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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1939
Page
4
A June survey shows rising hog production while corn feeding needs stay low. Flax sowing looks sound after dry spring. rust risk is limited by dry weather. Fire blight affects apples and pears. cedar rust spreads via spores. Practical tips cover lampshades, pruning, German Iris division, and chicken mite control using crankcase oil mixtures.
Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway are photographed in White Sulphur Springs after alighting from a special train. The royal couple take a brief rest in their 15,000 mile tour across the United States, the only period of relaxation noted on the journey.
Farmers use the Echo to place and read want ads for selling or buying items and seeking work, highlighting the economical method of connecting buyers and sellers directly through the newspaper.
The church marked its 60th year with reminiscences from past pastors and leaders, tributes to long-time workers, and special choirs. Attendees included out-of-town visitors from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Iowa. Ice cream, cake, and coffee capped the festive gathering with flowers and baskets enhancing the decor.
Elgin residents hosted visitors from Lincoln and Wadena with trips to Clive and gatherings at the Clarence Conner home where Mrs. Conner has been ill. Several local families joined a Fourth of July picnic in the school yard, including Baechlers Schneiders Muehlethalers Kohls and Baumgartners.
The latest genuine mahogany was found along the upper Amazon in western Brazil and eastern Peru. It has appeared on markets only recently and its precise range remains largely unknown as the region remains sparsely explored. The wood is described as exceptionally high quality.
The article notes camphor trees thrive on Formosa slopes plagued by malaria and snakes, yielding over 75 percent of world supply. It recounts 19th century deals by American merchants, Formosa’s port dredging and lighthouse, and a Japan-led government monopoly after 1895. Synthetic camphor emerged in 1908, with postwar demand boosting US production during influenza.
Strip or open cut coal mining serves shallow or thin seams unfit for shaft mining. Large power shovels remove overburden then coal is mined from the seam top. Pits can be 200 feet wide and sawtooth ridges form overburden removal, with cuts 10 to 50 feet deep and up to three miles long.
The Lincoln highway spanning 3964 miles runs from New York City through Jersey City Newark Trenton Philadelphia Lancaster York Chambersburg Pittsburgh East Liberty Canton Mansfield Lima Fort Wayne Elkhart South Bend Valparaiso Chicago Heights Aurora Geneva Rochelle Dixon Joliet Clinton Cedar Rapids Marshalltown Jefferson Council Bluffs Omaha Columbus Grand Island Kearney North Platte Cheyenne Laramie Medicine Bow Rawlins Rock Springs Evanston Salt Lake City Tooele Iba pah Ely Eureka Carson City Reno Truckee Placerville Sacramento Stockton Oakland. It is marked by red white and blue markers bearing a blue L on white.
A compact history traces elevator evolution from Henry Waterman’s 1850 crude platform hoist in New York to Elisha Graves Otis’s 1854 safety device. It notes Fox & Co in Boston, Otis’s Yonkers factory start in 1852, 1657 platform installs, Charles Otis’s 1878 safety governor, and the first steam driven passenger elevator in a New York office building in 1869.
A brief note explains how squirrels use their tails to steer leaps between branches. It cites the name origin from Greek and suggests the tail shading the animal when it sits up.
Gill Stanton confronts his wife Diane over mounting debt and a supposed coming inheritance from astrologer Tarzini. After threatening Tarzini, Diane is told no fortune will come, and Gill discovers a distant uncle has mysteriously left him $25,000.
At birth only the ethmoid sinuses are present. All other sinuses form later from small nasal depressions, growing as the child develops.
A collage of comic exchanges and moral quips in a sketch style interspersed with sales pitches for Mule-Hide Cor-Du-Roy Roofing and Martin-Senour Paints. It includes a police wit and a joke about inheritance and step mothers, ending with a lumber pitch.
A former Iowa native, Admiral William D. Leahy, retires as Chief of Naval Operations and will return to duty September 1 to oversee $30 million Puerto Rico defense bases and tackle island economic woes. He will serve as Governor of Puerto Rico, linking defenses for the Panama Canal and Monroe Doctrine while addressing unemployment and tariffs impacting local exports like coconuts and citrus.
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