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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 09, 1933

Page

3

Clermont People Attend Funeral and Community News

Clermont residents attended numerous events including the funeral of Ole Aants in Ossian and Rev. McCaffery's aunt Nancy McGrath funeral in Latternville. Families shared meals, music by Art Mechelson’s accordion team, Rainbow Girls enjoyed a Fayette county frolic, and Edna Dowd mourns Gilbert Dowd killed in a hit ship by an automobile.

Stanley Allen Clermont Marvin Johnson Mary Malone Geo. Cook Waterloo Art Mechelson Minnesota Meckelson McCaffery Latternville Nancy McGrath Church of the Annunciation Breithbach Beience Columbia College Rainbow Girls Fayette County West Union Amebers Larille Phyllis Lubke Virgil Rolfs Lavanda Carr Marian Halverson Lenore Simpson Rossiter Simpon George Lewis Rounds Edna Dowd Gilbert Dowd Orval Gilbert

Turning in a bulletin on timber cutting in Iowa

The Iowa State Board of Conservation urges county supervisors city officials and welfare agencies to curb promiscuous unsupervised timber cutting. It warns that towns creeks and streams lose their wooded safeguarding and youth playgrounds while game animals and birds lose habitats due to widespread destruction.

Conservation Board Iowa State Board of Conservation County Boards of Supervisors

Red Tail Hawk Meets Its Match in Meadow Duel

Deputy Game Warden V S Bowers of Lime Spring reports a red tail hawk failed to spear a pheasant, circling, perching, and finally retreating after meeting its match. The piece shifts to Iowa bird life value, post office efforts to feed wild birds, and reports on trout streams, ducks, and a Maquoketa fish fry with 600 pounds of walleye.

V. S. Bowers Lime Spring Howard County Fish and Game Department American Game Association United States Post Offici Des Deputien George, Kaufman Lansing F. B. Becker Postville Iowa Lakes Round Lake Spirit Okoboji Swan Lakes Maquoketa Valley Irash Walton League

Weed Burning and Bird Habitat Protection

The Fish and Game Commission urges careful weed burning to protect quail pheasants and nesting grasses along fence lines. It proposes alternate burning, with half the land burned this year and half next year, to prevent wiping out bird habitats while controlling noxious growth.

Fish and Game Commission Commission

Advertising Benefits the Buyer and Seller in Commerce

Advertising supports both sides of a transaction and stretches every penny. The piece urges readers to study ads for news and educational value, noting ads help shared economies and personal budgeting, especially when economic duty requires prudent spending.

Faaper County Farmer Knows Needs Of Quail

W. W. Berry, a farmer near Grinnell, has practiced game management to boost quail on forty acres. He places food patches, reports quail at his barn door during heavy snows, and notes seven visible squirrel nests from his home. Berry protects many wildlife species and notes cooperation from rural mail carriers in winter feeding.

W. W. Berry Grinnell Berry Himelf

Indians and Salt Use in Native Tribes Discussed

The handbook of American Indian customs notes that not all tribes used salt regularly due to procurement difficulty absence of habit repugnance to the mineral or religious reasons. It also states salt exists in vast quantities in the United States and most Indians could obtain it when needed.

Indiana United States

Canal Project Through Isthmus of Panama History

The canal across the Isthmus of Panama has a 406 year history. Balboa and other Spanish explorers proposed it to the Spanish emperor in the early 1500s. Surveys occurred between 1515 and 1525, but steady demand began in the early 1800s with steam navigation.

Canal Long Panamaa Balboa Spain

Cranberries valued for health virtues in traditional lore

The article notes American Indians revered cranberries for life prolonging properties. It contrasts superstition with science, stating cranberries contain vitamins and aid winter diets. Do not boil them too long to preserve benefits.

Castoria Returns to Newspaper Advertising After Decline

The piece notes Castoria and other advertisers quitting newspaper ads amid losses, then resuming advertising as market conditions improve. It cites an Oklahoma publisher and describes a widespread pattern of advertisers dropping ads and later returning to newspapers.

Castoria Oklahoma

Diet and childhood nutrition impact lifelong health

The article notes that childhood food choices shape long term health outcomes and that a balanced diet in youth prevents later adult deficiencies. It highlights that poor early nutrition correlates with adult health issues and stresses the importance of varied, well chosen foods for children.

Fragmentary Note on State Positions and Aesthetic Terms

Disjointed lines mention Nevada and Wyoming, various states, and a discussion of anesthesia terminology and national comparisons. The readable fragments imply a debate or survey of positions with limited context and no clear events or outcomes.

Lost Caste Believed To Create Social Outcast Among Toast Makers

A fragment suggests a "lost caste" theme where an individual named Italn is barred from a group, becoming an outcast. The text hints at social stratification affecting inclusion within a community of toast makers.

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