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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1934
Page
5
Fragmented want ad notice describes pricing 25 words for 25 cents with extra charges for longer items. Mentions telephones and monthly deadlines, a Holstein bull for sale, and a paper-club offer with price details, all in unclear printing.
A quirky tale recalls ancient youths in Mediterranean isles taught to sling stones to secure food or risk hunger. A Kentucky man lost a jug of cider when a card from a euchre deck vanished from the store tag. H. O. Heston notes the first sweet corn pick of the season occurred Tuesday.
Announcement from Worcester Maas describes completion of a minuscule volume of Omar Khayyam’s quatrains. The leather bound book, produced by Philadelphia publishers after seven years, measures one eleventh inch by five sixteenths inch and weighs a third of a carat.
Popular Mechanics describes a floating effect using two ring shaped cobalt steel magnets in a Westinghouse frame. The lower magnet is fixed while the upper magnet rides on a guide and hovers about an inch above the base, demonstrating repulsion and gravity balance in air.
The Chicago Tribune reports UC produced neutron rays using a B5-ton magnet. Charged hydrogen gas is pumped into the device and circulated at high speed. Neutrons, more penetrating than X rays or radium, emerge after lead shielding filters other particles.
Nature Magazine reports irrigation transformed arid prairie lands in Colorado into lush green fields. Breeding grounds expanded for Brewer's blackbirds mourning doves sparrows and swallows. The resplendent ring necked pheasant, an introduced species, now thrives in these watered areas.
A reader urges customers to count change only after leaving the cashier window and returning to complain. It argues counting at the moment is common sense yet improper if done while still at the counter.
An American maker notes every automobile carries nearly two bushels of corn, since paint and compounds require corn derivatives. A visitor asks about politics while Senator Sorghum quips that people believe they will win next time. Jokes touch on Shakespeare and mail orders amid a brief, fragmented exchange.
A collage of maxims and sayings on love, work, ambition, wisdom, and social life. Notes reference patience, prosperity, education, honesty, and the role of money, with scattered fragments about Confucius, Moses, and civic virtue.
The passage argues fear is the deadening influence behind many failures in life and history. It credits world pioneers mapmakers empire builders inventors and philosophers as those least affected by fear, suggesting fear impedes achievement while courage drives advancement.
The article notes typhoid-causing bacteria are extremely small. It states 12,000 bacteria would form an inch line and 9,000,000,000,000 would fill a cubic inch, emphasizing they are not the smallest bacteria.
The University of Wisconsin stands as the oldest state institution and appears older than the state itself, with origins dating a full decade before Wisconsin achieved statehood. This highlights the university’s early establishment and long-standing educational prominence in the region.
Article notes arsenic has several applications including medicinal treatment for certain forms of anemia, preservation of wood, and use as a clearing agent in glass manufacturing. It mentions various arsenic compounds and their utility in industry.
A report indicates cancer is widespread among animals including cattle horses dogs cats birds fish mollusks and reptiles, suggesting a broad health concern across the animal kingdom.
Bamboo matting is extensively used as boat sail material by natives of the East Indies, highlighting a practical craft practice and regional reliance on bamboo resources for maritime needs.
A European scientist reports germs vary in size with many capable of surviving on a pinhead. The study suggests microbe counts and characteristics differ by location and environmental conditions, highlighting the complexity of tiny infectious agents.
A garbled list shows Fayette County central committee members by town and ward with numerous names including Auburn Union Banks Selma Trager Bethel W B Krause Sumner Juanita Tibbetts Center Wins Benz Randalia Kitch Clermont Ella Johnson Dovepf F John L Mark Oxajan Emma Bauer Eldorado Wautoma Sige Ostrander Alpha Fairfield W E Anderson Arlington H R Youngs Fayette C W Stevenson Fayette Aline Fussell Fayette Fremont Fran C Klammer Westgate Pearl Kollman Westgate Harlan Oscar Gilley Maynard Mrs Frank Cummings Maynard Illyria W S Rothlisberge Migui Mary Ogle Jefferson A W Stetwart Oelwein Mrs Ethel M Hateh Oelwein Paul Neubauer Lorraine Asaby Oelwein John D Singer Adena Deyo Oelwein Fred Thiele Blanche Flaig Oelwein Fred Harms Grace Luther Oran Will Dilley Marie Shippy Oran Pleasant Valley R P Strauch Elgin Tile Bangor Elgin Putnam Eric A Barrack Arlington Mrs Arthur Talcott Lamont Scott E D James Stanley Amy Lincoln Oelwein Smithfield A J Koehler Fayette Blanche Turner Fayette Union James Reisner West Union Ethel Saltsgiver Elgin Westfield A M Doughty Fayette Mrs L A Kiel Fayette West Union First Ward E E Brown West Union Lola Whitney West Union Second Ward H A Reiners West Union Anns Rush West Union Third Ward Geo B Woodard West Union Martha Anfinaon West Union Windsor W C G Robinson Hawkeye Clara Foot Hawkeye
State department of agriculture ruling by the attorney general requires cooperative creameries to collect a two percent sales tax from patrons on butter purchases. Tax may be charged for two weeks or more or a month with payment at period end. The creamery must apply the method only to its patrons.
The Board of Directors of Independent School District of Elgin Iowa will meet July 24 1934 at 8 00 P M at Elgin State Bank Elgin Iowa Taxpayers will be heard for or against the following estimate of expenditures 8B J Baumgartner District Secretary The town council of Elgin Iowa will meet August 6 1934 at 8 30 P M at the Town Hall Taxpayers will be heard for or against the following estimate of expenditures C J Harrington Town Clerk
Fragmentary notes discuss whether Columbus reached mainland North America, noting Cabot's 1497 voyage near Sen Salvador in the West Indies and contrasting claims about discovery and continental landfall. The text also contains garbled, unrelated lines about Tibetans and odd observations.
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