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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1935
Page
4
Rates outline 25 words 25 cents and 1 cent per extra word with 10 cent weekly handling for mail replies. Inquiries for boots for sale, plat-book return, Elgin Kniel property sale by Grether's Realty Co. plus subscription club offers and note on remittance records. Echo office notices.
Canada is famed for lobster production with Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island and Quebec supplying nearly all global canned lobster. The combined output averages about 137900 cases per year from the Atlantic provinces.
The term Rabelaisian describes works by Francais Rabelais and similar authors famed for extravagant fiction grotesque mirth and coarse humor. It also applies to stories told by raconteurs sharing that same spirited style.
Geologists contest the idea that the Sahara was once a sunken sea and note incomplete understanding of desert formation. Some regions lie below sea level while peaks reach 8,800 feet, and many areas stand around 1,000 feet high.
The National Bureau of Standards occupies over 86 acres with 11 major and 7 minor buildings designed for specific work. The complex houses laboratory equipment and semi commercial plants across its diversified facilities.
The first European drinking cups were animal horns richly adorned. Sipping was viewed as womanlike. Etiquette required draining the flagon in a single draught though it held a quart of strong wine.
Ants sold as food are nearly wrapped up, available in Muhenge Tanganyika at a penny a picket, described as a native delicacy.
Language Akin to Hebrew Ponic¢, the tongue of ancient Carthaginians, closely resembles Hebrew in structure and roots, suggesting a shared Semitic heritage and linguistic links across the western Mediterranean. The note highlights similarities in phonology, grammar, and lexicon between these closely related vernaculars.
A fro was an instrument used by early pioneers to split clap boards in the operation known as riving.
The Echo urges residents to send reports news items and general happenings to the office for publication. It asks for cooperation and assistance from the community to share town news and events.
A stray tree seed blown into a second story window crevice of a Stone house in Winchester, Virginia, has grown for seventeen years. Owned by C. J. Bailey, the tree's roots have widened the crevice and now split the wall top to bottom, turning the historic house into a curiosity.
A New source of revenue emerges along Canada’s eastern shores owing to the Migratory Birds convention act. Eider down collection grows as protected nests on Gulf of St. Lawrence shores and islands yield more than an ounce per nest each season. Mothers shed down to cover eggs and collectors remove only part to avoid harming the eggs or disturbing the sitting hen.
The Boston Post notes mules still hauling ore cars in California quartz mines in the Mother Lode. They remain employed to avoid waste and death, thriving in a constant 67 degree underground climate. Males chew tobacco and refuse work without a hefty plug tucked under their tongues.
A Collier's Weekly note from J A Twamley explains the dread fire alarm 5 5 5 used in New York signaling a fire beyond control. It triggers up to 13 sap teams with about 30 lieutenants each, rushing to dynamite buildings in danger and fight the blaze themselves.
A colossal Pinus Monticola pine on McDonald Creek in Glacier National Park dates back to Columbus era exploration. It rises about 180 feet with a buttressed base reaching 1044 feet in girth and a trunk diameter tapering to just under seven feet four feet above ground.
On Samso, residents plan to refuse fines and court imprisonment to use the prison’s new heating system. The 1860 facility was replaced by a modern plant, but records show the prison never housed more than two inmates at a time, making the upgrade seem like an unnecessary luxury.
A California sculptor works with metal instead of marble or clay and uses a blowtorch rather than a chisel. He builds grotesque figures of wrought iron, modeling the hot metal with an acetylene torch, a welding rod, and pliers, as featured in Popular Mechanics Magazine.
A sophomore debating team member boasts of a real battle of wits while his roommate taunts him with a quip about going unarmed, capturing campus humor in a brief dialogue.
Chronic rheumatism usually called arthritis is described as the most important industrial and social disease in the temperate zones of America. The term highlights arthritis as a major health and social burden affecting workers and communities.
Local brief lists residents returning home for Christmas and visiting relatives. Names include Frank Kiple Jesup Pearl Grimm Chicago Harold Swartley Fayette and others from Oelwein Alta Vista Floyd Elma Madison and nearby towns. Several travel for holiday gatherings and a few attend events or funerals.
Franc DeSart reports his cousin William Butcher of Forest City died on December 12. Funeral services were held December 16 at the Methodist church. He was born July 26, 1856 in Elgin, son of Thomas and Nancy Butcher, and lived with his sister Anna Butcher. a Forest City pioneer._neighbors and relatives mention Sunday visitations and family gatherings as local notices from Camp Sturgeon River to Sumner.
Youthful Alexandre Dumas wanders toward Paris seeking fame and fortune by poaching partridges to fund lodging and travel. His early bid for success hinges on bold chases and risky ventures along the road to city life.
The report notes 84 federal fish hatchery stations and substations with the Marion Ohio site offering the greatest ground space and pond area, while the Boot Bay Harbor Maine hatchery leads in output.
Brasa recalls a proverb about friendship in need as a customer seeks a loan. A lunker confirms the saying while addressing a stranger. The exchange hints at urgency and social norms in lending contexts.
A punkah is a large ceiling fan in tropical regions like India. It has a sturdy wood frame covered with calico and is suspended from the ceiling, operated by a native servant to stir air in a room.
The article notes that no creature sees in absolute darkness yet many eyes adapt to very dim light. Owls and cats can navigate in nights that feel almost shadowed, using enhanced vision to function when light is scarce.
Lima lies ten degrees nearer the Equator than Rio de Janeiro yet remains cooler overall due to the Humboldt current. The ocean current exerts a cooling influence, offsetting latitude differences for these two sea level coastal cities.
The health officer states oysters may be considered very safe as a food, noting spoilage is easily detaching and that the product poses low risk when properly handled and served.
Instructions urge inspecting roofs for damage to slates tiles or shingles and replacing or securing broken parts with cement where needed. In social notes Ernestine Holzer hosted Chas Bachtell Bob Kelleher of Postville and Donna Wenger of Elgin last Friday night in honor of Bob Kelleher birthday. Refreshments were served at the cafe.
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