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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
2
The piece riffs on old quotes about liberty and mortality, then shifts to Wisconsin debt trends from 1915 to today, noting per capita debt rising from 20 to 335 as earning capacity lags behind living costs. It contrasts generations and measured time value, concluding with reflections on time versus wealth.
Debouching refers to issuing tracts from a narrow path forcing troops to advance in column or compact formation through a defile or woodland opening.
Wadena residents and families are noted in club gatherings and social events. Members and guests of the Keen-O-Bridge club and Auction bridge club share prizes and Christmas gifts, with lunches served, while Laurel Camp R. N. A. hosts report officer elections and a Christmas party. Other items mention choir concerts, council appointments, and local visits and family dinners amid holiday activity.
Sunday afternoon guests include Mr and Mrs Lawrence Whitcher and Richard of Clermont visiting the Whitcher home. H B Peterman and Helen joined in Cedar Rapids with the Ainsworth and Kunzman homes. Thiele family of Oehvein dined with Will Whittenbaugh. Kneeskern family visited Will Young. Alumni donated 10 to Wadena school for indoor games. Last year they bought a piano for the school and funded band books from the dance fund through the mid season alumni dance on Dec 28. Girls and Boys Glee Clubs hosted events at Arsen Welch home and skating party respectively under Meulder sponsorship.
The Fayette county farm bureau annual meeting features a 40 voice Farm Bureau women's chorus opening the program on Monday December 19 at 10 30 am in the Upper Iowa gymnasium. Officers will be elected before the dinner. Families should bring meat sandwiches and a side dish while coffee is provided. Forty members receive 10 year pins. Rural Women Sing in West Union
Plans for the annual meeting of the Northeast Iowa Soil Improvement Association were completed for Postville on Wednesday December 21 at 1:00 p.m. Members of the county Soil Improvement Committee and anyone interested in the work are invited to attend.
Prof. George R. Davies of the University of Iowa reports a favorable business outlook if labor and political attitudes remain unbiased. Town business lines show recent improvement nearly offsetting earlier losses, though overall activity remains below 1936 and 1937 levels.
Prices of farm products declined 7.8 percent in October compared with September, while gains occurred in building contracts railroad carloadings and retail sales. The year over year comparison shows a 25 percent drop from October 1937.
The English sign marked capital L with strokes stands for pounds or libra. The term pound sterling arises from a former silver weight system and is worth about five dollars in early context.
In Normandy near Rouen, the village of Allouville-Bellefosse houses a 1,200 year old majestic oak with a girth large enough for nine men to encircle. Its trunk contains two carved chapels and a guardian uses a key to unlock them during religious services held inside the tree.
The first refrigerator cars emerged in 1857 when an eastern railroad insulated some box cars and placed ice in doorways to move perishables.
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