Leo notes an astonishingly humanlike performing ass observed in early 17th century texts.
A Portland Oregonian note argues proverbs are globally applied yet rarely tied to their first sources. It cites a Ptahhotep line from before Christ’s birth and suggests many sages such as Plutarch Solon and Thales may have borrowed sayings from everyday talk, making origins hard to trace.
The debate over the Swastika focuses on its link to the Hindu syllable Om. A Bengal Journal article argues the symbol arose from a modified Om sign, a cross-stroke motif called a pothook with square ends. The symbol appears in India since the seventh century as a cattle mark and in other ancient contexts.
The article traces the boll weevil to Mexico and Central America with early sightings in 1843 near Vera Cruz, its rapid spread causing cotton abandonment in parts of Mexico, the 1692 U.S. invasion via the Rio Grande near Brownsville, and a continental spread of 40 to 160 miles annually into Texas and beyond.
In dense pine forests trees die at high rates, with over 4000 per acre failing between ages ten and eighty and about 800 more dying to age one hundred. Species needing much light show faster natural die off, while shade-tolerant spruces beech fir endure less mortality.
A curious stranger questions a bookseller asking if a volume by Huclid exists. The man claims he seeks “Pi in the movie business” and suggests the book could become a five reel feature. An observer notes a literary man’s chatter about triangles.
Local items report a vacation return at Stoehr's drug store, paint projects on homes and a garage, a holdup altercation in Oelwein, a Fayette County Fair stand, and a chautauqua deficit resolved for 1924. Also noted are a Holland area row of storms with crop damage, a deer herd loss in DeWitt, and Jake Pfister winning a Northwood Heights lot in a lottery-like claim in St Paul.
Own a Farm in Canada with payments smaller than yearly rent. Rent money secures a productive Canadian farm comparable to $200 land in the Middle West. Inquiries to CHRIST HOLM, Local Agent Blegin, Town, CANADIAN COLONIZATION ASSN, Commerce Building, St Paul, Minn.
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