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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1935
Page
3
Published every Thursday morning Elizabeth Priest local editor member of Iowa Press Association national editorial association sintered in the post office at Clermont Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
Clermont area residents visited relatives and friends across Castalia Lusna Decorah and Waterloo this week. Cedar Rapids and Des Moines guests joined local families at various homes and picnics. Local band members held a Friday weiner roast on the Emil Larson farm as community booster thoughts highlight farm prosperity and local business vitality.
The report covers farm exports shrinking from 75 percent to 45 percent of pre war levels between 1934 and 1935, with imports of competing products down except seeds and sugar. It notes soybean seed germination in Iowa, drought and pasture management, oats pasture impact on yields, lawn grass care, and asparagus planting guidance. It also projects a promising fruit crop in most of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Illinois, despite late frosts and strawberry losses.
The U S Marine Corps is accepting applicants aged 18 to 25 who can pass a strict medical exam. It promises steady work, advancement, education, travel, and sport opportunities. For details contact the Recruiting Station in Room 824 Post Office Building Chicago.
A Sumner Gazette item notes J. D. Hochberger and wife try a simple garden defense. They string a line between two stakes two feet high and suspend culinary paper sacks. The wind catching sacks creates moving bobbing barriers to deter hungry rabbits in the garden rows.
A Kentucky farmer’s help wanted notice from a local paper contrasts work demands with simple rewards. It promises three square meals a real bed and fair wages while humorously noting no dancing lessons no piano and no fancy meals yet asserts workers will not be treated as family but better than that.
Stillwater Minnesota Gazette editorial decries excess relief rolls nationwide and urges government leaders to prune welfare lists. It notes some recipients use relief funds for gasoline and oil, including those who drive cars. The piece calls for decisive action to reduce abuse and streamline aid programs.
Weasels or ermines, when white, show no strong habitat preference beyond abundant food sources. They favor areas offering plentiful small birds and other prey, rather than specific environments.
The article urges readers to support local advertisers as a civic duty, warns jay-walkers to beware, and notes the city’s business leaders pushing hard work for growth. It cites a Cranbrook Courier quip about a grouse at a liquor store and mentions an Iowa University zoologist planning to release parasites to curb grasshoppers at West Okoboji Lake.
The article touts the Echo Want Ad department as a quick efficient sales medium for items. It notes world telephone distribution with 32,495,856 phones overall, over 51 percent in the United States, about 35 percent in Europe, three and one half percent in Canada, and ten percent elsewhere.
A fragment suggests a remark that the laughing jackass might be categorized as more than one animal, possibly two birds, in a playful or rhetorical sense.
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