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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1940
Page
4
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Coin machine makers unveiled new coin operated devices a milk dispenser and a book vending unit showcasing compact design and user friendly operation aimed at retail and public spaces.
The record telegram from Birmingham Alabama dated January 30 19K carried 41000 signatures and stretched a quarter mile in length. It required 19 hours and eight minutes to transmit via high speed automatic telegraph instruments, the story notes in Collier's.
The snow cruiser, a 55 by 15 foot house on wheels, carries a five passenger airplane on its roof and houses crew quarters engine room galley and store room. It has a 6000 mile range and cost 150000 to build insulation includes four inch mineral wool to withstand minus 100 degree temps.
The term Bolsheviks derives from the Russian word bolshe meaning larger, denoting the larger faction. A government survey finds farm families are best fed in the country while village families are the poorest, based on family food consumption data.
The fragment cites Herodotus describing Egyptian laborers kneading clay with hands while kneading dough with feet. It notes bakers who followed the practice into recent times, implying workers received double the labor from employees.
The American Chemical Society reports that investigations into a wide range of minerals show they are not aggregates of small molecules but rather consist of more or less intricate networks of atoms, indicating complex atomic framework structures.
Dr. Robert S. Shaw, president, upheld the campus no smoking rule as a growing tradition. Students are allowed to discipline violators by tossing them into the nearby Red River, a practice framed as a long-standing campus custom observed for four years.
Public telephone booths on New York City subway platforms may become virtually noiseless. The experimental booths have no doors and will be lined with sound absorbing materials like rock wool and perforated metal. Trains entering the niches would roar but be trapped and kept silent in theory.
Natural History magazine explains lac production relies on vast lac insect colonies that live on tree twigs. The word lac derives from the Sanskrit laksa meaning hundred thousand, reflecting the many insects needed for even a small piece of lacquer.
Ancient peoples in warm climates valued baths early, with Hebrews using foot baths as hospitality symbols while Greeks Romans and Egyptians enjoyed bathing before soap and water became common.
The Hatteras Lighthouse, once the tallest brick light in America, stands on a pine pile foundation driven into muck in 1870. Despite saltwater exposure the piles are believed intact and well-preserved.
Australia features the world's longest straight railway section on the Nullarbor plain. The line travels without curves for over 300 miles across the flat expanse, earning acclaim for its uninterrupted track geography.
Ancient Irish clans including the O Lees O Hickeys O Shields and O Cassidy kept leech books. These texts contained the lore of leech healing and methods used by healers in their communities.
Margus Harris of Netarts Oregon fashioned a full moleskin coat in her spare time. She trapped moles cured hides and sewed the coat herself following government pamphlet instructions. Fur experts say it is worth a significant amount.
The article notes Ries plans to grow all quinine and much vanilla in the United States, addressing a current dependence on importing the entire supply from foreign countries. It highlights a shift from foreign to domestic production of these commodities.
A guide to window repair detailing removal of broken glass and old putty, cleaning sash, priming with lead-based putty to prevent absorption, and careful glazing. It notes deducting one eighth inch from sash measurements for expansion and proper fit.
A column mixes frugal fruit juice recipes and canning tips with Iowa agricultural updates. It covers making fruit drinks from canned juices, strawberry tarts, cherry milk ade, and orange quench, plus notes on poultry breeding, alfalfa, sweet clover, hog feeding, and crop reports.
Firm under ripe tomatoes are hollowed and filled with a mixture of onion chicken or ham egg and buttered crumbs. After baking until heated through the tomato shells hold stuffing with crumbs on top. Tomatoes may be baked in custard cups or served with buttered bread. Broiled tomato slices also garnish meats.
Lows lead the Middlewest in prospects for an apple crop this Fall. A good grade of paint covers 200 to 250 square feet to the balloon, two coats. Poultry and eggs accounted for seven percent of Iowa cash farm income in 1938. Fire blight in pear and apple trees is prevalent across Iowa this year, more than last year. Iowa farmers raised nearly 44.
Glaciers move like rivers but slowly. The Upernivik glacier in Greenland reached 89 feet per day in spots. Muir Glacier in Alaska flows about seven feet daily near tidewater. Black Rapids glacier near Fairbanks set a short time record, advancing five miles in four months at 220 feet per day.
New Hampshire remains the sole New England state with a Fast Day on the last Thursday in April. The 1881 proclamation came as the provincial governor lay dying and called for public fasting and prayer amid signs of divine displeasure. Boulder Dam cost about 70 million dollars. Only around 250 Texas Longhorn cattle of the once numerous breed remain.
A New York pictorial outlines a probable attack plan for a Blitzkrieg against England if Britain does not accept Hitler's peace terms. The assault would combine air and sea power after a Channel bombardment from the French coast, with Stuka bombers targeting resistance as troops land across the channel. Informants in Berlin and Rome assert the Blitz could occur within days, with possible unexpected moves from both sides.
A jumble of quirky ads and captions shows a mix of household tips and humorous lines. A magistrate advises a determined husband to assert dominance, a motorist jokes about repairmen on poles, and Mule-Hide roofings promote easy home upgrades. The Nordic offers a library gag about Ben Hur, and a note on leak-proof Brain bins hints at precision products.
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