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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1935
Page
6
Elgin residents cordially hosted relatives and friends during the holidays with visits to West Union Clermont Postville and Ames. Several dinners occasions and musical events fill the week. A full length talking picture Sky Scrapers heads Elgin opera house on Thursdays with 10 and 16 cent admission.
St Pauls M E Church led by Minister J J Snyder holds morning worship at 10 o clock and Sunday school at 11 o clock. Choir practice is scheduled for Thursday evenings with Mrs Louis Klingman as pianist.
Grace Foxwell leads piano during Sunday school at 10 16. Church worship at 21 16. The yearly trustee meeting and election will follow the supper on Friday evening.
Elgin Baptist Church schedules covenant meeting Thursday January 8 at 8 p m. Choir at 9 p m. Communion Sunday January 6 at 10 a m. Sunday school at 11 a m. Dinner at 12 15 p m. Serving committee listed. Juniors meet 12 45 p m. Committee meets 1 10 p m. English service 2 p m followed by church meeting. Prayer Thursday January 10 at 8 p m. All welcome.
An advertisement urges property owners with four business buildings to join Mill Owners Mutual Fire Insurance Co. to cut annual fire protection costs by at least a fourth, contingent on proper risk classification and cooperation in eliminating hazards. The piece also mentions agent R P Strauch and notes several local items from Elkader Register.
Castel Sant Angelo in Rome, one of the world’s oldest structures, has served as fortress palace prison and now museum. Begun as Hadrian’s mausoleum in 130s AD it has endured sieges and restorations and remains a symbol of Rome’s evolving history.
Havant parchment, famed for a thousand years near Portsmouth, is produced from sheep skins in Attle stream water said to impart unique properties. Process includes soaking in the chalky stream, fleshing, splitting skins, and smoothing with pumice, yielding white smooth parchment for libraries and museums.
The article explains frog fishing as a quirky sport using a long cane pole and a short stout ling. A treble lure wrapped in red flannel dangles to entice a big frog, which lunges swiftly at the bait and may strike on the first lunge.
Fossils at the Meld Museum in Chicago show a dinosaur skeleton with a healed tail bone and several joined tail vertebrae. Curator notes broken and ulcerated teeth are common in ancient specimens, indicating injuries healed during life millions of years ago.
Pathfinder Magazine notes that before the Civil War only a few hundred free Black people were actual slave owners, while many others bought relatives to release them from slavery, making them technically slave owners in a strict sense.
The word potlatch comes from a Chinook term meaning gift. A potlatch is a feast where the host distributes most of his goods to his tribe as proof of generosity. The custom was widespread from Puget Sound to southern Alaska but faced disturbances and bans by the Canadian government.
Investigators who studied apes and monkeys claim a language of their own with 82 identified chimpanzee sounds. Similar work on cats and poultry shows 15 words for cats and 12 used by hens.
The Babel Mandeb or Gates of Sorrow is a strait linking the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea, dividing southeastern Arabia from Africa. Near its African shore lie the Eight Brothers volcanic islets, and the strait is noted for its dangers to small vessels.
In Hungary goulash is a meat stew of beef or veal with potatoes and onions in paprika sauce. It remains common in restaurants and is sold in canned form for home use.
Some believe church steeples descend from the tower of Babel, an ancient idea to approach heaven in worship through architecture.
The wettest day on record occurred June 14, 1913, in Bagino Philipine Islands with 46 inches of rain, marking a historic weather extreme.
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