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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
4
Closing out auctions listed for December 6 near Postville also December 7 near West Union for Melvin Reinhart and December 12 for Mrs C Drewes north of West Union. West Union sales held every Thursday including Thanksgiving with Orvin Thompson as the auctioneer.
A writer in the Indianapolis News says the President cannot be legally arrested for any act during the term. Impeachment can remove him, after which he may be arrested. Historical anecdotes include Pierce’s 1853 accidental arrest and Grant’s 1872 fast driving incident with a vice versa response.
The Detroit Free Press notes that Dr Joseph Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine and died peacefully, while describing existing methods of execution in France during the revolution and the later adoption of a machine for death.
The article describes Azerbaijan as largely Muslim, outlining its location with neighbors including Daghestan and Armenia. It notes Baku as capital with 452,000 people, and recalls 1917 federation with Armenia and Georgia, its 1918 declaration of independence, and status as the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic within the Russian Soviet family.
The 200 year old Rikugi gen garden in Tokyo, a 23 acre historic site with a large central pond and rock arrangements, was donated to the municipality. Originating about 1700 around Yanagisawa Yosiyasu’s villa, the garden reproduces scenes from poems with arbors茶 houses rare plants and gifts from neighbors.
The analysis notes Germany misread Britain’s posture in 1914. Berlin assumed much of the British army would be needed in Ireland to maintain order and expected labor unrest to keep England occupied at home. The regime also believed militant suffragist pressure would deter Britain, viewing women's rights as a sign of decay.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer writer notes hair color has no link to talent. The piece lists historical figures with red hair such as Bunyan, Peter the Great, Swinburne, Lowell, and Coolidge, contrasting with black or dark haired examples like Coleridge and Webster. It also mentions brown haired leaders and blondes like Keats and Thackeray to argue hair color is not indicative of ability.
A Pearson's London Weekly writer extols the human body as a marvelous self repairing mechanism that manufactures materials for repair and requires only fuel food and air. The piece explains oxygen's role in blood and energy and notes yawning signals the body craving more oxygen when air is stuffy.
A compact explanation traces the terms from synonymy to distinction. Ale, a paler malt liquor with less hops and higher alcohol, is generally sweeter due to unfermented saccharine matter. Beer governs as a broad malt liquor category.
Placer gold is recovered by washing gravel to remove lighter rock and then processing the concentrate with cyanide. Sodium cyanide dissolves gold, which is precipitated with zinc, while chlorination uses chlorine to form gold chloride and precipitates with ferrous sulfate. The bullion contains traces of silver copper iron and other metals removed by sulfuric acid treatment and electrolysis.
The article discusses the four main blood groups and states no single type is superior. It notes that research by the United States Public Health Service found animal blood incompatibility and that human blood types vary without an inherently better type.
The piece notes students sending typing and shorthand test records to Gregg Writer for certificates as a new six week term begins. It details class goals to reach 25 words per minute with limits on errors, a junior quartet singing at a Methodist church event, eighth graders studying World War alliances, and a student autobiography column featuring Betty Schori’s life memories from 1926 to 1938 including family weddings, trips, scoops of school and nursing ambitions.
The Intermediate Room held a Thanksgiving party the last period on Wednesday afternoon. Three home economics girls helped serve refreshments including pumpkin pie and whipped cream. December helpers include room committee Georgann Falb Barbara Wilson and Dorothy Torkelson proctors Walter Martin Kenneth Foscher librarian Jane Falb.
On Wednesday afternoon the 8th and 4th grades hosted a Thanksgiving party. The event was organized by Delores Torkelson, George Christen, James Dawson, June Grimm, Edna Nelson, Bertha Jane Casper, and Ivan Torkelson. Following the games, refreshments were served.
The article outlines four dog gaits: walking with a straight hind foot touch, pacing with both feet on one side off the ground, trotting as a faster walk, and galloping where the front feet lift high while the hind legs power the forward jump.
The highest ranking ambassadors serve as senior officials in the foreign service, with duties including directing diplomatic efforts and representing national interests. Ambassadors are posted to major countries and capitals, overseeing embassies and coordinating with host governments on policy and cooperation.
Farmers may obtain wheat loans through local AAA offices while grinding of soybeans and hay is questioned unless feeders have limited rations and own grinding equipment. The piece notes soil conservation trees on 1,472,350 acres and discusses trade impacts and 1938 corn loan details for farmers with allotments.
Farmers gain options to insure crops using surplus wheat while government wheat loans support orderly marketing. Soybean crop for 1938 is estimated at 54 million bushels, a record high, with economists expecting continued price declines. Cautions on ventilation in poultry houses note health and egg production risks, and dairy feeding practices warn of milk taint from certain silages. Beef cattle are urged to use their work efficiency.
Katherine Sire of Belt Montana and Lloyd Hawkins of Foss Oklahoma were honored as the outstanding 4-H club boy and girl at the International Livestock Exposition this week in Chicago.
The so called glass spike is described as a legless lizard with a brittle tail that breaks off with the slightest impact. The damaged tail fragments can reportedly regrow. The article notes the creature is not a true snake.
A Broadcaster criticizes a husband who allows a drafty home, noting the wife wears overshoes indoors. He urges insulation and storm sash to protect health, while the Humane Society calls for action. A dialog about husbands and a wife’s lack of clothes ends the fragment.
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