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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
4
A comparative sketch contrasts Masai women's extreme body adornment with wire rings and beads that distort movement, against Japan's rigidly predefined female role. The piece notes Masai ritual dress during engagement and Japan's culturally fixed kimono and hair rules, portraying how tradition shapes female bodies and lives.
A writer discusses how many people think in pictures when words evoke clear mental images. He cites Galton and traces imagery to ancient hieroglyphs, suggesting memory fixes objects as vivid pictures in the brain and that words trigger composed visual recalls.
The piece traces tipping origins from To Insure Promptness and notes anti tipping campaigns recur. It cites George I complaining about English manners on arrival at St James and a canal carp gift turning into a demand for five guineas to Lord Chetwynd’s servant for bringing carp from his own canal.
From Admiral Hotham’s papers comes a Gilbertan governor tale. General O’Hara berates a new officer who marched with an umbrella in an easterly wind. He orders the officer to discard the umbrella and warns not to appear with it again, rain or not, lest pikes rain down.
A fragment from James Lane Allen's The Kentucky Warbler evokes Frost Foreste where winter mornings reveal a forest of glistening tree shadows on window panes. The narrator imagines birds, unseen creatures, and the pull of a green summer forest on the horizon as he contemplates the frosted scene.
In Siberia among the Samayed a matchmaker visits a sleepy father who pretends indifference as gifts are offered. The ceremonial staff wakes him and he promises to consult kin, but the outcome seems already settled that the marriage will occur.
A concise historical view traces the term Grass Widow to an eleventh century law that kept widows under protection for a year before remarriage. It follows usage from Sir Thomas More era linking to unmarried mothers, and notes a US gold rush practice of boarding wives in camps, described as “putting one's widow out to grags.”
The Milwaukee Journal laments scarce Christmas trees and rail shortages that barred many homes from obtaining them. It argues that protecting young trees is essential to ensure future supply, noting the futility of destroying healthy saplings to meet immediate demand.
An ordinary gas reading lamp can be converted into four satisfactory electric picture lamps at moderate cost. The gas burner and piping are removed and replaced with sockets and electric bulbs, wiring passes up through the lamp’s stand. Tall candlesticks may also be fitted with electric bulbs and used with small bulbs at ends of a plane or sideboard.
The ad promises one hundred dollars for any edge of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It hails Hall's medicine as a 35 year old remedy that cleanses the blood and heals diseased portions. It urges immediate use and notes testimonials and Toledo based company F J Cheney & Co. as the supplier.
The article notes German losses through April 30, 1919 totaling 2,050,460 dead and 4,207,028 wounded with 616,022 captured or missing, bringing total casualties to 6,873,410. It claims dwindling German manpower and immense postwar sales of war stores, plus prospects for alcohol fuel from potatoes. It also mentions Ern Holzer driving Dorr's King hog to 926 pounds at Weibel's scales and a note on Frank Capper’s business in Oelwein.
Cheery Valley reports a busy spell with many visits and gatherings. Jake Christen hosted company, Carl Torkelson returned from seven months in France, and Misa Elsie Scholen stayed with Tom Hanson. Numerous residents attended a Memorial Exercises and Decoration Day events while others visited relatives across nearby towns.
By virtue of a writ of attachment from Fayette County District Court, John Falk sues James Bordman. The sheriff will auction walnut logs from G R I B railways at West Union and Clermont, heavy timber in Elgin, and pole wood near Higgin, on June 12, 1919, at 1:30 PM in front of the West Union Courthouse.
Henry Martin and men endured a severe storm while camping in a hollow. Heavy rain flooded their tent and cook shack, with water rising over two feet before subsiding, leaving mud inside. They returned home and plan to wait for dry conditions. The piece also notes savings practices driven by war bonds and postal savings schemes boosting bank deposits.
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