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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1931
Page
4
Local notices detail ad rates of 1c per word weekly if prepaid, or 7 1-2c per line if not, with a 25c minimum. Items include a late 7-tube radio, a Paramount phonograph, a black gelding, harnesses, grain, a Shorthorn bull, pigs, a five room rental, solicitors, domestic work, property removal Notice, family washings, and various office supplies and stamps.
The Dan Sutter family and many neighbors visited in multiple homes during the weekend and Sunday. Several residents hosted quilting bees and card parties, with visits to Elgin and West Bend. farm work and illnesses noted, plus local exchanges and subscription offers.
Elgin school notes show lively interest in band with students Keith Thoma Kenneth Evans and others taking up corneting clarinet slide trombone and snare drum. Home economics students under Miss Olson begin Allied Arts focusing on color design and home decoration.
A compact reflection on flaws and virtues in people, noting that reading, temper, courage, and wealth shape character. The piece observes common hypocrisies, the lure of eloquence, time slipping away, and the irony of owning luxury without insight. It riffs on humanity’s self image and social behavior.
A settler in Maniiuan British East Africa reports a frightening jungle encounter. While returning home beside a path he felt a soft padding beside him and glimpsed five fully grown figures moving parallel on the path. He considered fleeing but pressed on, reaching his bungalow unsafe and unharmed.
The Vatican directory notes a revision in the papal titulature. The pope's temporal title is now Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, replacing the former Sovereign of the Temporal Dominion of the Holy Roman Church.
Workers uncover forty quarts of plum jam buried several feet underground during construction near the Ottawa university kitchen. The jam is alleged to have Jain buried in the grounds for 27 years, a claim linked to the site of the building.
Henry Pester fished off Mayville Long Teland sound when a sea gull swooped in. The bird seized a one pound fish, dropped it into Pester’s lap, then flew off, proving the gull’s cheeky display and hunger.
A shipwrecked sailor on the shore declares I am through and washed up after ending a perilous voyage. The remark reflects his sense of exhaustion and disorientation as he inventories his ordeal.
A judge chides a fiancé for secrecy while proposing a practical reveal. The exchange hints at personal plans and the surprise intended for a milestone anniversary type. The conversation underscores tension between secrecy and honesty in romantic gestures.
Clarence Doctor Fixum asserts paw pawa cures dyspepsia while Jack-Paw-pawa supposedly heals most ailments given sufficient money, reflecting a bold but unverified medical claim in a blues era context.
A clipped exchange features a clerk and motorist trading lines about endless billboards. The brief dialogue highlights ongoing frustrations with sign regulation and public displays.
A sanctuary large enough for 40000 argentory birds covers about 400 square miles of woodlands and has been established in Loulatnan.
Fragmentary text discusses people who boast of control yet admit little actual influence. The note centers on virtue and restraint, highlighting a contrast between claimed self mastery and limited practical power within relationships. The piece uses terse, aphoristic phrasing.
A fragment reflects on Dries Trew and the concept of a center of dreams where emotions like hate or love reside. The line hints at a contrast between grand and humble spaces shaping inner life. The source presents a literary, reflective tone without a clear narrative.
The article argues history serves to give value to the present hour and defines history as a duty guiding action, referencing Morgan as a model. It emphasizes applying historical lessons to current civic and personal responsibilities.
A marginal, fragmented quotation reflects on weariness and thought. It mentions those who brood on abstract ideas, contrasting with those who never think or have ceased to brood. The text attributes the idea to William Floslttt, though the fragment is garbled.
Ocean water contains 4 to 6 percent salt while the Dead Sea measures about 23 to 25 percent salt, highlighting its unusually high salinity and distinct mineral content.
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