Elgin Echo Publication Details
The Elgin Echo published every Thursday by R. P. Strauch. Entered at the Elgin Fayette County post office as second class mail matter.
27 Jul 1933
Page 1
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1933
Page
1
The Elgin Echo published every Thursday by R. P. Strauch. Entered at the Elgin Fayette County post office as second class mail matter.
Advertising rates listed include Foreign Display per vnch Local Display per inch Readers per ling Classified per word payable in advance minimum for first insertion no agent commission Cards of Thanks In Memoriam Cards Resolutions of Respect church society and school notices where admission is charged and obituary pastry all at regular rates Be 80 cents 10 cents le of 25 tom.
Iowa township assessors report that barely one in three farms has radios in operation for the year ending December 31. The drop, near 80 percent from two years ago, follows a peak when about half of farms used radios. The Clayton County Register notes economic conditions and rising advertising as causes, with listeners fleeing constant direct sales talks and low quality programming. Congress is spoke of tightening regulation.
An Ohio weekly editor counsels subscribers to return to basics during hard times. He notes little has changed economically and urges focus on home remodeling and modern conveniences to boost labor, while the Postville elevator reports shipping two carloads of barley and one of oats and rye, its first such shipment in fifteen years.
Patch Prairie visitors opened confident, but Elgin prevailed as the game closed. Local items note Dowse of Oelwein buying laundry machinery, births, deaths, new cabinets, teaching music, and visitors from Chicago and Nebraska. Community happenings include visits, travels, and preparations for the upcoming canning season at the local factory.
A dress maker toils through a busy afternoon as customers queue for quick fittings. The little woman defies fatigue, guiding busy hands with tea beside her unfinished lunch while chatter about ages fills the room.
Official notice records the renewal amendment of the Elgin Canning Company charter for twenty years from April 3, 1938, detailing Articles I through X1, including name, purpose manufacturing canned goods, capitalization of 40000 dollars, stock rights, directors, officers, meetings, transfer rules, and proxy voting, with locations listed in Elgin and surrounding Iowa towns. The document specifies board structure, officer titles, and stockholder protections while noting required notices and meeting procedures.
The Elgin Canning Company official documents record the signing and sealing of the instrument by President R O Woodard and Secretary Albert Schori, witnessed by a notary, with corporate authority affirmed. Local market notes list heavy springs at 11 cents per pound and eggs at 12 cents a dozen. B C Jorgenson plans a town band concert in Filgin tonight before a summer vacation.
Mrs. N. M. Fritz hosts her sons Charles Smith of St. Paul Minnesota and Frank Smith of Hood River Oregon, with their families, all visiting this week after many years apart. The notice ends with a garbled date fragment reading July 3 and an unclear reference to a 1908 assembly in Michigan.
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