29 Dec 1932
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1932
Page
1
A local appeal urges residents to channel political zeal into community growth. The writer laments post election apathy, urges support for local business, employment, and investment, and questions why effort isn’t directed toward improving town income and institutions. The piece calls for steady civic energy focused on regional prosperity.
The article laments the rise of fake schemes selling ad space on time cards and calendars. It notes locals repeatedly bite when a stranger touts advertising, while home-town solicitors are trusted less. Authorities warn these schemes are illegitimate and that real newspaper advertising remains effective.
In Slatonite, Lanark Gazette argues railroads seek no special favors or deregulation but equal competition. A fair desk for the public, a level playing field, would strengthen transportation, support about a million jobs, and sustain rail industry leadership in community development.
The piece proclaims the farmer as the global backbone and essential provider to mankind. It frames agriculture as America’s prosperity, defense, and moral purpose, praising the farmer’s toil, harmony with nature, and daily rise with dawn as the energy of life and civilization.
South town residents modified a sedan by removing its motor and attaching two farm horses. A tongue on the front seat indicates travelers enjoy motorist comfort at slower speeds. The owner avoids motor vehicle license fees and gas taxes, Arlington News reports.
Decorah will start a mattress factory after January 1, employing five people. Arthur Benz of Maynard is hired as buttermaker at Fayette creamery to begin March 1, after years at Maynard. A Waverly auction saw corn sell at 22c per bushel, buyer hauling 1,200 bushels six miles to his farm.
On Sunday near Clermont a family, Mr. and Mrs. A J Philips and daughter Mrs. Winifred Sullivan, spotted a huge bird in a field on the Aanes farm between here and the Brick City. The creature stood about two feet high with a wicked gaze and a formidable beak as observed in passing.
In a Postville Herald note, Lonnie remarks that a crook’s boast of grabbing holds could pose a formidably dangerous foe if Nitto attacked. Lonnie muses that with Frank Buck present, the birdship would have been brought back alive.
A mistress questions a nanny about how children behaved during a bath. The dialogue contrasts a “biggest boy” who fights and nearly harms her with the realization that the speaker meant a husband disguised as a boy. The piece plays on misheard language and gendered roles.
A humorous collection of old time quips on manners, dating, and social norms. It ponders a misfit Miss, a bachelor with a baby, advice on criticism, and the value of a dollar spent at home versus earning more elsewhere. The tone mirrors a light society column with pithy observations.
The Waucoma Bank, once a private institution, distributed its first dividend to depositors in the Monday morning meeting attended by Clerk Traeger and Linus Putz as assignee. Also noted are local notes about residents Guisiig family and Schroeders visiting George Vaughn, and a reflection on Democratic victory in a Chicago Press comment.
Fragment from an old page records a quarrel line with drunken imagery and a whispered insult. The dialogue references a sister in a lurid, sepulchral tone, suggesting a tense social scene in a decayed setting.
The article explains that yellow leg color signals laying status in hens. When high production begins the legs shed pigment, yielding pale or white legs in best layers. After production ends and during molt the yellow pigment returns, with hog color serving as a guide.
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