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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1928
Page
3
All Towns Have Ups and Downs urges residents to praise their town to attract buyers and newcomers. It notes some folks move away while others arrive, and temporary setbacks can yield faster future growth in a community. See Garden of Allah at Elgin Opera House Sunday and Monday February 12 and 13 for sensational Sahara tale.
R. P. Strauch publisher and Ruth Skarshkeug local editor are noted for Clermont Iowa under second class mail matter status in Ta yette County.
In a Parkersburg Eclipse letter the writer attacks local schools for selling subscriptions to magazines like Country Gentleman. He argues schools are used as a peddler for distant publishers, calling the practice undignified and urging local merchants to run school fundraisers instead.
A column mocks modern marriage trends with a thrift minded Mrs. Hall denouncing synthetic matrimony and urging traditional unions. Nearby, Des Moines river fishers report 55 000 pounds of soft fish mainly buffalo hauled from ice by a quarter mile seine, while Walnut logs worth 20 000 for company lumber move from local growers to Chicago for veneer and furniture making with high payments to landowners and large logs up to 4 feet in diameter and 20 feet long.
Walter Randell Storey presents a history of the Colonial clock in Arts and Decoration Magazine. The piece notes cheerful, quaint furniture value, varying placements on walls or shelves, and the clock’s evolving form from early dome tops and bat motifs to dial arches. It traces 17th and 18th century styles and features, including calendar indications by some clocks, highlighting their enduring family role and charm.
A 19th century legal note discusses evolving views on domestic violence amid a French case where a husband beating his wife was not considered grounds for divorce because the wife provoked the incident. The report contrasts Ye code of chivalry with judicial standards in France, noting differing outcomes.
Professor Wyon mocks the medicine habit calling it superstition and medieval fetish worship. The piece notes widespread faith in doctors remedies and cites Suny husband who advised his wife to discard remedies while she used vindictoe and later swallowed nauseous draughts himself.
Mrs. E W Apeplman arrived Wednesday for a few days visit and will split time between Lawler and her home here. Chick hatcheries have grown rapidly in the past decade with parcels replacing earlier objections to shipping baby chicks by mail. Poultry men at Iowa State College note big gains in the last five or six years. Henry Erickson, visiting Postville, recalled Bert Tuttle’s 43 years in the local printing trade and town, praising his long tenure and enjoyment of the work.
Richard Grant White discusses Shakespeare drawing on dead life from time to create living, individual figures. He credits Shakespeare with breathing flesh into skeletons from history and supplying European kings as subjects for portraiture.
An Inverness report refutes the belief that a Scotsman’s heart is moved by wealth at a wishing well. Observers note many coins and trinkets found at its bottom this year, suggesting such folk magic fails to influence fortunes. The piece cites New York Virnes on the myth’s denial.
Xenophon a historian and soldier from 430 to 355 BCE led 19,005 Greek mercenaries under Cyrus in Persia. The march through hostile Armenia to the Black Sea was a legendary retreat later recounted in his writings.
A mixed item lists services from Beamer's Tire Shop in West Union Iowa offering car washing with air and water, top building and repairing, glass cutting, tire and boot vulcanizing, radiator repair. Local notes mention residents visiting and weather, plus a historical snippet on the Gatling gun patent in 1862 and Civil War usage.
A column attributed to Editor Rann argues husbands bear burdens of supporting wives while women demand luxury. It laments changes in dress habits and compares domestic roles, citing a Manchester Press quote and a verse about a boy on a burning deck. Also notes Leipzig letter boxes for stamps with automatic canceling.
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