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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
1
Kathryn J. Strauch, Local Editor, is entered in the post office at Elgin, Fayette County, Iowa, as second class mail matter.
A 1936 newspaper column outlines advertising rates for foreign and local display, readers, and classified ads, plus memorial and tribute notices. It urges newspapers to strengthen road-safety coverage with vivid accident reporting and statistical appeals to reduce automobile fatalities.
The Decorah Journal reports a widespread buying panic for canned foods across the middle west with grocers receiving large orders from fearful customers. A St Paul wholesaler says eastern canned goods are available and experts see little risk of a canned goods shortage. past World War I panic raised sugar prices from 28 to 17 cents.
The piece notes manufacturers pushing visible tax awareness for shoppers. A New York laundry adds two cents per bundle to cover unemployment insurance and social security costs, while a nationally known bakery considers printing a two cent deduction on each bread wrapper to show government costs included in price.
Nimrod is identified as the son of Cush and a mighty hunter. The text frames Nimrod as a rider and hunter of cities within biblical narrative context.
The Elgin Canning Company began work on its 1906 pack with machinery set in motion Monday before noon. Dr. P. Will, a Christiania Norway medical graduate, will locate in Elgin and open an office above Berg's clothing store. Local social notes mention marriages, travel, and a shift to overalls in the beet fields amid a cold snap and state fair attendance.
A sensational public hanging drew thousands as a Black defendant faced execution. The event sparked vast press coverage and grisly spectacle, with onlookers claiming trophies from the scene. The incident dominated the front page and fueled public fascination with violence.
An ancient chronicler asserts King Cole reigned in Britain in the third century A D and claims he was the father of Saint Helena who died about 28, and mother of Constantine the Great the Iranian emperor who made Byzantium his capital and who renamed it Constantinople.
The text recalls the dodo, a large flightless bird once native to Mauritius rather than Madagascar, noting it as extinct. It mentions a British stance to the east and a colloquial saying about being “As dead as the dodo,” reflecting historical anecdotes and linguistic phrases.
Unclear readable fragment describes nature prints and ornate beauty. Mentions Darailes and woke context, but details are fragmented.
A Monday evening event at Elgin ball park drew a good crowd for a rodeo with races and stunts, followed by a lopsided kittenball win for Maynard. Vernon Knight staged roping and rope spinning exhibitions to close the program.
The East Clermont Lutheran church celebrates its 85th anniversary with a festival on August 28 29 and 30. Speakers include Dr Jacob Tanner professor of theology St Paul Minn Dr Astrup Larson president Town district Dr Oscar Olson Luther College Decorah Rev C H Hjortholm former pastor and Dr T F Gullixon Luther Theological Seminary St Paul and vice president of the Nor wegian Lutheran Church of America.
The county fair opened Tuesday and shows substantial increases across departments. Total entries reach 4,037, up more than 750 from 1935, reflecting strong participation and community involvement.
The record notes early radio telephone experiments in 1914 and cites KDKA in Pittsburgh as the first station to broadcast on regular schedules in 1921. Home receiving sets appeared on the market that same year.
A Cossack post is an observation group in the U S Army consisting of four men similar to a sentry squad. It is stationed far from its lives and employs only one seating. The system is inspired by the Russian army and the Cossacks are described as the pick of the Russian cavalry.
A 2011 publication titled Deer Hide Book A fitlennry aud hawking was bound in part at least in the skin aff deer.
The Davis Players appeared from Thursday to Sunday, drawing fair crowds but short of expectations. A strong wind toppled their big tent near the depot, causing considerable damage. With the tent unusable, shows moved to local opera houses the other two nights, and Saturday night performance was skipped due to house occupancy. The company departed Sunday night for Tipton.
The Marshall Canning Co plant at Waverly expects a very small pack of sweet corn this season due to crop conditions. Typically 390 or more workers are employed, but this year only 100 to 150 will be needed. The plant also packs tomatoes and cucumbers.
The 1858 record notes that the Indian Hants or Iowa Indians, driven westward along the pioneer path, used Towa on their hunting grounds as the front moved westward, a discovery recently unearthed from archival material.
A historical fragment notes a method to collect rubber where Africans smeared tree latex on their skin and let it dry. The description reflects dated, ethnocentric language and situates traditional knowledge within a colonial gaze.
Butler's Feminine Marble marked an early effort to phonetic spelling in the seventeenth century, illustrating the period’s graphemic experimentation and push toward pronunciation-based orthography.
Britain's smallest parliament the Isle of Man House of Keys has 24 members who receive 250 dollars annually each.
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