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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1925
Page
7
Elgin Echo outlines pricing for local columns with half cent per line and one cent per word for classified ads. It notes ads run until discontinued and lists admission charges for events, cards of thanks, and resolutions of respect at regular rates.
Local notes record visits and illnesses, farm fires, fox hunting talk, and household tips. Residents include Mrs M A Nicklaus, Anza Falk, W W Davidson, Minerva Weibel, Hazel Gehring, Will Kohler, Mrs Jack Allen, John Falk, Roy Kimball, and Arnold Bauman with trips to Waterloo, Tulsa, Nevada, and Guttenberg. A dairy feed ad from Weibel Mill Co promotes 2.40 per 100 pounds. A farm house fire southeast of West Union, owned by John Howard, insured for 2000, and tenant Eugene Whitcher, with no coverage on household goods.
Local notes report sickness at Feller's Hardware and Edie Klingman missing school. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. James Carmichael and Mr. and Mrs. Wm Walders visiting relatives. A missing fox terrier is sought. Movements include Smith moving machinery near West Union and Fay Klingman assisting. Also mention inciters of grain, a Staly Club postponement due to illness, and updates on residents Henry Christianson and Ole Matthys with eye injury recovery.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger piece surveys Greenwich Village literary circles showing how modern writers imitate mid Victorian idols by appearing unwashed and ragged. It notes coffee houses with dim lighting, carpets, and a stagey display of dirt to attract attention while contrasting with cleanly dressed earlier figures like Johnson and Swift.
In Arizona deserts the Lily family shows large growth and abundant beauty. Yucca and sotol bloom tall and stately, with water cactus reaching five to ten feet high and large circumference. Its heavy pulpy covering yields water when supplies run short, used by Indians and travelers.
A Boston Transcript note recalls a stenographer who quits over a boss who misses she is dressed for the matinee. The quip mirrors Henry Irving remarks about Miss Millward and a luncheon rehearsal. The reply urges her to run off at once then return tomorrow ready to work.
N W Evans and three children have been ill since Saturday due to vaccination. Many others report sickness on this score. A mid year conference at St Pauls, led by Rev Will Kirwin, proceeded with sermons and a group discussion on church program and a picnic supper followed by a quarterly meeting.
One cent a word ads advertise percentage wages for hosiery sales with full and spare time positions, offering $76 weekly full time and $1.50 hourly. International Stocking Mills, Norristown, Pa, requests agents. Also promotes auto top and curtain repairs, radiator work, boot and overshoe vulcanizing, Beamer Tire Shop contact.
A desert dwelling in the Mojave between Searchlight and Silver City California is built largely of beer bottles. Light and dark bottles with labels from famous brewers line the adobe walls. Twenty layers cover each wall totaling about three hundred dozen bottles, testifying to the builder known as the desert rat.
A garbled dialogue cites Mrs Johnston and Gap Jahieer with odd phrases about reading, gossip, and odd home remedies. The text includes misquoted lines and stray questions about a person and a nose rubbing with pepper, reflecting a muddled, unclear passage.
A new cook gives pork chops to a relative who phoned while the mistress was away. The parlor maid laments the missus will miss her, blaming the cat though none is present. The cook urges release of the canary to salvage the day.
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