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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1935
Page
4
Rates for want ads are 25 words or fewer at 25 cents per insertion, over 26 words at 1 cent per word. An extra 10 cents weekly handling charge applies for replies coming to this office. Cash terms with order, telephoned orders allowed but payment due before month end. If billed, 10 cents per line. Echo office advertises spiral note and memo books at 6 cents and stenographer books at 10 cents.
A reader tells of six boys named France Germany England America Japan and Italy who throw stones on a highway. Each keeps stones in his pocket and refuses to discard them, leading to ongoing fights whenever they meet. The tale appears in a Journal of Winston-Salem article.
Typhus killed an estimated three million people in the five years after the war. The disease is carried by body lice and spread through crowded conditions and poor sanitation.
A mammoth tooth weighing over four pounds was unearthed 19 feet underground on the Kane farm west of Emmetsburg by Emmetsburg contractors. Other notes tell of Dr J R Coxe's 57 years in medicine, a Persian cat healed with gold, Marian Clark’s 99th birthday as a War of 1812 widow, Leonard Smith’s bid with a ten dollar note, and a Slater creamery record of 20,335 pounds of butter in one day due to better pasturage and more cows.
Copenhagen customs inspector Vilhelm Tofty, knighted by the king of Denmark, visits his son in Waverly with his daughters on a two month furlough. Julian Dubuque the dog recovers at a clinic after swallowing a chop bone and other items. Lester Curran, a former Mason City man, plans a cattle venture in Australia with 19 head of cattle brought from America to test adaptability there.
A pipe organ in an Alta Iowa church yielded three gallons of alcohol during cleaning. Deacons offered no light on the mystery. Orval Harmening of Tripoli with four other Northwestern University Evans ton Hill orchestra members will tour Germany by bicycle for six weeks this summer. They will earn passage by providing music for entertainment aboard ship.
The author extols American elms with umbrella-shaped crowns forming verdant arches along streets. They argue against pruning after early growth, believing undisturbed trees develop a graceful green umbrella creating striking avenues like New Hampshire Avenue.
A chorus of visitors and family gatherings fills the week’s social column. Mrs R Bird, Mrs Evans, Leo Waithers, Fern Stichl, Mr and Mrs Johnson, and many others are listed with weekend, Sunday, or weekday visits across Oelwein Decorah Elgin Fayette Independence Decorah Decatur area. Nearby trips include Prairie du Chien and Rock Point Resort. a birth announced for Harry Miller’s daughter. and a tongue in cheek note about an apple tree blooming alongside fruit.
A local note recounts a man named Mike rediscovering a buried horse and trying to restore the dirt. Several households share a Sunday picnic at the Evans residence. A West trip to Colorado is planned for Albert Schori and family, while Mabel Frieden leaves county to teach in Floyd schools. Stanley R Bird improves his drug store with new ceiling and wallpaper and plans brighter display space. Echo Want Ad offers to sell.
An Iowa editor recounts a Maryland tale from Alexandria about a warehouse watchman murdered long ago. A life-size figure sits in the window of the warehouse chair where the crime occurred, meant to provoke confession, but no one has ever confessed and the case remains unsolved.
The Clarinda Herald Journal lists breakfast fare of oatmeal toast ham and eggs stewed peaches bread and butter coffee and milk Dinner features roast beef mashed potatoes buttered peas bread and butter and orangeade Supper includes macaroni and tomatoes potato salad bread pudding and orangeade Over two thousand Iowa school children visited Des Moines historical building for tours and studies Edgar R Harlan curator offers museum service covering prehistoric Iowa Indian pioneer agriculture military and naval history with illustrative objects like minerals fossils stone tools ceremonial items wagons and early Iowa newspapers
On the southwest corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 20th Street a large brick mansion once linked to James G Blaine now serves as the headquarters for Morris L Cookie's rural electrification group. The building retains its grand exterior while interior rooms are being painted and repurposed including a self operated elevator.
Mrs Clive Helms traveled to Bloomington Wisconsin on Sunday with Glen Clive and Delbert Brown to visit her parents. Mr and Mrs Boise Capper hosted a visit from Lou Benedict of Cedar Rapids who paused en route to Minneapolis. Postville Herald reports Mrs Fred Biermann and Washington companions drove 1197 miles from Washington DC to Decorah to visit her parents.
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