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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1919
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text shows a weekly notice published every Thursday by B W Blighes. Mentions local columns, insertion opportunities, air display and legal notices. Subscription rates listed as one year in advance $1.50, six months 76 cents.
Ury'di Odell, formerly of Davia county and resident of Loulan county, faced a $6,000 fine imposed by Judge Wade in Keokuk federal court under the espionage act. Tried at Ottumwa, he was granted $2,000 in treasury bonds to cover the fine, with 30 days to pay, later extended 15 days. Arrested for nonpayment, he was deemed worth $60,000 and ordered jailed until the fine is paid.
Local items mention a Clermont dance during Fall Term on September 2 and a schedule for the Ladies Cemetery Agaddat meeting with Mrs. Thos Knudtson on July 9. Also referenced are farm transfers in Clayton County, returning soldiers and workers, and plans for Elgin school course discussions with Prof. Moore.
A former commercial traveler recalls a shift from warm, accommodating Western hotel clerks to today’s mechanical, impersonal front desks. He laments lost hospitality, noting earlier hosts made guests feel at home and often influenced loyalty and business.
A travel writer notes the difficulty of capturing full grown gorillas alive in the jungle. Gorillas resist even fatal wounds, requiring perhaps 150 men for safety. Tricks include staging near observers, then abandoning a bottle of spirits to draw the apes, who drink and quarrel until the trapper secures them.
A historical advertisement lists goods to be sold at Fishbourne's wharf including Tandems, shirtings, huckabacks, children's jumpers, whalebone, Newmarket caps, and diverse textiles. Many items such as humhums and barragons reflect period terms now obsolete, with remarks on evolving fashion and imports from India and the Levant.
Measurements from a London Anthropological Laboratory indicate the right arm is usually longer than the left in humans while the left leg tends to exceed the right. Reversals are rare, full equality nearly unknown, and men show a greater arm strength excess than women.
A fragmented OCR passage recalls a reformist mood after a peace celebration. A ship camouflaged in cubist print is criticized as garish, with a weary speaker lamenting the chaotic color scheme and muttering never again amid the confusing design.
The snippet reports stray ewes sought by farmer George Craft and local residents reconnecting with community events. It notes improvements on farms, new home renovations, a July 4 dance in Oelwein with Leach’s Orchestra, and travel notes from residents including Mrs. Ben Kohler. It mentions Mrs. John Barleycorn’s notoriety and a busy social scene with visitors from West Union, Petosa, and Cedar Rapids.
A dark calm aboard a destroyer yields a report of a ghostly noise investigated by the ship’s crew, revealing a surgeon probationer in a leather suit and a humorous exchange about haunting. The page also notes a child fatality from a car accident, a drilling accident, a town riot in Fast Dubuque, state flower trivia, and several local reentries and visits.
Public interest items show Dr. Ginsburg, noted eye specialist, scheduled for July 10 at the Elgin Hotel to examine patients. In Winneshiek county June issued 24 marriage licenses via Clerk J Moore as romance and roses mark the month. Community notes report anxieties over sons in service, a farewell party for Miss Joyce Groth headed to Seattle, and a roundup of local deaths and intergenerational passings.
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