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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1949
Page
4
Classified notice lists rates at 10 cents per line with a 30 cent weekly minimum when cash accompanies an order, otherwise 50 cents. Blind ads or inquiries incur 60 cents per week minimum. Promotion for Fountain pens and marking devices offered by Elgin Echo Printers and Stationers. Local botched entry included.
The swimming champion Marjorie Lansing, famed for her world titles and glamorous image, confronts a dramatic moment as Gib Rawlings announces her engagement to Buzz Hatley during a public event beneath a waterfall setting. The revelation unsettles Marjorie, revealing tensions behind the star’s glittering veneer.
Practical advice on controlling weeds in windbreaks and fields, protecting milking routines, watering hogs and sows during hot months, and maintaining livestock comfort. Emphasizes timely cultivation, shade, water, and weed seed prevention to ease next year’s weed pressures, with a nudge to use Want Ads for opportunities.
Gov Beardsley will not act on rent decontrol until local surveys are completed. Lone Tree, Johnson county, led requests for decontrol. Federal law grants power to the governor. no enabling act was passed in the recent session. Direct taxes for 1949 total more than 170 million, up 28.1 million from last year, with special state taxes at 150 million. Local units shoulder most taxes. counties 54 million and cities 24 million. World War I bonus board expands for 85 million to veterans. first check to Clifton Fine of Bedford. About 250,000 checks expected. over 15,000 ready after court decision.
Rotating hog pastures allows legume plants to replenish food in their roots during undisturbed growth. If legumes are grazed too closely for too long, they risk dying.
The passage traces evolving transport language noting emigrant cars and ice cars once common for moving people or goods, and bull trains of oxen wagons across plains. It highlights how such terms have fallen out of use with modern transport developments and shifting industries.
Local residents, including the Falbs, Lehman and Seidler families, plus neighbors from Charles City and Waterloo, spent Sunday and the following week visiting in each other’s homes. Guests joined together for picnics at Guttenberg and trips to South Bend, Indiana, with several families hosting or hosting later week visits. A birth was reported for a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Patrick at West Union hospital on Saturday.
A wooden match stick dipped in ink offers an excellent substitute for a pen in addressing parcels. It saves the pen and makes the writing bolder and clearer.
The wood duck nests in tree cavities rather than the ground selecting deserted hollows. The nest is built with sticks and plant matter and lined with feathers torn from the builder's breast.
Joseph Henry (1797 1878) was an American physicist who built the first electromagnetic motor, a forerunner of all electric motors. He helped organize the U S Weather Bureau and served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
A fragment mentions molds with eyes not seen due to earth and fur, requiring fur repair and close head inspection to reveal them. The text suggests intricate concealment beneath fur and soil, implying a concealed feature or mechanism rather than literal blindness.
The text cites the Secret Service protecting the President and stopping counterfeiters. It also reflects on ship width set by the Panama Canal and height by the Brooklyn Bridge, and recalls a quip about traffic cops. It mentions country roads commonly being 66 feet wide from the original surveyor's data.
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