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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1929
Page
6
The column compiles varied local snippets from March reports. Mentions of the Powell family moving to a new farm, visits by Ed Bauder’s clan, family illnesses, jurors for the Oelwein term, a bank merger, and a tree of personal milestones. Also notes civic chatter about jail radio access, weddings, a home party, and a lighthearted dig at radio adverts.
Sunday services at 10 and 11 am with Bible day program and Bible distribution collection. evening English service at 8 pm. Thursday prayer meeting at 8 pm. Friday choir rehearsal at 9 am. Fayette county Sunday school institute at Baptist church in Delwain. Rev. Ph Lauer to depart Monday morning for Chicago to attend General Missionary committee session of German Baptist churches.
M. E. Church notes worship hour at 6 a.m. and church school at 11 a.m. Everyone welcome. Fayette County Iowa 88 notice cites Lillian Shepard Burgess petition to manage or mortgage jointly owned property against W. L. Burgess due to abandonment. Case seeks legal decree. appearance required by April 2, 1929. Attorney A C Peterson for plaintiff.
Colonial Recollection notes Baybrook the first Haglish settlement in Connecticut founded by Massachusetts colonists on November 10, 1685. It mentions Saybrook as the home of David Bushnell who devised a submarine torpedo and "American Turtle" diving boat.
The text instructs taking a top or dawn portion of a rubber plant to induce branching, then placing the cutting in light and continuing normal care. It emphasizes letting the branch point fork and keeping standard plant care after propagation.
Christianity arrived in Russia under Prince Vladimir near the end of the tenth century, marking a pivotal shift in religion, culture, and statehood for the Kievan realm and its successors.
Mrs. Mary Ann Butler of 62 Adams Street Portland Maine, eighty two, testifies that Munyon's Rheumatism Remedy relieved her joint pains and colds and that she has been free of rheumatic trouble for over ten years. She praises Munyon's Remedies and urges others with aches to try them.
Agricultural notes discuss soil and crop timing, bamboo flowering cycles, and lice control in poultry before hatching. Beekeeping cautions address cool weather hive opening and tar paper insulation. A section covers grazing, poisonous insecticides, and large arsenic use in Paris green and related products. Tractor costs on New York farms, alfalfa grading, hog cholera immunization, ever bearing strawberries, and street paving damage from snow chains in Iowa are also noted.
Muscatine Journal notes a station recently promised an automobile giveaway with lucky numbers and free chances. Federal rules treat such announcements as lottery promotions and can bar publications and impose heavy fines. Radio restrictions appear unclear and vary by regulation.
A November 9 1872 blaze in Boston destroyed more than eight buildings with damages around 80000 dollars. Within two years the devastated district was completely rebuilt leaving no visible ruin.
A fragmented note questions pessimism and allusion turning sour in a cryptic, stylized line. It reads like a playful or garbled aside, offering little concrete fact or named entities from the source. Further context would clarify whether this is a literary fragment or a satirical remark.
A farmer troubled by trespassers during nutting season seeks help from a botanist. He posts a notice stating that Corylus avellana nuts abound and warn that all entrants do so at their own risk. The tactic succeeds and the farm is left undisturbed for the season.
An old term Oyez meaning hear ye or attend was used by court criers to announce proclamations. The word, often recited three times, signaled attention before proceedings began.
The text notes Solomon's wisdom surpassing all the children of the East. It records that he spoke three thousand proverbs and produced one thousand and five songs.
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