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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
3
A collage of domestic craft and cooking guidance covers sewing two-piece dresses for growing girls with growing-tuck tricks, placing pockets on bloomers, and identifying front versus back. It also offers meal variety ideas with crisp textures, sauces, and simple summer foods, plus stain removal using lard or solvents and picnic drink ideas using fresh juice and ginger ale.
Notice offers a cure for numerous ailments through A. F. Foods. Dr. O. A. Kinsel invites readers to explain their health issue by letter to Box 355 Postville Iowa for free advice and possible purchases. Also mentions Palm Beach Pants price and Berg's $4.50 item.
The article cites a decade comparison showing Missouri cow-testing profits rising from 88.21 to 139,383 per cow in 1927, notes over 95 percent of members use purebred bulls, and discusses Forest Service observations on dangerous gray or dust colored lightning clouds. It also covers strawberry tillage, irrigation needs, and weed seed production ranging from hundreds to thousands per plant with delayed germination up to years.
An old saying emphasizes that skipping seed-producing weeds one year leads to more trouble in the future. The sure method to curb annual and biennial weeds is to prevent them from going to seed.
The piece argues that local trade boosts wages and jobs in Elgin when residents spend money locally, benefiting enterprise and prosperity as prosperity rises and falls with home trade. It emphasizes the community-wide impact of supporting local factories and commerce.
Edward Claude, 80 year old Sherburn Minnesota resident, died after an operation to remove a swallowed false tooth plate. The plate lodged in the esophagus and was extracted by forceps through an abdominal incision. Despite rallying, his age and the serious surgery led to death.
An editor notes a firm’s advertising claim about humorous shirts. He observes a locally bought shirt with a sharp wit that arrived home unexpectedly, while Berg advertises real bargains in Oxfords.
A fragmented ad text touts calling Copper Hatcheries in Elgin Iowa offering poultry at two cents per bird. The skewed copy urges success by being right most of the time and hints at self-satisfaction as a goal.
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