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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1935
Page
3
The Britt Tribune recounts a revived hob o convention at the county fair on August 22. Editor E N Bailey sparked the original hoax decades ago. The event drew several hobos and was more a town boosting entertainment than a real gathering.
Lady Winstead visits Niagara Cave on the Minnesota border to catalog its underground waterfall and add Iowa’s cavern to her global list. Accompanying her are Dr Caddock of Australia. visitors from Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Hawaii and Canada.
A 5 pound lawbook fell five stories from an Iowa City law firm during moving, injuring pedestrian Josephine Walsh. In Algona, Highway Patrol flagged a first Oklahoma Indian as a highway law violator, with John Blackhawk fined $3 and $2 costs for failing to stop at Highway 18 and 169. A land dispute triggers a major Wapello County lawsuit as Thomas and Elizabeth Lancey sue over four inches of property.
The column recaps a mix of small town happenings from Iowa: a brick Utecht drug store encroaches four inches on land, a cotton crop note in Muscatine, and employment gains. Bohemian Kolach Day draws crowds, while an elderly man sells his first wife's gold-rimmed glasses for pension tax. Other items include a Revolutionary era side saddle, a speed-record toy wagon ride, Ralph Bradford’s travel log, Central Africa elephant tusk shipment to Algona, a Plymouth Rock hen guarding spaniel pups, 100th birthday celebrations, Iowa potter uses colored clays, a cemetery solace seeker in Algona, and honors for a long-serving school board secretary. The miscellany ends with river travelers Carsten Winger and Walker Sandbach returning to Decorah after a cross-country canoe trip to New Orleans.
In a historical note London’s oldest business entity is identified with the College of Heralds, founded around 135. Heralds are still appointed by the King to perform court duties and assist civilians in genealogical inquiries such as family trees.
The article describes red and white horizontal striped buoys marking obstructions or shoals in a channel. It explains that red buoys are flat topped and cylindrical, while black and white conical buoys with numbers guide ships. In entering harbor, red buoys are kept on the starboard right side, while black and white buoys with aid numbers are kept on the port left side.
English royal male members in residence in Scotland follow the Sovitish custom of wearing kitts at all formal events while the women wear searte of appropriate Mabis.
Before 1840 the strawberry was not a commercial crop in the United States and was regarded as a wild fruit. This note traces the fruit’s early status and shifts in perception prior to its agricultural development.
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