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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1936
Page
1
Kathryn Strauch, local editor, is entered in the Elgin post office records as a second class mail matter in Iowa.
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A Southridge Evening News editorial notes a severe mismatch between education and job needs. It cites 10 000 600 employables aged 18 to 29 with no prior work, and urges manufacturers and educators to revive apprenticeship programs and reassess vocational training to address changing industrial demands. It warns reforms take time and must correct long standing errors.
A letter to stockholders from a major American retailer’s president notes a $1 dividend per share while taxes hit $1.12 per share, warning that heavier taxation will lift prices and affect all businesses. An exchange calls the dollar both desired and elusive, while soybeans are marketed much earlier this year than last.
Mrs Kid Walters returned to Willow River Minn after visiting relatives in our city. J A Grover and wife marked sixty years of marriage in the Buckeye state. Otis Harrington and Miss May Prior wed at Waukon. Mary Monnahan aids ill son Mike at home. Days lengthen as spring nears. Trypha Lewis and Alma Berger travel to Fayette for U S U Mx musical instruction. Mr and Mrs Beshey of Hungary visit relatives. T W Dean Ben Schari Mary Skarshaug and Louise Schari and Louise Holzer attend Julius Bauder funeral in Decorah. G Theo Schmid bade farewell in Clemont as relatives head to California. Al and Geo Schori go to Chicago with stock. Chas Halsten son entertains Sunday school class Thursday. Gus Boyer family visit relatives in the country. Roosevelt announces daughter’s wedding on Feb 17 in the White House east room. Kansas Missouri Nebraska earthquake Sunday. Assessors meet at Elkader to gather county supplies. These meetings are usually attended 100 per cent.
County officials face growing duty of managing Real estate acquired at tax sales amid calls for an overseer of public property. Noted concerns cite hundreds of properties in Oelwein and other counties needing maintenance, insurance, tenants, and rent collection until disposal.
Babson the noted statistician predicts Roosevelt will be reelected. He foresees a 10 to 25 percent business rise with a general outlook of recovery and prosperity by 1937. Highlights cover a boom in building, more labor demand, a bull stock market, higher farm income, active real estate rents, a two billion dollar deficit, high grade bonds, strong retail sales, and mild living cost increases.
W J Rogers abstract office reports transfers. Christine Schori and Salena Nelson to Homer A and Mabel A Dil widow for $1400, Lutra in SW SW 14 947 and Lb 1 2 Conner's Add to Lutra Elgin, Henry W Hintzinger to Venje Investment Co widow for $1.00 S 18 19 20 B24 Clermont. Caroline Wenger to Elgin Savings Bank widow for $1.00 W1 2 SE 12 NE NE NW NE 18 93 7.
Want Ads note a coming shortage of petroleum products may force higher imports and prices within five to eight years. The Chemical Foundation of New York cites this outlook while the Manchester Press says oil field exhaustion is not expected for fifty years. Proven reserves total 19 billion barrels, but future demand remains uncertain.
H J Doscher West Union farm implement dealer expands by purchasing a similar business at Hawk Eye. The transfer broadens operations and ties the two towns through a common dealer network.
An experiment will test a new perennial wheat variety near Stratford Texas. The crop is expected to grow for six years without replanting, potentially reducing reseeding needs and field work for farmers.
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