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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1928
Page
3
An advertisement promotes a combined one year subscription to Echo-Enterprise and Dubuque Telegraph Herald for five dollars, saving a dollar. It also offers fifty cents off Chicago Tribune via the home paper, highlighting prompt service on orders.
An old trade card advertises washing and repairing services including tire and boot vulcanizing, radiator repair and general building work. Located in West Union Iowa, the card mentions Beamer's Tire Shop and asks if your subscription tag reads 30887.
R. P. Strauch publisher and Ruth Skarshoug local editor are listed in a Clermont Iowa notice indicating second class mail designation for the publication in Wyyette County.
A fire at Jelke & Jelke’s Farmersburg general store was spotted around 11 PM Saturday, heavily damaging goods and shelving. Firefighters and a chemical engine contained the blaze quickly, preventing spread to nearby structures. damages are estimated between 38,000 and 9,000 dollars, partly insured.
Jerome P. Fleishman reflects on the challenges of apology, self restraint, and steady self improvement. The piece lists duties like admitting error, enduring success, forgiving, and recognizing the silver lining as essential to progress and payoffs in the end.
Mrs Albert Frieden aged 30 of Nowata Oklahoma died Sunday morning February 19 at her home. She was daughter in law of Mrs Arnold Bauman of Elgin and had relatives here, visiting twice since marriage. She leaves husband and two children a son four and a daughter eight. Funeral held Tuesday at Nowata per Oklahoma radio announcement.
The First National of Davenport is described as the oldest national bank in the United States, organized after the National Bank Act near the Civil War end. It received the first charter under Treasury Secretary William P. Fessenden, and through acquisitions grew into a leading financial institution, notable as the first charter issued to a state west of the Mississippi.
Mrs Marie Hilgartner, daughter of renowned singer Madame Schumann Heink, becomes Mrs Charles M Fox of San Diego after a San Francisco ceremony in the presence of the famous diva. Telegraph Herald notes the event and markets it with a want ad.
A survey of 239 dairy farms in northeastern Iowa finds cows that freshen in September October and November yield higher profits. Reasons include peak winter production with generous feeding, higher butterfat prices in winter, and labor shifting to dairy herds for better care during the season.
Cedar Rapids city council passed a resolution forbidding the distribution of certain eye tablets after a severe illness and several analyses found the pills contained acetanilid a heart depressant. Police could not locate distributors and samples were mailed in boxes.
Albert Rhoades, a farmer near Oxford Junction, reports his dog developed hydrophobia after slaughtering stock. The dog was shot, and several animals including a sheep and another dog died from hydrophobia. The sheep’s head sent to Ames confirmed hydrophobia. Pasteur treatment begun for Rhoades, his wife, and daughter.
S. T. Kaufman, pilot on the trans continental air mail route, made a forced landing in a Grinnell area corn field four miles south on February 6 afternoon. Rain and a frigid air current caused about a thousand pounds of ice to cling to the aircraft, adding to the mail load. The cargo included 31 pouches of mail, eight of which carried only registered mail, totaling 1000 pounds. The mail was dispatched east from Grinnell by train.
Quote captures a fatherly view on flappers as women who do what an old maid would wish to do but cannot endure. The exchange hints at generational attitudes toward social change and gender roles.
Mrs Louise Miller and her two daughters Mia and Mary Haas of Clermont were guests Sunday at the Geo Falb home, a local social item. The note also teases about money and subscriptions in a light, humorous aside.
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