Elgin Echo Postal Listing in Fayette County
The Elgin Echo is entered in the post office at Elgin Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
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Elgin
Fayette County
Iowa
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1937
Page
1
Advertising rates and classified note details appear
Advertising rates show foreign display per inch local display per inch readers per line and classified per word with prepaid terms. Cards of thanks in memoriam and resolutions of respect are listed with miscellaneous notes and obituaries priced at regular rates. Copy is garbled with partial phrases and misprints.
You Can Buy It at Home: Wellman Advance Note
Mrs Lola C Coffey urges Wellman readers not to shop outside town for the latest styles. She recalls a Chicago trip where a blue silk dress matched a New York purchase, proving retailers big and small access similar markets. Home merchants should be checked first for groceries hardware implements autos and appliances. Iowa Publisher
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Lola C. Coffey
Wellman
Chicago
New York City
Iowa
Strikes Costly to Production and Consumers
Strikes disrupt production and earnings for workers forced out of jobs, push up costs for urban and rural consumers, and interrupt recovery. No estimates exist for total impact this year, but losses will run into billions. Higher production costs fall on consumers, including plant workers, reversing NRA era trends of higher pay and shorter hours.
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NRA
America
Taxogram outlines daily tax burden on earnings
The piece notes the average citizen pays more than one dollar from each day’s pay in taxes for a family of four and highlights how taxes cut into daily income. It also reports the Iowa highway death toll rising to 199 this year, up from 171 last year, with period details implied.
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Iowa
Can You Remember Prof J H Williams And Friends
A compiled note lists Prof J H Williams Gus Thoma Leslie Lehman and Lou Christ leaving Monday evening for Lake Moses Minnesota to camp and fish for two weeks. They will be joined by Dr S W Kuster after they depart St Paul.
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J. H. Williams
Gus Thoma
Leslie Lehman
Lou Christ
Lake Moses
Minn
St. Paul
S. W. Kuster
Remsen
Homestead exemption applications in Fayette county total 3740
Exemptions from taxes on homesteads reached 3740 in Fayette county according to county auditor J. H. Cline. The figure, while under projections, aligns with county population. City filings exceeded rural by over 500, with Oelwein leading at 948 and West Union at 339 among listed towns.
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Fayette County
J. H. Cline
Fayette
Oelwein
West Union
Arlington
Hawkeye
Elgin
Clermont
Waucoma
Maynard
Wadena
Westgate
Randalia
St. Lucas
Donnan
Fairbank
Dover
Auburn
Weatfield
Jefferson
Illyria
Fairfield
Pleasant Valley
Eden
Bethel
Windsor
Harlan
Oran
Banks
Fremont
Putnam
Center
Union
Scott
Smithfield
Argo-Gazette
Bottle Breakers Leave Trail On Highways And Streets
Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers plan to marry June 26. It will be Marys third venture.
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Mary Pickford
Buddy Rogers
Mary
The Wedding Month in June's Romantic Tide
The piece celebrates June as the peak month for weddings noting roses and ample romance. It contrasts cynical views with the idea that each union is a distinctive voyage into unknown seas, a splendiferous event full of color and drama even in quiet ceremonies.
Finish Face Brick Work On School Building
Bricklayers will finish laying all face brick on the new school building by this evening. By week’s end all concrete will be poured. Roof work and gym roof repairs await waterproofing with roof materials on the way. Steel work completed. metal lathers to begin next Monday. Plastering to start in ten days.
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Elkader Register
Industrial writer warns 30 hour week dangers
A prominent industrial writer calls a 30 hour week a slow national economic suicide and asks readers how they would cope with 30 hours. The piece ends urging readers to use want ads for urgent buying or selling.
Flag Day Commemoration Marks 106th Anniversary
June 14 is Flag Day recalling the 1777 adoption by the Continental Congress of the national emblem. General Washington praised the Stars and Stripes as emblem of liberty and unity, a symbol of hopes, struggles, and progress for over a hundred million people. Citizenship entails loyalty to the flag, while contempt is linked to treason and disorder.
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Continental Congress
Washington
United States of America
United States
White Robin Found Dead Beneath Nest
Waukon reports a rare creamy white robin found dead near its nest tree. The mate and two young robins remain in the nest. The bird appeared in mid April and drew broad attention before its death with undetermined cause.
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Waukon
Allamakee
Middle West
Republican & Standard
Brookings cites 1936 publicity spending by federal government
The Brookings Institution reports that the federal government paid more than a half million for publicity work during 1936. High priced publicity agents received the money and newspapers donated the space.
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the Echo
The
Brookings Institution
Echo Office Offers Recipe and Filing Cards
A clipped notice mentions a sale or offering of recipe and filing cards at the Echo Office with a price of ten canta per hundred. A quote follows contrasting three professions with a sharp, pessimistic thought about human weakness and folly.
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Echo
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