Elgin Echo Classifieds and Local Notices
Want Ads the Elgin Echo lists ten cent rates with a 39 cent weekly minimum if paid in cash. blind ads and inquiries carry a per week minimum. Also notes on handwriting help and a notice offering two free theater tickets to Martin Minihan at the Echo office. Rev Lloyd Glass returns home to Cresco after five months detained by Chinese Communists in Chuanhsien. he has served 15 years in the Chinese mission field.
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Martin Minihan
Echo
Avalon Theater
Echo Office
Elgin
Lloyd Glass
Cresco
Tragedy as Jefferson Miner Dies in Cave-In Near Glidden
Dick Mount of Jefferson was killed when walls in a drainage ditch collapsed during work near Glidden. Fellow laborers cleared the dirt and found him unresponsive within seconds. The accident is reported as a fatal cave-in on the job site.
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Dick Mount
Jefferson
Glidden
Still Practicing Osteopath Charles Collier at 90
Dr. Charles Collier of Clarinda remains in practice as an osteopath after 53 years. He became blind at 28 and is now 90 years old, continuing his medical work with the same dedication.
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Charles Collier
Clarinda
Collier
Woman Answers Driver License Exam Question
A motorist being tested for a driving license is asked about the white line in the road. She replies that it is for bicycles, revealing a humorous misunderstanding during the examination.
Iowa City Election Dates Change Move Target Ad
The Iowa legislature increased the state patrol to 186 men and authorized an eventual 225, with new members on duty and existing raises granted. The state beer permit board revoked four permits and faces eight more under review. Bingo games are banned again in Polk County and Des Moines as veterans groups are accused of evading gambling laws. The Iowa liquor control commission paid 100 to George S. May Co for a preliminary warehouse study, which recommended a more efficient warehouse. the study was dropped afterward.
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State Executive Council
Polk Co
Des Moines
Frank Mabee
Mabee
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Ft. Des Moines Army Post
George 5. May Co
Chicago
Liquor Commission
May
Elgin Local News Bout of Weekend Visits and Hospital Note
Local item details visits across several towns including Winthrop Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. Mrs Doyle Baker remains hospitalized for observation at St Josephs New Hampton. Ames coaching clinic attended by Paul Zurbriggen and Bertram Kurth.
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John Tillotson
Ruth
Winthrop
Otis Torkelson
Des Moines
Verne Frieden
West Union
Milan Stansbury
Paul Broadbent
Hawkeye
Lester Martin
Crystal Lake
Mike Adrian
Wm. Larson
Walter Butikofer
Ekader
Earl Aanes
Fayette
R. L. Grimes
Claude Church
Henry Feller
Nina Davis
Wadena
Harold Strong
Louis Dennler
Ida Casper
Franklin Park
Mil
R. P. Strauc
Paul Waters
Postville
Wm. Grover
Waterloo
Marshalltown
C. B. Schari
McGregor
Ruth Congdon
W. C. Harrington
Louis Thoma
Springville
Keith Thoma
Clermont
Lake Bowstring
Deer River
Minn
Wm. Gruver
Chambersburg
Elmer Gruver
Clara Matz
Greensburg
Ind
Jess Grimes
W. C. Mitchell
Louis Dennier
Arnold Saunders
Oscar Frieden
Rudy Possehil
Roland
West Bend
Charles Frieden
Maurice Ditterson
Blooming Prairie
Clarence Burnden
Otto Warner
Cedar Rapids
Elgin Eclo
Paul Zurbriggen
Elgin High
Bertram Kurth
Ames
Lorence Muehlethaler
Barbara
Estherville
Chas
Wilbur Motors sales pitch for classic used cars
A list of used cars from Wilbur Motors in West Union Iowa includes 1950 Ford two ton truck 2 speed, 1950 Ford ton pickup, 1950 Ford 2 door delivery, 1495 Ford 4 door Custom 8 with overdrive, 1949 Ford delivery 2 door, 198 Hudesn 4 door, 1948 Chevrolet 2 door, 1946 Chevrolet 2 door, 1949 Chevrolet 2 door, 1949 Mercury 2 door, 1949 Mercury 4 door, 1940 Ford 2 door, 1939 Mercury 2 door plus financing offers and contact for sales and service.
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Chevrolet
Mercury
Ford
Wilbur Motors
West Union
Iowa
Broadcaster Harrassed Husband and the Neighbors
A string of dated quips and jokes unfolds with a husband lamenting money woes and a wife blaming neighbors. The scenes shift between flirtatious lines, gambling analogies, and social banter. A final exchange shows a driver causing a fainting near a pedestrian in a humorous misfire.
Latvian refugee Hans Sikna seeks new home in Graettinger
Hans Sikna a year old displaced person from Lavtia arrives in Graettinger to settle with sponsorship from the Lutheran church. His wife and son are under similar sponsorship at Aberdeen South Dakota and will join him later in Graettinger. In a separate incident Mrs Earl Gillespie 48 of near Centerville died from injuries after falling in front of a horse drawn mowing machine. her husband operated another mower ahead of her.
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Hans Sikna
Lavtia
Graettinger
Sikna
Aberdeen
Dak
Earl Gillespie
Centerville
Gillespie
Railroad Gone Ends Old Schleswig Mondamin Line
Last week marked the end of an era as crews finished tearing up 54 miles of track on the Schleswig Mondamin line. Built around 1890, the historic route disappears from the region's landscape as work completes on the dismantling project.
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Schleswig- Mondamin
Worknen
Schleswig-Mondamin
Airplane aids search for lost child near Dunlap
Two year old Carol Kramer vanished from home and was found by Harvey Weber flying a light plane over a farm near Dunlap. He spotted the toddler alone in a corn field and she was unharmed.
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Dunlap
Carol Kramer
Harvey Weber
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