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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
3
W. R. Carruthers of the Whitehorse Star extols newspapers as the best advertising medium. He notes newspapers reach homes, convey varied world and local news, and create a ready audience for ads, stressing the time money and effort behind effective publication.
The term plus fours arose from the Guards regiment in England. Soldiers wore puttees with trousers pulled up and rolled so the trouser fabric draped over the calf. The order required trousers to be plussed four inches over the top of the puttee. Officers adopted knickerbocker breeches for a similar look and were nicknamed plus fours.
In England impeachment is described as an archaic process with the House of Commons able to impeach and trials held in the House of Lords. The text notes impeachment as obsolete in current practice.
A broad Iowa and national farm roundup reports rising cattle feeding in the Corn Belt and West, higher winter farm wages, cheese demand as a path to better milk prices, seed corn germination tests, oat fodder for sows, peanut day promotions, local road plans, and WPA fuel incidents alongside church marriage tallies at the Little Brown Church in the Vale.
A mixed set of notes reports Want ads as salesmen and a warning about a church calendar grafter in Iowa. Iowa liquor sales in 1936 total 6 260 000 with about 20 percent profit. Dygert Bros of Manchester imported 60 Belgian stallions since last fall. The Sunday Visitor cartoon critiques liberal spending versus giving.
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