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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1933
Page
3
The Clermont Enterprise serves Clermont Iowa with weekly Thursday morning editions. Mrs H B Greenley is listed as local editor and the paper notes its membership in national press associations and its post office mailing status in Fayette County Iowa.
The Argo Gazette notes Fayette county fair placed seventh in 1933 total receipts among 78 fairs surveyed at Des Moines annual meeting of fair officers. Only six fairs, including Spencer and Davenport, earned more, most with county aid. Fayette county received none. Concessions profits ranked fifth. premiums excluding speed ranked seventh.
A special train bearing insane Indians passed through Marquette late last night en route from Canton South Dakota to Washington DC where they will enter a government hospital. The train used top Pullman equipment and was supervised by doctors and a corps of trained nurses. Nine company detectives guarded the journey through Marquette News.
The Waukon Democrat notes that supporting farmers through the corn-hog program promises relief. Businessmen gain orders, manufacturers hire more workers, and wages rise as employees buy more farmer products, signaling better times ahead.
A reader questions why strong pro disarmament women do not remove their war paint and asks others to report this remark seen in the Echo.
A newspaper column examines highway center line costs, estimating 110000 gallons of black center line paint needed for 2000 barrels and a total center line and guard rail paint bill near 60000 dollars. It argues the public pays to keep lines precise and urges caution to stay off the line. It also touches on NRA and CWA labor politics, urging work and progress through enterprise.
A South African department store owner touring the United States claims American clerks are not polite or attentive. The merchant insists courtesy and attention are essential virtues for sales staff and prefers staff who make customers feel important, even if they lack beauty.
Advertisers in Clermont may pay advertising accounts at the Farmers Savings Bank with receipts issued at payment. Bring invoices to the bank for settlement. The note reflects on future opportunities and civic obligation to the community and its institutions.
A compact snippet notes how the DOTETAS or Doretas group discusses matriculation styles and how Italians handle band performances when engaging with English language contexts. It highlights cultural language interactions and performance traditions in a brief observant tone.
A collection of oddities and garbled phrases, including jokes about BONERS in exams, references to Caesar, plant protection, human growth, optimists, monogamy, Paderewski, and a butterfly with painted wings, dated 1933 and Beil synai in Service.
Jerry Muskrat in the Smiling Pool narrates a dawn scene with Reddy Fox and Billy Mink. Reddy teases questing about Jerry’s storehouse as Jerry gathers fine roots for winter. Reddy claims to have found storied carrots and offers them to Jerry, hinting at prep for the coming cold season.
The text outlines typical daily meals with items such as cottage cheese bread butter milk and fruit for breakfast and a larger dinner including lean meat vegetables bread butter milk and fruit. It presents two sample meal patterns with minor OCR errors.
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