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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1932
Page
4
For sale ads detail broilers corn chicks and a Coleman gas stove with prices and contact sells through Elgin Iowa and area papers. Listings include hardware and sales books from McCasky Crosby Wilsh and Elgin Echo Office with payment terms and weekly charges.
The Detroit News recounts a tale of brain body signaling and a bank examiner visiting a new bank. A president questions a bank examiner about overdrafts that vanished between queries, highlighting how perception and data may diverge. The piece concludes by remarking that careful advertising yields buyers.
The article details the channel bass, its size, color range, and behaviors, noting May to June spawning and schooling fry, plus pond propagation. It also reports J. G. Wyth’s 25 acre Cedar Falls donation for a bird refuge and wildlife studies, with plans for a field man at Iowa State College. It mentions Georgia quail economics and wildlife impacts from Mississippi River high water, plus the McGregor Wildlife School, August 1–18, with local organizers and committee members.
Echo Want Ad column notes John Fath and others attending the N E Iowa Masonic Fellowship meeting in Guttenberg on Tuesday. Butter storage myths, farm weather damage, and local crime updates sprinkle a bustling page with bonds to 4 H forestry and Guernsey wool pool prices.
The bill imposes a five percent tax on soap drawing protests from readers who say it adds hardship to households already challenged by cleanliness. The Waverly Independent laments the tax and questions its impact on mothers pushing youngsters to wash regularly.
A humorous collection of brief exchanges and one liners. A pompous doctor mocks wall plaster while a workman counters with a quip about spades. A church bulletin teases a new organist. A mother jokes about Capone and dry law. A bank clerk and Mrs Bright riff on joint accounts. A teacher and pupil end with a quip about ice and price.
A small Elgin crowd watched Elgin beat Clermont 7 to 1 at the Elgin ball park, evening the year’s series. L J Kiple started for Elgin with Gehring closing, allowing few hits while Clermont pitchers walked many. Box score lists Elgin’s Herrling and Kiple among top hitters, with Clermont’s Paulson driving in their lone run.
A Will Rogers quote stresses the newspaper as a local blessing and keeps readers attached to home news even small items about Jim Jones or a local doctor. The piece endorses preserving local reporting and community-focused stories as essential.
A collage of local items and anecdotes describes Blu-Rib-On Stock Dip at City Drug Store and new Oxkel ordinances for peddlers and health licenses, plus a fable about keeping a bright side. It also recounts tales of misfortune, a man dreaming of the devil, and a dog-chase anecdote from the Waukon Democrat.
Two weeks before his death Captain Dollar addressed a group of youths. He shared his rule for success and long life emphasizing clean habits, moderation in thoughts, plenty of exercise, and most importantly fear God and keep His commandments. He often said work keeps a man in health and health keeps him at work.
A discourse compares paying more for comfort in items like woolen blankets and building materials with choosing cheaper, adequate options. It notes that wise spending occurs in home improvements and stresses asking for what you need, while mixing in a humorous domestic exchange about staying on task and everyday grocers.
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