Want Ad Rates and Misc Classifieds
Classified notes on ad rates, club offers, and small ads from the Echo Office. Listings include printing, paper, and lumber items with prices, plus salesmen wanted and local supply notices. Names include H. H. Gilbertson and Gus Gunderson in Elgin Iowa, with Fayette County references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo and Enterprise
Ithe
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald
Ile Winaing
Timothy
Clever
HH. Gilbertson
Elgin
Elgin Council Proceedings February 5 1934 Minutes Adopted
Elgin Iowa town council met in regular session at town hall with all members present. Minutes of prior meetings read and approved. finance committee audited and allowed numerous bills including pumping, telephony, lumber, coal, gravel hauling, food supplies, lighting, street work, and janitorial costs. A motion fixed the 1934 poll tax at 3.00. Meeting adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Iowa
T. W. Dean
N. W. Bell Tel, Co
Elgin Furniture
Elgin Echo
J. Harrington
CWA
Anna Schupbach
Hunsberger
Ern Holzer
Elgin Home Bakery
Max Thoma
Central States Power & Light Corp
John Falb
Philip Moser
Falb
Schori & Kuster Lbr. Co
Will Christ
C. J. Harrington
Letter from Fred Biermann on farm policy and politics
In a continued column Biermann discusses job requests for Washington positions, farm politics, and agriculture hearings. He notes 2000 applications to Iowa congressmen, explains patronage pains, and urges farmers to consider foreign markets to restore prosperity. He cites 1933 to 1939 meat production and tariff effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Washington
Committee On Agriculture
Wilson
The
Wilson Packing Co
Department of Agriculture
America
United States
Fred Biermann
Oak Grove Adopts Family Visits and Neighboring Guests
Oak Grove residents report a weekend of visiting across Monona, Fowler, and Fayette as families including the Boyles, Howards, Wilsons, and Kohls hosted relatives and friends. Eldred Patterson arrived from Colorado with goods, plans to settle here with his daughter Hazel while Mr Patterson returned to Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Boyle
George Baldwin
Mlyria
Harry Gilson
Donald Gilson
Elgin
Jud Conner
Floyd Patterson
Volga
Albert Dummermuth
John Howard
Warren Joyce
Clermont
John Haldwin
Clara Mae
Roy Leuchtenmach
Henry Holzer
Howard’ Medberry
Tommy Howard
Karl Bennett
Dau‘ghters
Lansing
Edwin Bauman
John ‘Luchsinger
Dorothy Warren
George Gilson
Florence
Clarence Thoman
Henry Miller
D. C. Dean
June Kerr
John Steffens
West Union
Enos Howard
Donald Jensen
Melbert
Ross Robertson
Williams
Iowa
Ed Boyle
John Luchsinger
Lyle Wilson
Rob. Wilson
Harold Strong
Clyde King
Vo+ga City
Ed Rogers
Clara Holzer
Hermen Peterman
Jake Hoover
Maynard
Henry Bartel
Bert Allen
Sig Hope
Homer Hill
Ralph Shaffer
Wardena
Wm. Kerr
John Nydegger
Donald Dean
Louis Dennter
Will Hoover
Edith Holzer
Pauline Boleyn
George Howard
Clifton Wilson
Genevieve
Dubuque
Margie Barker
Walter Kohls
Frank Howard
Monona
Johnnie Howard
George Boyle
Chas
Petera
Wm. Barker
Evelyn
Geo. Boyle
Eldred Patterson
Fowler
Colo
Hazel
Patterson
Colorado
Clarence Howard
Richard Whitley
Fayette
C. H. Wilson
Suesta
Silas Wilson
Wm. Kohls
Roy Leuchtenmacher
Wm. Boyle
Industrial uses of air and its elements
The article explains air’s industrial roles with oxygen in oxy acetylene blow pipes, nitrogen converted into plant foods by natural and industrial processes, and argon, nitrogen, and neon used in lamps, rectifiers, and signage for advertising.
When Africans Quarrel Ends with Exchange of Goats
A traditional African dispute ends with goats exchanged to seal peace and the aggressor spitting to avert the evil eye, symbolizing communal rituals used to restore harmony between tribes.
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Africa
Ancient Chemistry Sees Four Elements as Air Water Earth Fire
A historical note outlines ancient chemistry recognizing four elements: air water earth and fire. The text emphasizes the era's belief system and foundational elements shaping early science.
Duty Free Allowance and Gold Purity Explained
The article defines the value of goods a tourist may bring back duty free as one hundred dollars. It explains 14K solid gold as an article composed entirely of gold alloyed with base metal in a ratio of fourteen parts gold to ten parts alloy.
Planet Distances From Sun Listed In Order
A reader note lists planets by their distance from the Sun: Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Dranus Neptune Pluto. The sequence presents eight bodies with Dranus likely a misspelling for Uranus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plansti
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Dranus
Neptune
Pluto
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Want
Rawleigh
Fayette County
F. Zweibohmer
Rawleigh Dealer
New Hampton
H.H. Gilbertson
Town
Echo
Ady. Lifp
Gus Gunderson
Elgi
Echo Office
Council
FRED_BIERMANN
Post Office Department
Oak Grove News
Oscraen
Radioland
Thien
Better Homes & Gardens
Comccall's Magazine
Pathfinder
DiPictorial Review
Hants
Arate Vam
Awerican Poultey
Drat
Country Home
the Farm Journal
Capper's Farmer’ Gantlewomin “Magaziied Stents
Ochold
Gentionen
Somcions
Atreet Orr
Towm and
Trate
Oian State
Ginays
Bell System
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