Wealth in Ships Lies on Erie Bed
Wealth in ships sits on the bottom of Lake Erie, not gold but cash, whisky, locomotives, and more. The Erie wreck tells of 1841 disaster, immigrant losses, and failed salvage, with other famed sunken cargos near Dunkirk, Buffalo, and Put-In-Bay. Whisky and rumrunning riches remain, recovered cases by divers and a Toledo yachtsman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Loraine
Ohio
Bilch
Lake Eerie
Great Lakes
T. J. Titus
Buffalo
Chicago
Dunkirk
N. Y
Richmond
Walnut Creek
Point Pelee
Ont
Kent
Cleveland
Detroit
Clarion
Atlantic
Long Point
Lake Erie
Lake Erie Islands
Put-In-Bay
Admiral Perry
Coast Guard
Edward A. Nagel
Toledo
Plane crash at swimming hole kills boy near Greensburg
In Greensburg area seven miles southwest, an airplane with two men crashed into a swimming hole as controls failed. Peter Kodylak, 13, of Greensburg, was crushed to death. Joseph Voyers, 15, of Armbrust, suffered a concussion. Pilot David Patterson, of Greensburg, escaped unharmed. Student pilot Nicholas Plevin, of Monongahela River Lock No 4, had a bruised knee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
Peter Kodylak
Joseph Voyers
Armbrust
David Patterson
Nicholas Plevin
Monongahela River Lock No. 4
Caveman Han sen Lives Decade in Burrow in Warehouse
Modesto California police evicted Hans Hansen 77 from an underground burrow he had dug under a warehouse floor for ten years. He lived there since 1939, cooking, sleeping, reading, and storing a few groceries in the tin floored space until his accidental floor rap led employers to discover his mole like residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Modesto
Calif
Hans Hansen
Hansen
Rail Engineer Furlong Retires After 51 Years Service
James Furlong dean of Nickel Plate railroad engineers retires after nearly five decades on the rails with estimated mileage of about 2,000,000 miles equal to more than four trips to the moon and back based on the 238,857 mile lunar distance. He spent his career in Bellevue Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moon Bellevue
Ghio
James Furlong
Nickel Plate Railroad
Moon
Furlong
Farmers and livestock outlook crops and notes
Agricultural notes discuss alfalfa as poultry feed substitute and vinegar to remove water ring stains, water consumption impacts feed efficiency, and limited horse exports. Iowa corn gains from potash, Bangs disease testing progress, frozen eggs risks, ewe undernourishment prevention, price trends for cattle hogs lambs, Timothy and sweet clover germination, and family notices from Elgin area.
Review of 1939 in The Echo Headlines
Review of the year’s items from The Echo Headlines includes dead, marriages, school events, church anniversaries, road work, and community notes across Elgin and surrounding areas. Names such as John T. Anderson, Eli Habeger, Mae Bopp, Samuel Mosby, D. E. Tinker, Karl Miller, and Owen families recur amid civic, religious, and social events through January to November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Anderson
Sweden
Jacob Yearous
Eli Habeger
Mae Bopp
Samuel Mosby
Baptist Church
Syria
K. Heck
Iowa Academy of Science
D. E. Tinker
G. Frieden
C. B. Schori
Legion Auxiliary
Elgin-Brainard Road
Earl Kiple
Fayette Co. Legion
Esley Monnahan
Creamery
Elgin
Ben Schneider
Tinker
Karl Miller
Miller Family Group
Clermont Park
Chicago
Walter Bovis
Habegers
Schori House
Postoffice
Moshy and
Wolf
Henry Christianson
Blockhus
G. H. Falks
Canning
Lehman
Max Thoma
Daline Shaffer
Stave-Knudison
Coffee Cup
Drive safely in 1949 new year safety pledge
Fred W Braun urges drivers to value minutes of life over risky saves on the road. He notes 17,000,000 minutes remain in a 35 year life and cautions against reckless acts to shave seconds. He predicts possible 1939 safety trends and advocates a safe day every day.
Postville visitor passes weekend with local residents
Francis Kneeland of Postville visited Friday afternoon through Sunday at Paul Waters home with Marie Heston who has moved from South Gate California to 1716 South Bonnie Brae Los Angeles. Mrs Frank Greenley traveled to Clermont last Thursday to care for her daughter in law Mrs HB Greenley who is ill and bed ridden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Kneeland
Postville
Paul Waters
Iowa
Harvey W. Kruse
Bob
Jon
Park Ridge, Ill
O. J. Olson
Farmersburg
Francis Kneeland
Marie Heston
South Gate
Calif
Bonnie Brae
Los Angeles
Echo
Aitason Dick
C. J. Olson
Frank Greenley
Clermont
H.B. Greenley
Plowing in Minnesota In December
Milaca, Minn, Peace, Minn resident Floyd Hubers discing on his farm near Peace on December 12 shows an unusually late plowing season with no frost and the first such late fall plowing in 16 years. The 1923 fall is noted as warm and dry with December temperatures around 60 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milaca
Minn
A.R. Craven
Floyd Hubers
of Peace
Peace
Minnesota
Grace and Beryl Confront A Kiss Misstep
In a fragmentary exchange Grace tells Beryl that he does not know how to kiss. Beryl confirms the accusation, noting Grace’s claim that he lacks kissing skill. The overheard line hints at romantic tension and a potential misunderstanding among the characters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace
Beryl
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Center Street
Geo. Schrampfer
A. L. Pringle
East Broadway
Sedalia
Timothy
Dena Dummermuth
Elmer Frieden
Albert Butikofer
Poland
Leo Rothlisberger
Meadows
Cornelius Reierson
Elgin Echo
Keith
Waters
the Echo
Elmer Pinney
West Elgin
O'Neill Drug Co
E. E Warnke
Hotel Monona
Monona
Allen Habeger
Gene
Carmen Swenson
Europe
Towa
Iowa State College Extension
Lowa
Paul Liddle
van Cleve
K. E. Mark
Harry Nicklaus
Theodore Aurelius
West Union
Frompt
Gilma Olson
Pennsylvania
Olaf, Berg
Goodrich Produce
Kenneth Kjosa
Herman Scheels
Lena Hunsberger
Bennett House
Walter
Kohls
Spahr
REA
Russell Kohler
Jack Frost
Arthur Chapman
Wolfheads Community Llub
Fred Hanson
Capper
Arthur Stoeler
Elling Houg
Lofstuen
John Grimm
Nicklaus
Louis Lehman
Luana
Ern Harton
Elmer Nelson
C. J. Harrington
Jacob Kurth
Falk
K Knudtson
Hedemann
George Schrampfers
Peter Olin
Creamery Hag
Falth
NYA
Otis Torkelson
Gene Habeger
Arthur
Fred W, Braun
Farmer’s Cars
Am Iowa
R. P. Strauch, Elgin, Ag’t
Employer’s Mutual Casualty Co
Towa’s Largest Casualty Co
McCormick-Deering
Torkelson Bros
Elgin, Iowa
I. H. C. Farm Implements & Repairs
Mike
Maggie
Begorra
Martin-Senour
Schori & Kuster Lbr. CO
Elgin Farmers Coop
Max Medberry, Mer
Roy Knight
Acst
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