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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1924
Page
7
Thursday publication notes indicate local ads and columns available for insertion at Elgin post office. Entries emphasize reach and display ads with rates and deadlines to sponsor local notices and announcements.
A June 26 1924 local column records visits from Clermont to Elgin and West Union residents, business trips to Cedar Rapids and Rochelle, hospital stays, farming notes, and social happenings. Mentions Munsingwear ads, various residents like Max Thoma and Miss Flossie Kiple, and a public sale notice. Several small items describe weather, jobs, and community events with names of local families and towns.
The Detroit News notes Frederick County Maryland near Washington has developed a thriving goldfish farming sector. About 85 farmers supply the national market, attributing success to local water, vegetation, and climate factors. The industry has grown markedly over 25 years with practices including pond fertilization and seasonal pasture grasses. Ohio Iowa and Indiana are said to have a few similar farms.
Mexico acts as a major source of staple foods for the United States including coffee cotton rice sugar tobacco garbanzos and tomatoes. The tomato industry centers in Sinaloa Fuerte River Valley and southern valleys with exports to the U S. Sixty five cars of cantaloupes crossed the border in 1921 22 season. Grapefruit thrives in Sonora Yaqui valleys with similar climate to California and dates figs grapes bananas and alligator pears are grown in Lower California. The alligator pear is noted as a chief diet item for the common people.
A magistrate questions a constable about the speed of a defendant in a speeding case. The constable, with comic reluctance, admits he did not see the motorist until he was already past, unable to provide a precise speed.
A quoted critique from Edith Sellers in The Atlantic paints lower middle class French women as uncomplaining and inclined to hide poverty while focusing on grievances, with the closing of convents being a notable exception and a lack of public distress.
A British artist long famed as Turner’s equal is recalled through John Martin's Biblical canvases. Lord Lytton hailed him as an original genius, and Ruskin praised his influence on Protestant taste. His works toured Europe and America, inspiring engravings for gift books and homes.
A man gazes proudly at the engagement ring he placed three days earlier. The woman replies with a cutting remark that friends admired the ring more than she did, noting several recognized it.
They studied a picture of a woman from Elizabethan times and debated the attire. A passerby quipped about the collar compared to another garment. The group then moved on to inspect royal china.
An ad offers a Lennox hot air furnace with new grates and fire pot for inquiry at Echo Office. A garbled project outlines a Great Bridge across Sydney harbor, claiming six years of work, a livable elevated structure, rail and highway capacity, and a projected cost of 9 million dollars with a ferry displacement.
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