16 Feb 1939
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1939
Page
1
An item filed in the Elgin Iowa post office in Fayette County is recorded as second class mail matter for official transmission and archival use.
The Herald-Register explains a billion by imagining Adam counting silver dollars every second non stop from birth to today. It notes the national deficit rising to more than forty such billions over six years and fears continued growth under President Roosevelt.
December liquor business in Iowa totaled 1 502 665 57 dollars, while January fell to 929 558 13 dollars. The piece notes nostalgia for bootleg era prices and remarks the present setup may persist for two years as legislators consider changes.
The House voted yesterday to levy income tax on all federal state and municipal offices and allow states with tax laws to do the same. The editorial argues officials should contribute to government expenses as they are not exempt from salaries.
A Collier's Weekly writer notes that Chinese tradition held a criminal is not truly dead until their name is erased. Each year, names of those executed in the previous year were written on paper and burned in a Peiping temple.
The travel diary entries describe visits to Fatehpur Sikri Akbar’s Tomb Sikandra and the Taj Mahal near Agra. The party tours the Fort Pearl Mosque Hall of Public Audience and Jasmine Tower while noting Akbars religious tolerance and the royal court scenes. They also visit St Johns College for boys and a mission school for outcast children with a rug factory and plans to start soap making.
A youth benefit production directed by Miss Lyons is being organized for roughly a month from now. Also noted are a wolf pelt on display at City Drug Store and local ice-shortage causes from Turkey River flooding. Willie Boyle, 10, operated on for appendicitis in Iowa City, with uncle Ed Boyle nearby.
A small town tale circulates about a farmer and a WPA worker riding along. They encounter a table in the road and a jack-rabbit. The farmer explains the table marks a WPA worker on the way to work, while the worker identifies the rabbit as a farmer heading for a corn hog check.
The text explains that an octopus cannot be killed by severing a tentacle or puncturing the ink sac. It notes a well developed nervous system behind the eyes. The Smithsonian Institution states the most certain methods are spear through an eye or between the eyes, or cutting the body just in front of the tentacles.
A historical note explains that heavyweight irons have little advantage over lightweight ones since pressing mainly relies on moisture evaporation and the motion of the iron rather than weight. The piece emphasizes technique over heft.
Greenley on Monday reports Ned continuing faithful service with few layoffs. Joseph Butler and wife travel to St Paul Minnesota for spring millinery. F R Berg shows a new driving horse praised as a dandy. Bradford the Oliver man conducts business Monday. Melchr Luchsinger hauls lumber for a new barn. The Huebner Gruel wedding near Postville last Thursday weekend included John Falk Flora Boyer Mabel and Alfred Holzer. Winter returns after a warm spell and a snow storm follows. Weibel Bros plan a 22 by 32 addition to the mill to handle growing business. Sam Greenley sustains injuries unloading a tailload of buggies from a car. He is laid up with facial and arm bruises and a forearm bone cracked.
Rasora Are Taxed Bearded Russians under Peter the Great wore metal receipts on their beards to signify that they had paid the beard tax. Beard- lacking receipts were forcibly shaved off by the czar's barbers. In America the tax is on shaving. Every razor blade carries 45 hidden taxes to dull its edge.
The history notes that manual training as a school subject began in Finland in 1858, marking its early adoption in European education. The development reflects the era's push toward practical skills integrated into classroom learning.
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