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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
2
Wadena area notices include a Rooster Pancake dinner at the Presbyterian church on Saturday with pancakes and sausage. Several local families and church groups are mentioned with social visits, meetings, and card club events throughout the week, plus town residents attending services and gatherings.
For 133 years a fire has burned in a grate at the isolated Saltersgate Inn near Pickering England and likely will keep burning. The blaze began in the days of stage coaches and never went out as travelers arrived at all hours seeking warmth. The inn keeper chose to keep the fire burning rather than relight it when heard the coach horn, and railways did not change that habit.
The harpsichord, a popular instrument of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, produces a tone entirely different from that of the clavichord because strings of the latter are struck by tangents instead of being blac ked or twanged by quills.
Gretna Green, a small southern Scotland village across the border from England, has long been a favorite elopement site due to its easy marriage laws drawing couples from England and beyond.
A Washington bureau employee has spent twelve years testing radium, weighing and measuring 70 grams of the highly dangerous substance valued at five million dollars.
The term sarcophagus derives from Greek meaning flesh eater. Originated from a limestone myth said to consume the whole body except the teeth within 40 days.
The tale places the Fountain of Youth at the Bimini Islands near Florida. Ponce de Leon is said to have landed there while seeking the legendary spring.
A reflective remark attributed to Hi Ho in Chinatown suggests that those who appear happiest may simply mask private pain. The line hints at a philanthropic urge driving public cheerfulness and neighborly protection.
Reports show higher farm hand wages this fall and rising lending interest in farmland. Dairy cows priced for Bangs testing indemnities, while beef farmers gain relative advantage. Gas from charring wood powers heavier motor cars. soybeans boost milk yields but not as sole protein source. Whitewash tips and slacking lime advice accompany farm guidance.
The article explains latex as 30 percent rubber suspended as microscopic particles, akin to cream. It details spoilage on standing, and the shift from evaporating over a fire to using acetic acid to coagulate rubber into white sticky clots, then pressed into slabs ready for shipment.
The passage lists 22 oil producing states with several misspellings and inaccuracies including Illinois spelled Ilinois Indians Kansas Kentucky Wyombe and other typos. It attempts to enumerate states such as Arkansas California Colorado Illinois Louisiana Michigan Mississippi Missouri Montana New Mexico New York Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Utah West Virginia and Wyoming.
From Bridgetown, Barbados comes the report of the landing of what is believed to be the largest turtle ever caught in the West Indies. The monster, weighing 735 pounds and measuring six feet, required twelve men in two boats to land it after it became entangled in nets off the Crane coast.
A Capper's Weekly passage argues that over 3,421 years war persisted on any part of the globe except 270 years. It claims 8,000 peace treaties lasting about two years each and 24 different nation combinations forming and dissolving akin to the League of Nations.
A new species of ermine has been discovered in the Komy region of Russia near the Ural mountains. An expert in fur-bearing animals found the creatures and tested their fur and hide, which are claimed to be superior in quality to most ermine on sale.
A former uninhabited Italian swamp known as fttoris was drained by the government and is now farmed by 60,000 families in modern homes. Littoria was recently incorporated as the ninety third province of the Italian empire.
Education Now Cheap New Zealand asserts its educational system is the cheapest among civilized nations. It states schooling costs are only one and a half cents per day per child in state schools while claiming the instruction provided is of the highest standard.
A brief Pathfinder Magazine line questions Bobby about spunk and its meaning. Bobby answers that spunk is air and the line plays on spelling and playful language. The exchange hints at old time humor and school day mischief.
The Washington monument uses New England granite with Maryland marble, not stones from every state. One hundred seventy nine stones from cities counties and states plus foreigns contributed, with the upper 60 feet sheathed in marble. The Echo invites readers to send news items to print in general interest town reporting.
The claim that gasoline freezes is incorrect as fuel has no true freezing point. At extremely low temperatures such as 90 to 100 degrees below zero, gasoline becomes waxy and stiff rather than freezing, due to its varying hydrocarbon composition.
An assessment of extemporaneous music notes it pleases the ear yet defies conventional harmony rules, prompting discussion among critics about artistic freedom and technical standards.
A fragment notes America achieving a peak in global cotton trade with the nation’s industrial might showcased at a major fair or exposition. The item hints at national pride in industrial progress and the prominence of cotton in trade dominance.
A California scientist has devised a solar stove capable of baking bread. After sunset the oven cools but retains enough heat to broil bacon and bake biscuits in the morning.
Answers Magazine presents a witty exchange where a speaker asks if marriage to an inferior is wise and receives a firm denial. The brief dialogue spotlights humor about social standing in relationships.
A bristling Tit-Bits Magazine item features sharp quips about leadership and ego as rival reputations clash. The exchange hints at pride and status within the business world, with barbed remarks reflecting a front-page skirmish for attention.
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