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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1922
Page
7
The Elgin Echo prints every Thursday with notes on mailing details. It lists advertising formats including back insertions display ads and legal notices. Subscription costs are $2.00 for one year and $1.00 for six months.
Ben Denner is ill and a home sewing job is sought. Mr and Mrs Franc DeSart mark a wedding anniversary. Reports from Weat Union detail visits, arrivals, and health updates, including Rev. Gilbert Chalke performing a marriage and local commerce notes. Town gossip references ice harvest, Tantac endorsements, and local food staples.
A University of Pennsylvania Museum bulletin describes gender oppression in Yorubaland where women are labeled inferior and treated as chattel. It details rituals around male spirits and the Egon bogey, and notes severe punishments for women who resist or voice doubts, while men enforce control through fear and ritual authority.
A collection of quips and anecdotes urging kindness, humor, and discretion. It cites Montreal Family Herald and London Answers on fleas aiding sewage cleanup, noting practical curiosities and the value of small good deeds in everyday interactions.
A fragment explains the phrase in the jug as borrowed from Scots. It notes the term does not refer to two vessels but to a metaphor for jail. It traces possible links to the word Joug a head yoke and to a roundhouse called the stone jug in a market square.
Excavations at Knossos Paetos and other Crete sites show an early European civilization. The giant Knossos palace reveals urban planning and drainage systems. archaeologists describe daily life, games, art, religion, and dress, while language remains elusive.
A varied page notes patent remedies for constipation and a federal tax lien against George Junk of Guttenberg. It also recounts local business, housing, and personal notices, including Longview and Waukon community items, an explosion near Alta Vista, and a silo accident that claimed life.
A catalog style list shows discounts on glassware pewterware and kitchen items. Milk pitchers pie tins and fancy salad bowls are offered at 19 cents to 49 cents with notable markdowns on all glassware oven ware and hand painted ware. Includes butter dishes lamp shades and meat platters among others.
Local ad lists enamel ware items including 12 quart water pail 6 quart kettle two double boilers and heavy white triple coated pieces all priced at 1.49 each to attract shoppers with a mix of cookware names and a single sale price.
A local advertisement lists aluminum items with prices. Two quart water pails cost 2 dollars each. Four quart kettles with lids 1.49. Six gallon kettles with lids 1.99. Five quart tea kettles 1.99. Two and a half quart double boilers 1.69 and 1.99.
A cluttered advertisement lists prices for household items including table oil cloth 29¢ per yard, press snaps 19¢ per card, dish pans 39¢, toilet paper 19¢ for 8 rolls, mops 1.29 to 1.59, towels 19¢, milk pails 79¢, ladies fleece lined mittens 90¢, men and boys jersey mittens 19¢ and 9¢, hand soap, galvanized pails 89¢, and overalls 1.29 to 1.39, reflecting a mid century retail catalog style.
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