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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1919
Page
7
Local notices describe a Masquerade Ball at Clergiant Opera House this Friday night with Carpenter's Orchestra and cash prizes. The column items cover community events, school changes, health updates, and local anecdotes from Elgin and nearby towns, highlighting civic updates and social happenings.
The legend tracing the Christmas rose from Italy to England centers on Madelon a flower seller who longs to give but has no flowers. Her tears beckon the guardian angel Gabriel who touches the ground and springs up winter roses that bloom beneath snow. the tale ends with the promise that Christmas roses endure.
A fragmented account recalls the 1841 disappearance of the President, the flat steamer missing after leaving New York. Headlines and rumors spread of ships sighted, Madeiran distress, and a hoax that sparked public fascination in both America and Europe.
Tin and copper are recycled, with determining processes allowing reuse. Bones from meals are collected and sold to glue factories, producing millions of pounds of glue yearly. The text cites waterproof cement as historically problematic, noting Tut todly cement as waterproof.
The text questions who wrote a cynical passage about human nature. Attribution has long puzzled scholars, with claims linked to French figures, but no consensus exists. The debate continues as earlier researchers failed to resolve the authorship.
The text argues that true greatness belongs to those who perform great deeds or teach them or describe them with majesty. It asserts that truly great acts improve life, comfort, and happiness, or pave the way to a better future. It notes that great deeds and their consequences often go hand in hand.
Dr. Cannon a dentist in West Union. Fred Gehring ill and out a few days. Mrs. Max Thoma improving. Stallbaums returned from Indiana where they worked in the Rums¢y factory and attended night school. Iowa Association of Southern California reunion eyed in Lincoln Park Los Angeles with postponement if rain. Forrest Welch praises Red Cross in France and plans renewed Elgin chapter membership. Tom Lewis notes a scarlet tangler in West town and 18 inches of snow in May 1877, history may repeat.
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