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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1932
Page
4
A collage of want ads lists rates for small and large insertions, cash terms, and tele phone payments. Items include dressed geese for Christmas, a two year old Holstein bull, Velie buggy, typewriter supplies, and club offers on newspaper bundles. Unique quotes and humorous snippets cap the page.
The item promotes Dixie Gas with claim of better miles per gallon at Kiple's Service Station in Elgin. It also lists local residents and social notes including visits, illnesses, and a birthday surprise for Mrs. Wesley Miller Jr. in Independence with attendees from West Union Elgin Waterloo and Waterloo.
A Third Assistant Postmaster General statement bans placing sale bills circulars and other matter in rural route letter boxes without regular postage. Rural carriers must notify senders of postage due and request payment. Iowa Publisher. A sharp tongue remark follows about straightforward talk.
A fragment explains the Christmas greens custom of hanging evergreens at the house during the holiday season. Each evergreen type carried believed blessings: holly for luck, laurel for beauty and poetry, conveyed to passers beneath its boughs. The notes mention Missoury Parmer as a source.
A historical note on the peacock as a Christmas dish in England, detailing skinning, plating with gilt, leaf gold, and spirits light, stuffing with spices and fruits, egg yolk baste, and grand service by noble ladies for distinguished guests including a dinner for William IV, duke of Clarence, in Grenada.
Grand Meadow neighbors and families are listed visiting Decorah Concord’s weekend events. Several households hosted dinners and gatherings including Olson, Reinhart, Lien, Scholen, and Lyngan families. Ruth Peterson returns for Christmas break from Forest City while Halversons and Landa gard visit. Sunday school practices begin for the Christmas program led by Ardes Olson and Irene Helgerson. Christmas tree program set for Monday evening. Archie Johnson missed school due to illness.
Echo subscribers are asked to notify the subscription department promptly of any changes in their addresses. Under the new postal laws newspapers and periodicals must pay postage due for notices of address changes furnished by the post office. Delays in delivery or failure to receive the paper occur. The best plan is to send the change of address in advance.
An old account in Stow's Survey of London describes King Richard II hosting a royal Christmas at Westminster Hall. The feast featured daily jousting and grand pageantry, with vast meat and fowl provisions, a royal gown of gold for the king, and a large retinue including bishops, knights, and hundreds of attendants.
The article traces Yuletide dining from Anglo Saxon feasts to modern punch bowls. It notes stuffed boars, geese, capons, and the unfamiliar turkey, adds that the punch bowl named waes hael derived from a blessing meaning be in health, and mentions mince pie origins and Puritan opposition.
A garbled note hints at keeping warm during Yule by employment in a basement toy department as Santa Claus. The fragment suggests a whimsical or historical context without clear dates or names.
A humorous note about Marion Jack near-sightedness suggests not all difficulty in seeing under the mistletoe signals eye trouble. Myrtle comments on the situation with playful banter, reflecting lighthearted social notes of the period.
Postville high school pupils voted on the Wet and Dry proposition in line with a movement. A total of 129 votes were cast with 100 in favor of maintaining the present law while 15 girls voted for repeal of the Volstead law and the 18th Amendment.
Miss Rosemarie Hansen of Boong Boone county facing lifelong illness seeks money through a drastic offer to turn her body over after death for examination. Her family hopes to use the funds to support them, while she hopes to aid relatives with the proceeds. Local readers are invited to send news tips to the paper.
A fragmented Christmas message piece opens with goodwill for a cheerful Yuletide and New Year. It mentions a boy friend, a car joke about a flat tire, and a family note about Christmas cards and a home with storm sash. The garbled text also references automobile years, income, overhead, and upkeep.
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