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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1941
Page
1
Pipe Dreams and nicknames in a comic column mix
A Rich's column riff exposes readers and columnists admitting to reading the piece, with jokes about nicknames, radio pop music, and home versus public lives. The piece cites quirky exchanges from readers, a minister, and a Missourian with six wives, then shifts to social observations about hypocrisy and public behavior.
Quotable Snippets and Jests From Public Discourse
A collection of light verses proverbs and quips on morals manners and everyday life. It includes jokes about sobriety lawyers letters telegraph repair work and marital wisdom with famous lines from Kipling Shakespeare Socrates Lincoln and others.
Echo Grace Buyer Suffers Arm Injury in Wind-Driven Tin Incident
In downtown t be addressed, a gust of wind hurled a loose tin piece at Echo Grace Buyer, wounding her left arm which required a sling. Her mother and sister accompanied her home as the injury was treated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Buyer
Clermont
Center Streets
Melbert Kohler
F.R. Berg
F. R. Berg & Co
Frank Kimball
Au Hospital
Henry Holger
Hhe
Join Bauman
Kansas
Rafrinson
Longmont
Colorado
Gus Gunderson
H. T. Knudtson
Omen
B.J. Halverson
John Bumuan
Beaver Rat Mystery in South American Waters
Nature Magazine identifies the beaver rat in southern Brazil Chile Paraguay and Argentina as Myocastor copyu or copyu. The animal, known as nutria, resembles a beaver and rat with a long scaly tail and webbed hind feet. Native Paraguayan name guiya adds confusion. Prolific copyu yields 300 000 to 500 000 skins yearly. Nine teenth century actions and disease caused sudden decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Saga Nature Magazine
Brazil
Chile
Paraguay
Argentine
Dominion's origin in Canada history and its political roots
Canadian history shows Canada first used the term dominion for its government form. W P M Kennedy notes February 8 1867 drafts named the federation and Macdonald pressed for a kingdom like union, but Lord Stanley withdrew the title to avoid upsetting the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominions
Dominion
W. P. M. Kennedy
Toronto
Kennedy
Kingdom of Canada
Macdonald
Lord Stanley
Marco Polo and the myth of Columbus discovery
Marco Polo's travels to China and his later book sparked imagination about the Far East. His journeys via Armenia Palestine Persia and China lasted three years there were 16 years in China. The text credits Polo's storytelling with influencing Columbus and the idea of reaching the East Indies by sailing west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marco Polo
America
Columbus
China
Armenia
Palestine
Persia
Far East
East Indies
West Indies
Marco Palo
Boundary of Arizona and the Gadsden Purchase
Irregularities in Arizona southern boundary tied to a December 30 1253 purchase from Mexico known as the Gadsden Purchase. It added land south of the Gila in New Mexico and Arizona, affecting the 30 degree 20 minute parallel and Mexico's access to Lower California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Mexico
Gadsden
Gila
New Mexico
Gulf of California
Lower
California
Radio lessons boost grades in New York junior highs
In a 4000 pupil study in New York City junior high schools classroom broadcasts were tested against standard teacher instruction. Half the pupils received hygiene lessons by regular teaching and half heard dramatized radio health lessons. The radio taught group achieved higher test scores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
First Words In Baby Language Development Discussed
The article traces how infants progress from babbled sounds to meaningful words. It outlines stages from first approximations to words like please pussy chicken and expands to vocabulary growth from ten months to four years, noting increasing sentence length and the shift to combined meanings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shadada
Mass Population Movements Before 19th Century Study
A Columbia University Press study in Population and Peace notes major migratory waves before the 1800s. It cites about a quarter of a million Huguenots leaving France after 1685 and as many as 20,000,000 Africans transported to the New World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University Press
France
New World
Cleaning hint for dusting painted walls
A housewife is advised to use a soft cloth and rotate the wiping surface while dusting painted or papered walls so dirt is not rubbed back. The tip emphasizes gentle, active cleaning technique to prevent smear marks and buildup.
Way Out in Solitary After Stabbing Cellmate
Michael Clay told Eastern Penitentiary officials he tired of looking at his cellmate after stabbing him with a table knife smuggled from the dining room. The incident, described in the American Magazine, notes other oddities from the period including a German shepherd that banks on meals from a Campbellville restaurant. In aviation news, government civilian pilot training drives light plane production as Aeronca forecasts 1941 output surpassing 2,000 aircraft with Friedlander and Smith guiding sales and executive leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Clay
Pennsylvania
Eastern Penitentiary
J. W. Friedlander
Aeronca Aircraft
Lee H. Smith
Friedlander
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Elgin Echo
R. P. Strauch
Elgin
Fayette County
Iowa
National
Igsociation
Neammiccian
Rich
Pipe Dreams
Casey” Jones
Hawk~ Eye
Col. Lemuel Q
Rover
Tuffy
Mr. Milquetoast
Santa Claus
Sonny Bay
Johnny
Rascal Yan
Bill Jones
Bill
Harry
Sadie
Ese Aman
Lincoln
Socrates
Jems
Echo
Yes
OWA
Child Welfare Research Station
Miller
K. C
H. W. Fischer
Elgin, Iowa
Lench
Cooley
Luther Durham
Campbellville
Middletown
Ohio
Lena Baumgartner
West Elgin
Mrs
Charles Feller
Cash Store
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