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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1938
Page
4
A brief column argues Americans underestimate the blessings of free government. It contrasts domestic contentment with denunciations and asks which critics would return to their ancestral lands. The piece emphasizes gratitude for the United States.
The author reflects on pamphlets and books urging government solutions to human ills, noting sincere zealots proposing monetary manipulation or tax system cures. He argues no cure-all exists, yet respects those who advocate reform. He concludes American government is imperfect but superior to other nations and preferable to live in.
Reporter Fred Biermann recalls how house stenographers identify speakers by appearance and words and notes that presiding officers are always from the governing party. He praises fair play and sportsmanship in both Democratic and Republican eras.
The fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30 and ends in the calendar year noted. It was moved from September 30 to June 30 in 1843 to give department heads more time to prepare reports for Congress.
A Indiana polis News writer notes Puritans and Pilgrims avoided extravagance for conscience and economy. Records show settlers supplied with shoes stockings shirts and coats, Massachusetts laws banned silver gold lace silk and ruffs in 1634, and unrest over silk hair styles led to court action. later colonial wardrobes reveal evolving styles among Cavaliers, Puritans, and Quakers with plain long hair versus elaborate courtly wear.
A Chicago Tribune style piece explains the eye as a delicate instrument reliant on the optic nerve retina lens and brain centers for vision. It notes common ailments after age forty farsightedness and warns that dust or foreign bodies can cause infection or pain if not treated promptly.
A list of American colleges and universities from the 17th and 18th centuries with their founding years including Harvard 1638 William and Mary 1693 St John s Md 1698 Yale 1701 Washington Md 1723 Pennsylvania 1740 Moravian 1742 Princeton 1746 Washington and Lee 1748 Columbia 1764 Brown 1764 Rutgers 1766 Dartmouth 1769 Salem N H 1772 Hampden Sydney 1776 Transylvania 1783 Dickinson 1783 Charleston 1785 Georgia 1785 Pittsburgh 1787 Franklin Marshall 1787 North Carolina 1789 Georgetown 1789 Vermont 1791 Williams 1793 Tennessee 1794 Tusculum 1794 Bowdoin 1794 Union NC 1795 Washington Pa 1795.
The toga was worn by Romans of both genders. It consisted of woolen fabric in a circular segment with a chord about three times a wearer's height and a height just under half that length. One end draped over the left shoulder while the rest wrapped around the body in various ways.
A Collier's Weekly writer notes Morel's Gang as the era’s biggest criminal network with over a thousand horse and mule thieves forgers and highwaymen who terrorized the South in the early 1800s. The leaders planned to seize New Orleans when captured.
Scien t School resumes Monday after holiday break as students wrap up the first semester. High school exams completed before vacation. grade students to take exams Thursday and Friday. Second semester starts next week. Basketball games slated Randalia Friday and Alpha next Monday. Junior class play Sound Your Horn set for February 4 at the high school gym. tryouts this week with cast to be announced. Superintendent Roberts attending county superintendents meeting. next schoolmasters meeting in Fayette January 13 with health department speaker. Thanks extended to custodian Lehman for clean, refinished floors and cleaned classrooms. Elimination contest for declamatory entrants will be held soon, followed by home contest.
Martin Petratz of Sumner, manager of Salsbury laboratories sales department, and Miss Genevieve Flateford of New Hampton wed at high noon Tuesday January 4 at the Little Brown Church Wrghus.
The Dubuque marriage license business doubled in 1937 from the prior year, aided by new hygiene laws in Illinois and Wisconsin. Across the nation, 200 violent deaths were reported January first with auto fatalities forming over two thirds of holiday crashes. Illinois led with 33 deaths in Chicago except for one. June saw 166 marriages, while 744 couples wed at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, one less than 1930’s record.
An ad style prompt promotes a Halil Feeder with a boast of big benefits and in stock. The passage also includes scattered dialogue lines about humor, money, marriage, and old times, creating a collage of quirky quotes and references without a single cohesive event.
Robert William Meadows, two, son of Mr and Mrs Earl Meadows of North Wilkesboro NC, claims the destination of being the world’s youngest operator of a four power driven automobile. Robbie is shown above driving the tiny motor car built by his father News Photo Service Exclusive to the Echo in Fayette County.
In Creschard South Dakota consolidated school seven sets of twins are among 220 students. Back row Floyd and Boyd Jones Mavis and Avis Ryman Dorothea and Doris Perry high school Craig and Curtis McKay Robert and James Cunningham Verna and Vernon Connell Shirley and Harley Bardell in the grades.
A startling uncensored photograph shows the machine gunner's pit or blister on the Army's latest four motored Boeing Bomber. The pit is bullet proof and the outer pane can be quickly opened for emergencies. Details are known.
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