Classified ads and notices page from Elgin Echo
Advertising rates in advance are 1c per word per week. Notices charged 7 1 2 per line if unpaid. Minimum 26c. The page lists lost items, for sale items including corn oats and a cash register, wanted services, rent notices, and office supplies with locations in Elgin Clermont and Postville Iowa. Individuals named include J B Shipton L C Reierson Abe Habeger J O Anderson Henry Topp Fred Lenhart R P Strauch D D May Hans Winkler H W Falk and others. Various dates and classifieds span 13tfc 14p 14-17p 14-15p 13tfc 18-14 4t 46tfe.
Elgin State Bank Receives Iowa Banking Authority Approval
The Elgin State Bank in Elgin Iowa is certified as compliant with state incorporation laws and capital requirements under Chapters 414 and 415. Authority is granted to transact state bank business with the first board of directors named: Ernest Schori J D Shaffer Hans Winkler George Hanson Fred Reichert W S Rothlisberger K H Groth B M Benson F S Kohler J E Bilden T J Capper Max Thoma. Des Moines October 27, 1930.
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State of Iowa
Elgin State Bank
Elgin
Iowa
Ernest Schori
J. D. Shaffer
Hans Winkler
George Hanson
Fred Reichert
W. S. Rothlisberger
K. H. Groth
B. M. Benson
F. 5. Kohler
J. E. Bilden
T. J. Capper
Max Thoma
Des Moines
Seal L
A. Andrew
W. O. Reed
Reserve for a National Bank at Baker Oregon
A quirky Elgin School News item notes a National Bank reserve at Baker weighing eighty lounces and valued at 1408 dollars, with odd asides about ancient Romans highways and a joke exchange on cigars and a wildcat. It presents a collage of snippets.
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Baker
Oregon
Prices 100 Years Ago in Eastern Ohio
A catalogue of 1825 26 prices shows eggs at four cents a dozen butter at eight cents a pound sugar ten cents a pound pepper fifty cents a pound coffee thirty one cents a pound tea twelve fifty a pound bacon six fourteen a pound whiskey twenty five cents a gallon oats fifteen cents a bushel wheat forty cents a bushel corn twenty five cents a bushel maslin twenty nine cents a yard catico thirty six cents a yard wall paper four and a half to twelve and a half cents a yard salt two and a fourth cents a pound Exchange.
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Ohio
Maslin
Catico
Exchange
Thompson Named Labor Committee Chairman in Legislature
The Hon. Thore Thompson of Fayette county is named chairman of the house committee on labor and will serve on agriculture banks and banking compensation of public officers drainage enrolled bills and railroads. Also notes on a Feb 5 Elgin Opera House dance and subscription deal for Elgin Echo and Dubuque Telegraph Herald. Britain and Ireland reserve 250000 acres for golf with an estimated value of about 37500000.
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Thore Thompson
Fayette County
House Committee On Labor
Arpo-Gazette
Mason and Dixon Line Created to Set Boundaries
The Mason and Dixon line traced by Mason and Dixon divided Pennsylvania and Maryland under an agreement between Calverts and William Penn. They surveyed in 1764, carving an eight foot wide path and placing miles stones with Penn and Baltimore emblems. The line predated slavery concerns, which later affected its meaning as a boundary between free and slave states.
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Mason and Dixon
St. Charles Mason
John Dixon
Calverts
Maryland
William Penn
Pennsylvania
England
Mason
Royal Observatory
Greenwich
Lord Baltimore
Colonies
How Venice Procured Body of Patron Saint
Venice rose as a prosperous state with St. Mark as its patron. In 827 A D a Venetian ship from Alexandria, led by Rustlea of Torcello Buono of Malamocco and Stauracio, bribed the tomb guardian to seize the saint’s body. After a lavish reception in Venice St. Mark became the city’s patron saint.
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Venice
Italy
St. Mark
Alexandria
Rus Tlea
Torcello
Buono
Malamocco
Stauracio
Beggars Granted Licenses In London To Beg For Ransom
Historical notes describe early 16th century London licensing of beggars. By 1517 an official roll listed over 1,000 beggars and poor in each ward, issued round tin badges stamped with London arms. Badge holders were to police foreign beggar competition and others faced death if begging.
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Oncaea
London
City of London
Dieting from 1614 to rainmaking myths in Australia
A 1614 illustration shows Sanctorius weighing chair to track daily food intake, an early dieting device. In Queensland, rainmakers use a 20 inch rain stick with stones, summoning rain by ritual splashes and shins scratched with twigs, with restrictions on women’s gaze.
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Sanctorius
Queensland
Not at Home Soldier Rebuff in London Anewers
A London Anewers quip depicts Wilson, a pale nervy recruit, visiting the recruiting office where a burly sergeant taunts him. The sergeant claims all soldiers are out, suggesting Wilson should return another day. The tone is sharp and humorous about military enlistment.
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Wilson
London
Bequest to Thun by Swiss Brewer Herr Feller
A Swiss brewer, Herr Feller of Thun, left his entire fortune to the town since he had no near relatives. He decreed an annual banquet for the Society of Fine Arts at his expense and funded wines from his priceless collar. His goblets, garden produce, and the Sowers word were to service the feast.
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Herr Feller
Thun
Sociery of Fine Arts
Elephants and Their Speeds in Charge Scenarios
An old note cites Cooper and Jennigan on elephant seed and gait, and F G Serous in The Living Animals of the World on elephant pace. It quotes Mr Sanderson and the author’s own view that Indian elephants walk and can quicken to about 15 mph briefly, African elephants may reach 20 mph and sustain 100 to 200 yards when charging. Charging elephants likely outrun most humans.
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Cooper
Jennigan
F. G. Serous
Sanderson
Aim of Pioneers Was Destruction of Forests
The article traces early settlers' hostile view of forests, noting two centuries of limited progress in clearing land. It describes vast, nearly unchanged forest volumes from colonial times to the Cavallera of Virginia and the Puritans’ era, with few cleared areas along the Atlantic coast and slow sawmill adoption against nature’s regrowth. It highlights Maine's forests producing a fourth crop of saw timber as the legacy of vast woodlands once used for masts and spars for the navy.
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Virginia
Massachusetts
Pacific
Atlantic
Maine
King's
Egyptian Mummification Rises From Nile Flood Labor
Egypt owed its scientific advance to the Nile as floods disturbed soils. Tombs were hollowed in hills and surfaces honeycombed. To tide the dead through high water weeks, bodies were embalmed and the custom spread to animals, especially cats, becoming mummies.
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Egypt
Nile
Rooster Tale Surprises Aunt and Mary Lou
A country visit ends with a humorously evasive answer about a rooster. Mary Loulee says the bird ran away, noting it was old and tough so eating him would have been unlikely. The aunt later asks Mary Louise's mother about the rooster’s fate.
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Mary Lou
Mary Louise
Mary Loulee
Straw Hat Bleaching by Sunlight in Luton Factory
A Garden of Hats: In Luton England straw hats are bleached by sun exposure rather than chemicals. A large open space beside the factory holds rows of hats on sticks undergoing whitening, turning the bleaching area into a field of white blooms.
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Luton
England
Ita Rowa
A Poet at 8 Oliver Goldsmith Beginnings
A fragment reports that at age eight Oliver Goldsmith scribbled verses on scraps and impressed his mother with early talent. It notes her urging his education to suit his gifts and hints at his later poetic potential. The text also mentions a 25,000 year old bone needle in Chicago's Field Museum tied to Magdalenian crafts.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
Henry Field
Gantles
France
Mint Bares
Reading Through Historical Finance and Forensic Bits
The text sketches early preferred stocks tied to railroad reorganizations and limited liability, noting investor protections and fixed liability. It touches on subscription services and cost savings, fingerprints uniqueness, and a Kentucky Derby race rule that three year olds are eligible, with some commentary on breeding stakes.
Power and deception in education's duty path
A reflective note warns that those chasing education under the guise of duty are misled by imagined gains. It contrasts the supposed power given to allies with the peril of harming Henry Adama, implying a caution against patronage and manipulation.
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Henry Adama
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W. J. Wettleson
Postville
J. B. Shipton
Clermont
L. C. Reierson
Abe Habeger
Anderson
National Cash Register
R. P. Strauch
Elgin Echo
Echo
Falk
Falk’s
Fred Lenhart
D. D. May
McCasky
Crosby-Wirth
Elgin Bakery
H. W. Falk
Echo of Opera House
Evenin
Eusy
Elgin School News
Willie
Sam
John Hatch
Olif
Bob
Lewis
Tola
Rep. Thompson
Elgin Opera House
Dubuque
Great Britain and
Ireland
State Dept. of Agriculture
Bentley Phen van de Ore
Sumner
Oolumon
Mars
Elgin Delto
Ates Canis Cole
Weibel Mill Company
Luree
Torkelson Bros
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