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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1937
Page
3
The Clermont Enterprise publishes weekly on Thursday morning from Clermont Iowa with Elizabeth Priest as local editor and member of Iowa Press Association. The paper is entered as second class mail matter at the Clermont post office in Fayette County Iowa.
The article weighs causes of automobile accidents from weather road conditions and vehicle faults, noting no single cause for crashes and urging broad cooperation to prevent them. It reports Sullivan Indiana mine blast deaths with only one escape. It also mentions a Dallas boys’ long running rummy game and Amelia Earhart search cost estimates of about 250000 per day totalling around 12 million over two weeks.
In Fred Biermann's News Letter the July 18 House vote 260 to 97 overrode Roosevelt's veto of a bill cutting interest rates on Federal Land Bank and Commissioner loans to 3 1/2 percent from July 1 1937 to July 1 1938 and 4 percent the next year. The piece notes rare veto overrides, explains bond and subsidy mechanics, and reflects on farm relief amid tariff damage.
The senate and house reached a conference bill on farm tenancy, improving supervision over government loan beneficiaries and restricting land sale for five years. A member had proposed twenty years to curb speculation and ensure borrower ownership and operation for longer.
A 19th century artist whose lace work on dresses appears real is shown in a group exhibit at Villa Louis Prairie du Chien. The painting of Col. H. L. Dousman’s granddaughters hangs near the front entrance as visitors admire its lifelike detail. The estate preserves documents in the old John Jacob Astor office, part of Fort O Shelby and Fort McKay’s mound site. Nearby Elgin visitors include Mr and Mrs Wm Kerr. A Mt. Pleasant oats field yields a state record 88 bushels per acre.
A collage of brief items: U S agricultural prices bureau employs 300 to gather farm price data. U S forest area is 506 million acres, three-fifths of colonial size. Utah baby Bruce Thomas at eleven weeks walks. a cemetery tour question about tombstone naming. wedding planned for early September. call for an old time bumper crop nationwide with weather and credit caveats. barley growers urged to let grain mature and threshing caution due to cracked kernels, noting federal standards permit no more than 5 percent cracks.
AARON Robarts, a 011 farmer, has wed his tenth wife after seven prior divorces and two widowings. He boasts of being the best well digger in the country as Libyan- era rhetoric and Newsdom critique mingle with a Elgin girl’s remark about her beau’s speed and lack of control. The piece also notes government bans on ocean stunt flying and mocks publicity stunts amid a sea of satirical jabs at propaganda and education.
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