02 Mar 1933
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1933
Page
1
In Port Gibbon Miag Reveille a Port Gibson source argues that rapid machine progress and material wealth threaten civilization. It calls to refocus on foundational life principles, curb pleasure and greed, restore honest trade, and restore love in the home to keep social, spiritual, and economic life in balance amid scientific advance.
A Merchantville column warns parents about boy trouble and bandit risk. It cites three youths who left Woodbury to become bandits for ten weeks, earning under $15 weekly, and facing jail if caught. The piece urges watchful parenting to curb foolish choices and crime.
A farmers’ group and editors attack the Farm Board and demand drastic government expense cuts and tax relief. They urge rapid repeal of the marketing act and dismiss recent relief plans while criticizing expensive Senate parking facilities in Washington.
A serious accident near a home yard left Wm Wat enpaugh with a broken shoulder joint and torn ligaments after stepping on ice and falling. The town reports several social notes, visits, and upcoming games and elections among local residents and neighboring towns.
In a letter to the Wavkon Democrat, residents from Allamakee and Payette counties criticize Senator Thomas Mullaney for distant country slang about meals and stenographers. They urge focus on real legislature matters and privacy, warning against publicizing names.
At a Postville meeting, Northeast Iowa editors discussed the shift from eight page weekly papers to four page editions due to advertising downturns. Despite a drop in production costs from 12.00 to 10.93 per subscriber, ad revenue loss threatens papers. several have suspended or trimmed publication while urging community support and cooperative publicity. The piece also notes pioneers of the automobile era and mentions gravel road conditions improving after recent maintenance, closing with a tongue in cheek line about home being where Sunday papers are scattered.
Baker Cameron G Graham of Seattle and Mrs D W Stoddard of Anchorage mourn the passing of a longtime educator and lawyer who was born Garnaville Iowa on November 12 1854 and died in Elgin after a life in Iowa Oregon and Alaska. He taught in Elgin and rural schools before establishing a law office in Pok Oregon and living there until his death.
Farmers are urged to test seed and corn, clean weed patches while labor is cheap, and disinfect pens with lye solution. Advice covers feeding cod liver oil for soft shelled eggs, building a strong body reserve for lambing, and rations around oats and legume hay. Corn silage is good for ewes if mold free. Air mail subsidy of 19 million dollars for 1934 is struck from the bill. Democrats pursue self support and contract investigation.
The sheriff announces a sale of 126 shares of Mazurotti Realty Co. stock as property of Mar fristtt Realty Co. Inc. under a special execution. The sale is set for March 28, 1984, at 2 PM in front of the court house door in West Union, with cash on bid. The total due includes principal of 1980.92, attorney fees, costs, and interest at 8 percent from March 24, 1982.
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