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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1930
Page
3
A 1930 health feature urges New Year resolve through balanced eating and exercise. It offers winter salad ideas with peas and cheese, spinach and beets, and creative cabbage combos, plus recipes for a sour cream dressing, boiled dressing, and optional cheese additions.
The text notes an estimated 4000 earthquakes annually worldwide with about 2000 in the U S, most feeble or harmless in sparse areas. It also cites New England orchids as among the rarest plants, listing 47 varieties found in 1884 and naming Peramiom menziesii and P hogonia affinis as very rare. It discusses federal state relations, currency, and bank bonds, plus a quotation from John Ruskin on enjoyment.
Long time, efficient spread ing are assured when a MecCor mick Deering manure spreader is used. Spreading costs reduced as the machine’s durability minimizes upkeep and extends investment over years of satisfactory service. Give us a ring and we’ll bring a one hole McCormick Deering Corn Shellers to your farm next time we are out that way. They are handy for shelling seed corn or shelling corn for pigs poultry sheep calves and other stock.
Mrs Ern Meyer and son Led visited Thos Hanson home, Rosa Jacobs of Elgin stayed with Mrs Louisa Butikofer, and many neighbors dropped by homes of Friederich, Pollock, Dennler, Frieden, and Hanson. Several sickness notes and a card party highlight a busy weekend.
A compact note discusses Prone of Commeres Pronea dried plums once broad in use now a favored large reddish variety called prone or prone-plum. It also mentions early alarm clocks likely linked to priesthood use and a Navy resignation stigma. Rhubarb is debated as fruit or vegetable based on culinary use in desserts.
Practical household guidance on dairy handling and bread making, storage safety for canned foods, and damp proofing paints with paraffin in gasoline. Also a local note: H D Yack of Postville spent Sunday with family here.
Elgin high school's current term sets a rare attendance milestone with enrollment up by one and no withdrawals. Examinations are scheduled for Thursday and Friday, the second semester begins January 20, several students return from illness, and the first and second grades teamed up for a Monday afternoon broadcast. The paper notes illnesses, perfect spellings and arithmetic, and upcoming basketball games against Postville and Arlington.
The article argues lime is essential for sweet clover establishment. It recommends surface lime applications, from 2 to 8 tons, using hydrated lime or limestone, especially when rotating the crop across a farm. Even in limestone regions the surface soil may lack lime, so apply before sowing unless local trials show otherwise.
Miss Mabel Popenhagen daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Popenhagen and Millard S Anderson second son of Mr and Mrs A N Anderson were married at 8 oclock last Wednesday Jan 1 by Rev C Krebs at the home of the brides parents the Andersons. The couple are visiting relatives in Elkader and Hawkeye and will reside on a farm with plans undetermined.
A number of people lament difficulty in saving as costs rise. In recent years households bear expenses for telephone, electric lights, radio, automobile, movies, paved roads, electric refrigerator, electric fan, efficiency expert services, magazine peddlers, electric sweepers, and cigar lighters.
A complete Coronado nine tube screen grid radio offers outstanding tone selectivity and volume. Bay price only by comparison at 114.96 dollars, available at Gamble Stores Gelwain Iowa. Read the Want Ad column for bar gains.
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