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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1949
Page
4
A Pacific Lodge Broadcast outlines eight ways to undermine an organization by avoiding meetings, delaying action, criticizing without contributing, and refusing roles. A separate Twentieth Century Fund survey argues that agricultural production could rise 80 percent with large scale soil conservation and land development.
Instructions describe mending rubber gloves and rubber tubes using a tire matching outfit. Patches in the kit can be cut to any size, enabling repairs of small tears and leaks.
Pop, aging in advertising sales, endures a competitive office chase for the Hereford account. Brown uses flashy tactics but Pop finally earns the raise after Hereford’s testy reception, leaving his wife to celebrate with a back-slapping kiss and praise.
The article outlines legislative tension over road bills including emergency measures and a surplus-funded bonus. It notes Gov. Beardsley’s skepticism, Sen. Faul’s potential plan, and the swift senate path. It also reports first confirmations and resignations in state agencies including Lappen for board of control, Grantham leaving the tax commission, and possible highway commission picks such as Olson.
Elgin locals note a bill to extend the prohibition on political activity to all tax commission employees, not just members, sparked by Democratic push and administration supporters. Rep Kingsley Clarke of Adel sponsors a separate bill to raise the governor’s salary to 20,000 with an 8,000 increase, following 1947’s 12,000 raise and governor’s residence provision.
Rep Dewey Goode of Bloomfield introduces a bill in Des Moines to raise the homestead tax exemption from 25 to 35 mills. A separate measure would repeal most of the present tax on money and credits.
The Elgin library receives new adult titles including Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C Douglas The Plague and J Betty MacDonald Ravenswood by Mary Frances Jones Cleft Rock by Alice T Hobart Mr Blanding's Dream House by Hodgins Juvenile titles include Cowboy Boots by Shannon Garst Miss Tippy by Janet Lambert Dead Man's Gold by Wm Colt MacDonald The Red Headed Outfield by Zane Reid The Bewitched Caverns by Leona Rienow Like Father Like Fun by Andrew Allan The Mystery at Pickle Point by Duff McCoy Miss Silver Comes to Stay by Patricia Wentworth Mystery in Mission Valley by Grace Barnett The Picture Book of the Philippines by Hester O Neill Karl s Wooden Horse by Lois Donaldson The Wonderful Tar Baby by Walt Disney Mr and Mrs Noah by Lois Lenski The Little St Bernard by Dorothy K L Hommedsen The Bad Little Duckhunter by Margaret Wise Brown.
The Britannica World Atlas lists 21 Elgins worldwide, 16 in the United States, ranging from Elgin Montana to Elgin Illinois. Other Elgins appear across Arizona Iowa Kansas Minnesota Nevada Nebraska North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Texas plus one in South Africa Moray Scotland and in Canada Ontario New Brunswick Manitoba.
The Louis Koevenigs of Hill City South Dakota report a "regular Iowa winter" with mail only three times in the past three weeks. A Rapid City reader sent clippings showing two Indian squaws skinning a deer during a blizzard, an exhausted fawn saved by conservation rations, hundreds of deer in distress, and Northwestern train crews plowing.
A fragment notes light snowfall and minimal sub zero days in northeast Iowa, boasting resilience and luck as a snow bank towers above an engine, suggesting unusual conditions and gratitude for spared hardships.
A Bes 38 Willys sedan skidded and crashed into a guard rail at the Louis Nelson corner west of Elgin Saturday night. Damage to the car about 200 dollars. Four persons were in the car but none were hurt.
During the fifty years before world war, Australia mined opals valued over 10 million dollars. The standout year was 1928 with gems weighing 790,500 carats amounting to 292 carats each, marking a notable field discovery.
Two ghosts play poker when a knock sounds at the door. They ask who is there and hear a punning reply about rigor mortis setting in. Short, macabre humor in a classic newspaper joke tone.
A basic dove recipe instructs to season dressed birds, dredge in flour, fry in hot fat until brown, then transfer to a baking pan, sprinkle with flour, add water, and bake in a moderately hot oven for 35 minutes.
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