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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
4
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Legislative notes from the Iowa State Capitol highlight liquor permit plans, tax exemptions, and a million-dollar appropriation for the control commission as prohibition laws face repeal. Separate items report House scrutiny of the highway commission, a waste treatment bill, and licensing live stock buyers, plus a stalled bill to bar married women from certain jobs.
Toltec age relics found by Ralica of Toltes Aga Scientista in Mexico. Ruins of a 40 room home uncovered in the pyramid zone near the capital.
Containing spinach cabbage eggs milk and liver, these items provide calcium or Vitamin D essential for preventing tooth decay. The list highlights common sources used to maintain dental health and bone strength.
The piece highlights Miles Standish as a model for proposing ideas, emphasizing how its chief value lies in teaching people to present proposals effectively.
OCR fragment references discovery of humorous exam tidbits, a misquoted exchange between Edgar and Edmund, US citizenship origins, Athena Acropolis under Pericles, colonial era battles, a hanging in Salen, Stevenson family clergy, and a 1942 Belt Syndicate WNU Hervise. Content is garbled with multiple topics and unclear context.
A collage of jokes and cartoons features Tommy asking about dining etiquette with a pie, a lamplight humor line about a red lantern, a caterpillar eating question at table, a window dressing room quip, a derailment incident with a colored porter, and a peck of social satire about onions not making heroes.
Invited audience attends a Christmas program at Jolly School on December 22 at 1:80 o clock. The lineup includes a New Stunt, Santa beliefs, Santa letters, operetta, songs, recitations, family topics, a Christmas joke, and band performances led by teacher Hilda Meyer with students Glen Dennler Marian Le Roy and Paul H. Meyer.
Large Elgin crowd traveled to West Bend early this week to attend the funeral of Eli Schneider found dead in his car Saturday. Officials reported a gunshot death deemed personal safety related. Schneider, about 30, was married to Moll Schneider of Elgin about eight years ago.
The Algona Advance argues that country newspapers face severe revenue loss as advertising halves. It urges every capable subscriber to pay at least one dollar on subscription to aid local publishers during this era.
A description of vast regions beyond direct British control comprising over a third of India's area and about a quarter of its population, yet not under British administration. The note highlights the contrast between colonial reach and local governance within these states.
The article notes the oldest toy distinction shared with a doll. It also covers social visits by Richard and Robert Schmid and others, a fatal cow barn incident involving Ed Alton, and editorials on a submitted communication. Community names include Mrs Lulu Schmid, C S Kaiel, John Falk, Fred Schuttz, Abe Habeger, Edward Shelton, Gus Krueger, Lillian and Esther Krueger, Hileen Evans, Fenton, Walsh, Gus Gunderson, Monona, and the Echo newspaper.
The Syria district welcomed the Church of Youth at Illyria church on Sunday evening. A full house required extra chairs as Lavanda Carr Thomas Shaffer and Geraldine Kohler organized the program with the Sunday school orchestra from the Methodist church. Performances included hymns, readings, and duets, plus a talk on will power by D. R. Cottrell. A free will offering raised 5.02 dollars, with forty percent donated to heat and lights at Illyria. The next meeting moves to the Elgin Methodist church on December 1.
Elgin teams prevailed in both games against Hawkeye High on the local floor Tuesday evening. The second team won 16 to 13 led by Wilson with 7 points. The first team won 14 to 9 as Krueger led with 4 points and others followed with 3s and 2s. Sauegling of Elkader officiated the contest.
The 27th annual Christmas seal campaign runs through December 24 supporting local child health efforts. Proceeds aid families with sickness, milk and nutrition, nursing, dental inspection, first aid camps, tuberculosis and heart clinics, health education, pre school well baby stations, and school supplies. Buy seals to help needy children and contact an Elgin Study Club member to obtain them.
In the county league two games were reported Elgin beat Fayette 12 to 11 at Elgin and Randalia defeated Oran 38 to 9.
Fayette county sustains 466 on Civil Works with 21 projects and 60 new hires this week. Payroll nears 288 dollars daily as workers receive checks, while women will join later with sewing and mending programs. Highway crew at Fayette quarry to February 15 supports Fayette Sumner road work. Editor column on newspaper ethics closes the item.
A passage notes Dead Sea water carries about 187 pounds of salt per ton, while Atlantic Ocean water has roughly 81 pounds of salt per ton, highlighting the high salinity of the Dead Sea.
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