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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1934
Page
4
The notice details ad rates up to 25 words at 25 cents per insertion, with higher word counts costing one cent per word per insertion. Additional handling charges apply for replies and monthly billing. It lists items for sale, club offers, employment ads for Rawleigh routes, and typewriter paper for sale with limited supply at Echo office.
Grand Meadow News reports numerous social calls and visits across Clermont Highland and nearby towns. Families including Buraas Warner Nelson Roundd Johnson Wharram Reinhart Holm and Olson were hosted at several homes while Lillian Halverson aided with housework and Geraldine Olgon remains ill.
In this section the writer critiques extravagances in naval spending, questions the rush to military preparedness, and rails against public indifference to liberty. He notes curved streets in Washington and recalls a snowy Iowa experience, reflecting on beauty and civic planning amid national policy debates.
A humorous quoted exchange lists whimsical food names used by a shopper, followed by news that an agricultural travel course will study crops and live stock across about 18 states for Iowa State College students. The program runs July 5 to August 5, with thirty students enrolled, traveling by bus and camping.
Several brief items cover Social visits and illnesses, a Elkader store partnership dissolution, subscription reminders, and local opinions on government. Notable items include Mrs. Mel Kohler’s rheumatism week at home, Elmer Hoag’s attendance at a Clermont home event, the Miller family weekend in Buffalo Center, Burlingame and Losch dissolving their Elkader store partnership, and local business and social notes across Maynard Manchester and Fayette areas.
Maxine Joan Jensen celebrated her second birthday on the same day as President Roosevelt’s birth anniversary. She sent a birthday greeting and received a letter from the president’s private secretary in Washington. Maxine is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jensen of Gunder.
Notice in Fayette County District Court states that on February 1 1924 an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of George W Baldwin of the county will be heard in West Union for probate. Temperature guidance for dairy cattle notes ventilation humidity and effects of rapid temperature changes on feed use and cow physiology.
Districts No. 1 and No. 7 plan a joint program and social at Belle Creek school on Wednesday evening February 21 at 8 o'clock with Ada Lindroth and Elizabeth Jacobs as teachers. The winter decline in farm wages this season was less than usual.
The text discusses lowering the herr flock through repeated calling and notes on geldings tied to interest in selling colts. It mentions Alona arg on average higher than five years ago and suggests fertile soil farmers could profit by feeding and renting to government for sweet clover seed harvesting with a 1886 context.
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