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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1929
Page
1
The fragmentary text mentions growth tied to a desire for minus joining or progress, but lacks clear subjects or events to form a full report. No identifiable people, organizations, dates, or places are readable to anchor a concrete news item.
Colleges need endowments to cover building costs and obligations. Tuition shares only a small part of education costs. state institutions rely on legislature funding. Upper Iowa University seeks $450,000 from supporters to fund equipment, outstanding debts, and future growth, as it operates without state aid.
The column cheekily notes a local trend among prominent Elgin young men who say they will wed only when they find a wife who is both attractive and suitably unsuspecting. The remark plays on social expectations and humor about courtship.
Practical guidance on cooking and home management includes blackberry juice punch, rice and milk ratios, sewing machine care, souffle tips, ice saving methods, French toast, bread freshness for sandwiches, kitchen scissors utility, string beans preparation, and parenting advice on shaping children’s eating habits for better appetites and meal appeal.
Two Hebrews along a canal spotted a board offering five dollars for rescuing a drowning man. They conspired to have one be saved by the other and split the reward, but the debtor discovered the notice read ten dollars for a dead body. The scene ended amid confusion as Mo and others reacted.
A mixed report from rural Iowa notes minerals fed to hogs usually pay on Iowa farms. Social items include visits by the Larrabee family from Minneapolis to George Vaughn’s home, a piano sale ad from Chicago, and local gatherings at Elkader fair grounds with football on Sunday.
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