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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1927
Page
8
Wright County Press reports a farm near Silver Creek was visited by two poultry commission men who pledged to buy chickens. They bought none and left three coops to be picked up next morning. The men left without paying, taking the coops and birds during the night.
Congressman William R. Johnson of Freeport and Rep. John Acker discussed a Carroll County Jackson County bridge linking Savanna and Sabula during a Savanna visit ahead of the December 1 congressional session. Johnson pledged to push for the project though it would be large and require cross river support.
At the society's annual meeting secretary Stafford stated the Fayette County Fair has shown a seven year profit of 345,416 with 36,748 spent on permanent improvements. The seven year period adds to the six year Iowa fair record, while premiums paid total 28,300 averaging 4,056 yearly.
Residents of eastern Iowa praise an exceptionally sunny October two weeks of ideal weather. The Sabula Gazette extols Iowa’s October climate as unmatched, suggesting Californians miss its exhilaration.
Rattlesnake hides fetch $5 to $6 for black diamond specimens and larger hides yield oil at $22 an ounce, driving high market value. Rancher Glen Crawford of Elko Nevada earns extra income hunting snakes. Vehicle for ads shows railroads expanding ad space in cities as they seek customers. Paving near Castalia Ossian paused for winter with work resuming in spring. A fox capture by Charley Hampton ends with sale to Ray Bohonek. University of Hard Knocks bans students from sending home for money.
Chicago rector Rev. George Craig Stewart argues youth remain neither better nor worse than predecessors. He notes parental influence shapes the so called jazz age and cites his Northwestern ties as a trustee with two sons there. He critiques modesty standards across eras.
Iowa remains the largest state for marketing fat cattle, even as Texas leads in total beef production. Data from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and federal reports show Iowa feeders supplied 45.8 percent of Chicago beef steer receipts last year, totaling 746,249 head, with highs of 49 percent in 1923, 47.9 percent in 1924, and 43.6 percent in 1925. Separate grades show substantial Iowa contributions across choice, good, and medium steer categories.
A Webster Freeman Journal letter argues the car tax system is unequal. Higher gasoline use yields vastly different annual road costs for similar vehicles, suggesting gasoline taxes be adjusted to raise required revenue, with a proposed $1 increase.
Des Moines and central and southern Iowa reported no killing frost up to November 1. Marketplaces offered string beans cucumbers tomatoes lettuce radishes and garden truck. Flowers bloomed while trees were bare preparing for Jack Frost. The piece also quotes reflections on diligence and forethought, noting the wartime grave tally and a Scots seed-gift anecdote.
Read the ads and save money. Dr L S Hutchinson, dentist, with 22 years in Eigin appears in a local notice. The Winterset Madisonian quotes a sharp town definition of a hick town as one where city officials permit street fakirs and traveling peddlers on street corners. The piece hints at europe's mortgage tensions through a parable about a man buying a car and clashing with a mortgage holder.
A clipped note cites sale of scratch pads at Echo Office and humor about 1927 as a year when American women focused on stockings and skirts. The piece ridicules interruption by a car salesman boasting about a gas cart, reflecting period social chatter.
A compact reflection on temper as a sign of character, praising restraint and self control. It argues temper is a valuable trait that should be preserved but not loved or clinged to, suggesting prudence in how we value it.
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