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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
1
R P Strauch is recorded as entered in the Elgin Iowa post office in Fayette County as second class mail matter under postal regulations.
Cards of Thanks See one dollar In Memoriam cards and memorial notices priced to fit church society school notices. Obituary poetry and resolutions of respect charged at regular advertising rates.
In this Christmas 1940 column Rich reflects on the year’s events and the hope for 1941. He thanks readers, urges fair play and second chances, and recalls Santa, calendars, and holiday cheer. He notes calendar shortages at the post office and muses on character, fairness, and effort in life and sport.
Dec 29 Echo file item notes Mrs. W. H. Finke learned her brother C. B. Phillips died after an illness and hospital stay. Death preceded surgery. A family reunion occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Christ.
Last Sunday the Christ family and relatives filled a Waterloo home for Christmas. Seventy year old Mr. Christ and his sixty nine year old wife celebrate forty seven years of marriage with all nine children present, including Lew John Will Clifford, and daughters Edith Christ Fot Waterloo Mrs Frank Bell Maple Rapids Mich Mrs Albert Halverson Cut Bank Mont Mrs George White West Union. Frank Capper and wife visited from Dike with parents Mr and Mrs T J Capper. Mrs John Stanton and Ina visited Webster City with daughter Melrose. Dr Hutchinson returned from Spillville. Mrs Oscar Gunderson and daughter of Brown's Valley Minn visited the Gunderson home. A boy born to Mr and Mrs Gottlieb Dennier east of town Christmas morning joins the family for twenty one years. Mrs Rudy Rothlisberger welcomed a baby boy Dec 21 at the G E Medberry home. Flossie and Susie Robbins received a Shetland pony as a Christmas gift from their father.
W A Kneeland the Postville State Bank cashier was appointed chair of the Banking Analysis Committee of the Iowa Bankers Association by president H R Young this week, per the Postville Herald.
After 65 years of marriage, Mr and Mrs L B Laughtin offer advice to the younger generation. Stay at home occasionally, don't carry family arguments too far, and apply the give and take principle.
U S Department of Justice ordered the expulsion of Princess Stefanie Hohenlohe Waldenburg Schillingsfurst. She was found with Fritz Weidemann German consul in San Francisco and fled before year’s end. The arrival photo shows her in New York aboard the SS Veendam December 22 1939 from England where her salon hosted British aristocrats. A painting of Hitler hung in her London flat.
State records show on January 6 1841 a will for Henry Frieden will be heard in Fayette County District Court for admission to probate. Local real estate transfers reported include Farmers Savings Bank Clermont to H H Dohrer WD 3000 and parcel details. Marriage licenses listed Oscar Hangartner Doris Miller Dayle Bennett Audrey Ames. A English health note promotes daily barefoot exercises using grass as part of a general wellbeing program proposed by Captain Parker.
An archaic note compares speculative buyers at ancient Rome to modern sellers offering homes on installment terms dating back to Caesar’s era. This brief contrasts early credit-like practices with today’s housing market cellars.
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