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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1932
Page
2
Rev. H. C. Rundell leads Sunday school at 10 and morning worship at 11. Junior and choir practice Saturday at 7 30 pm. Ladies' club served dinner last Thursday in the church basement.
Rev C L Randall leads evening worship at 8 pm with 7 pm service. Prayer meeting Thursday at B A Jennings home. Official board meets Friday at W F Moore. Harvester's Band meets Saturday afternoon. Home Missionary Society meets March 16 with Mrs J S Moore hosting. Program committee includes Mrs 8 M Jennings Mrs Adolph Weber and Mrs AHred Johnson. Lunch by Mrs J Moore Mrs W F Moore and Mrs C L Randall starts at 5 pm for the public.
Mary Kennedy Bernedine Raftia were absent part of last week due to illness. Third grade has eleven students with Marjorie and Ray Jr Herwig joining Monday. Honor rolls show multiple perfect spelling days and high scores across grades four through six.
A collage of aphorisms on truth and society appears, ending with Irene Castle McLaughlin telling an animal story about a dog named Moreover. The witty exchange features a colored gentleman recalling a biblical line about wounds and a white man’s remark. The piece blends humor and moral quips with a Chicago homeless-dog aid anecdote.
Special guests were chosen by a Mooresville girl for her party. Her mother guided her to invite friends, but the child decided to invite Santa Claus and Jesus, choosing the two best known figures instead.
A publicity engineer for a New York hotel publicizes a quirky concept. The hotel supposedly includes cavities for used razor blades where guests drop blades to a symbolic sink into the building. The feature invites guests to end their shave and imagine a lasting, far posterity sensation.
Indianap olis News reports Dr. William Bowie of the United States coast and geodetic survey asserts water has fallen on earth for at least 1.5 billion years. He notes oldest sedimentary rocks around 1.1 billion years old could form only with running water washing sediments from sand surfaces.
In a charming family moment Mary Jane misidentifies two visitors, noting one tall and one short and quipping that they resemble the comic pair Te It Mutt and Jeff. The dialogue captures a playful, old time humor from a motherly greeting.
Auttie the Hat Girl says tips from customers vary with the average man giving about a quarter. She notes patrons who ask how much she earns typically offer a quarter, reflecting the custom of tipping in her trade.
Tourist Moonted.
The passage discusses beauty standards and a claim that a certain defect should be avoided. It mentions the Passion Plays, noting the Oberammergau festival as a notable annual event in Bavaria. It also describes a laborious gold beating process using 28 carat gold sheets and parchment, requiring hours of work.
The article recalls John M. Niles urging stamp use in the United States after its 1844 adoption, noting England’s earlier push and Congress’s lack of printing provisions. It reflects on the broader idea of giving as imaginative sympathy and personal response, citing Weinan's Home Companion.
A Boston Herald excerpt reflects on moral education beyond books, praising amiability, civic duty, and life skills as essential to the “good fight.” It weighs literacy against practical virtue and the value of common sense in guiding right from wrong.
A brief fragment quoting Pliny the Elder on human limits and dependence on teaching. The text notes that man cannot speak walk or eat without instruction, and that he can only weep in response to nature, attributed to Pliny.
A pink and silver brocade slipper features a tiny vamp yoke of gold and silver kid with gold and silver makie. The piece is described with vivid color and texture imagery, mentioning honeydew melon and garlic rubic as decorative notes from Calgary Alberta.
A venerable bald cypress at Santa Maria del Tula in Mexico is regarded as the world’s oldest tree, with an estimated age near six thousand years.
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