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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1938
Page
1
Printed notice states the item is entered in the Elgin Iowa post office in Fayette County as second class mail matter. The official designation affects handling and delivery status under postal regulations.
Advertisement text notes rates with cents and time markers, showing pricing terms and percentages. The readable fragment lists values such as 10 cents and 25 cents plus a time reference, implying a pricing schedule for ads. This brief item appears as an advertising rate stub in a periodical.
Early treatment prevents most outbreaks of syphilis as the disease progresses through latent, cardiovascular, and nervous system stages. The piece warns that untreated infection can silently advance for years, causing heart failure, organ damage, or mental decline, with thousands of deaths annually in the United States. It urges inquiries to the Iowa State Dept. of Health.
Nashua Reporter notes the best measure of character is a man’s willingness to settle debts. One may lead prayers teach Sunday school and attend services yet fail to honor obligations, revealing hypocrisy to those who know him.
A Coler’s Weekly report states that taste varies more than any sense with taste altered by phenyl-thio-car. Some individuals find flavors tasteless while others perceive bitterness sourness sweetness or saltiness in the same substance.
John Pulfer of German Bottom was badly hurt Monday when a falling tree limb broke his left leg and left arm while he worked in the woods. Numerous local items follow, including birthday observances, moves to Elgin, a baptismal certificate from 1806, and a restaurant deal as Rudy Jacquitz buys the former F. M. Smith business.
Elgin Iowa council meets in regular session at town hall with all members present. Minutes approved. Bills approved unanimously including salaries for George Boyle and T W Dean, printing, supplies, gas, and street light costs from Central States Power and Light and related firms. Clerk C J Harrington records adjournment.
Grand Meadow area residents share New Year visits and greetings with neighbors and relatives. Earl Paine returns to Payette after vacation with Willard Martin home. Several families, including Lyngassa Osmundson Reinhart Erickson Olson and others, hosted or visited during New Year celebrations. A Ladies League meeting at East church featured a program, business session and officer elections followed by lunch.
Dewitt Emery of Akron Ohio argues that organized small business men can gain relief by influencing policy before 1940. He notes burdens from social security, insurance, taxes, material costs and regulations, urging their participation to protect their welfare.
The speaker notes that condemning a town as dying is common but unhelpful. He argues most critics offer little in the way of concrete plans and urges practical steps to revitalize the community rather than mere talk.
Advertisement for sale at the Echo office urging readers to turn to Berg's ad. The note references sale bills available at the Echo office.
Internal Revenue figures indicate the six cent tax collected last year on every pack of cigarettes shaved about 570 million dollars from American pockets in 1987. The average smoker contributing six cents a day paid 21.90 yearly in this indirect tax hidden in cigarette prices.
A twelve inch pilot-fish of the mackerel family travels with ships and accompanies sharks, guiding them to food. It swims ahead to catch fragments shed by the shark and to gain protection from predators.
Paris dispatch reports the Obelisk of Luxor once served as a sundial in Thebes three centuries before Christ and was a valued ornament in Ramses II’s court. After Napoleon’s Egypt invasion it was moved to Paris and has stood in Place de la Concorde for over a century.
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