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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1931
Page
8
Oak Grove residents hosted and visited over the weekend with numerous calls and guest appearances. The map includes D O Dean and Lyle Wilson families at Walter Kohls, plus gatherings at John Howard and Ed Boyle homes, Elgin visitors, and Arlington visitor Vera Northrup staying with Lyle Wilson family.
Mrs James Boyle and family hosted guests at the Ed Boyle home in Estherville. Bend and Mrs James Boyle of Estherville plus Sheldon Boyle attended. Junior Kohls and Sheldon Kohls visited Floyd Boyle near West Union. Ben Brabham and son were guests Friday and Saturday in West Union. Yvonne Schaffer and Georgia Ben of Des Moines stayed with Mr and Mrs Beryl Boleyn. L W Reed and spouse visited West Union to meet their new granddaughter in the Ralph Reed family.
A total of 229 pupils in 116 rural one room schools achieved perfect attendance for the 1980 year, 12 percent of the 1,895 enrolled. County Superintendent L G Meyer notes the milestone amid a historically mild winter. Certificates are issued to each perfect attendee, with a list from Pleasant Valley, Clermont and Illyria townships naming students such as Leon Jacob, Gerald Heck, Lola Maye Boyer, Thelma Buroden, Mary Baechler and others.
Across 4000 years of empire China avoided a hereditary aristocracy choosing rulers by examinations. The wisest men, selected from the land, faced tests at the imperial palace in Peking conducted by the emperor himself.
The Indian snake dance aims to invoke the spirits of the dead. Dancers stamp forcefully with the right foot to beckon the departed and transform themselves into messengers of the dead.
During the siege of Syracuse in the Second Punic War Archimedes is said to have built a burning mirror that supposedly set Roman ships alight. The link between such an instrument and destroying the fleet is doubtful and uncertain.
The capital of the territory of Oklahoma, Guthrie, was made the state capital by the enabling act of 1908 but a 1910 vote moved the capital to Oklahoma City, where it has remained since.
Popular American novelist and clergyman B. P. Ros is noted to have been born and died in 1888. His works showed moderate literary merit yet were engaging and absorbing to readers of his time.
The piece notes a Maryland officer named Wilmot as the last man killed in the Revolutionary War during a skirmish at James Island near the end of 1782.
Local social items mention eS fensel Bess Stohr of Elkader at home, Priscilla Club gathering hosted by Mrs Max Thoma, and Betty Jane Elkema visiting Iowa City with her mother. Also listed are business visits by F R Berg and Florence, and family visits by Arthur Schmels and mother.
The text explains two bullfighter hats the montera worn in the arena and the sombrero ancho worn on the street. It lists royal houses for Sweden and Norway with names Bermadotte and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg.
A concise reflection notes that those wholly lacking good qualities cannot appreciate or understand them, a paradox about perception and virtue. The aphorism attributed to La Rochefoucauld suggests insight depends on possession of certain traits.
Rome opens widerground tombs of early Christian martyrs to tourists. Galleries placed end to end would stretch about 600 miles, highlighting vast underground church history and heritage offerings.
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Weargate Readlyn Qray and Fairbank organize a four team league. They will play a series of three games each for the remainder of the season as announced in the Echo.
John Jr. Falk was a business caller in Cedar Rapids last Saturday. Mrs. Anna DeSart and Dorothy along with Richard Oolberg were visitors in Le Mont on Sunday. They also visited the state park.
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