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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1937
Page
4
Rates announced for want ads include up to 25 words at 25 cents per insertion. Over 26 words priced at 1 cent per word. Optional extra handling 10 cents per week if replies go to the office. Cash with order. Telephones accepted but payment due before month end. if billed, 10 cents per line.
Senate approves a farm to market road plan funding via counties and motor taxes. Bills seek to limit landlord liens to crops and livestock, delay taxes, and require payroll disclosure. Publishers may accept liquor ads. unemployment act expansion debated. Homestead Act faces revisions. a gross income tax bill proposes 1 percent on all income to replace property tax.
The record asserts mahogany appeared in use long before Chippendale, with mentions in letters from Cortez to Phillip II as early as 1520, challenging common opinion about its later adoption.
The term laconic derives from the Spartans who spoke briefly, a style linked to Laconia. A Spartan citizen was called a Lacon from Laconia the region they inhabited.
Mrs. John F. Berndt recovered from a weeklong illness by the latter part of last week. Albert Dummermuth and family of Fayette visited Jud Conner's home. Helen Wegner traveled to her home near Postville and back for a visit with parents. Howard Shaffer Creighton Conner and Frank Pinney attended county basketball tournaments in Delwe. Helene Scholz and Harriet Peterson visited Waterloo relatives and friends.
Announcement that the 1937 real estate list is being revised. A M Weibel, Realtor, warns buyers and sellers to see as part of services offered. License number 2087.
A fragment states Mohammed taught followers that there is one God and that Moses and Jesus were true prophets, with Mohammed as the latest and fullest truth. It notes Heiraic as a possible source or spelling variation.
The typewriter's origin traces to an English patent filed in London in 1714. A practical early model was later built by an American circa 1867, marking a key step in typewriter development.
The caracul lynx is native to much of Africa and southwest Asia. Its principal difference from the American lynx lies in its long tail.
Hi Ha the sage of Chinatown cautions that learning the truth requires great patience and may incur dangerous enmity from those who wish to keep it hidden. The remark frames truth as a perilous pursuit protected by discretion and resolve.
The ancient Greeks and Chinese alike viewed jade as a universal charm aiding kidney health. This cross cultural belief links jade to healing power and protective health properties across civilizations.
The piece reports smaller fruit supplies and higher prices, 4000+ attendance at 1986 machinery demonstrations, and salt poisoning risk. It notes 1936 farm tax survey findings, Thatcher wheat promising in Iowa, Tojap hybrid popcorn outyielding Japanese Hulless, and lime use timing for legume crops. It discusses soil erosion losses in Iowa, barberry eradication results, WPA land work, and horse conditioning for spring, plus a large 1936 test demonstration program across 17 counties with TVA fertilizer support to assess phosphate use effects on livestock land farming and income.
The ape stands for uncleanness malice and cunning the ass for stupidity bulldog for pertinacity cat for deceit camel for submission dog for fidelity elephant for sagacity and ponderosity lamb for innocence rabbit for fecundity sheep for timidity tiger for ferocity horse for speed and grace Leonard for sin monkey for tricks.
Navajo weavers employ more than 30 dyes created from native vegetable materials and value these colors over commercial ones. Wool is washed with soap made from Yucca root, known locally as soap weed in the Southwest.
Storms blow over as Uncle Eben compares predictions to sunshine. He notes when rain is forecast there is no need to hoist an umbrella to shield from the sun still shining. The rustic saying reflects practical weather wisdom in the countryside.
The first Harvard University graduating class in 1642 consisted of nine men.
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