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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1925
Page
2
Community items from the county line news recount visits and greetings among families in West Union, Clermont, Decorah, and Postville. Social calls, illness updates, a funeral, charitable events, and a youth group meeting are noted along with local business notices and a few travel reports.
100 lb rock salt and ice cream flavors listed. Brick ice cream at Kang City Drug Store. Miss Verne Kniel visited West Union to see her mother. Mrs Kniel shows slight improvement and doctors express encouragement. Flour mill feeds tankage oil meal oyster shell and salt offered. We buy in carloads and quote reasonable prices in assorted quantities. Weiber Mill Company.
A collection of proverbs reflecting stereotypes and racial views about Native Americans. Observations contrast courage, deception, language, and conflict, noting patterns of mistrust between Indigenous peoples and settlers. The tone mirrors 19th or early 20th century cautionary sayings.
A Loachapoka Alabama girl jokes about a beau described in vivid slang of the era. She calls him the porcupine with the biggest shoulders and says he dances well and plays the saxophone like an angel. Her playful appraisal uses lively period diction.
Local notes report on poultry care with a saying that a sick chicken is better killed than risking an epidemic. The section lists prices and suppliers for eggs and poultry in the area. It also covers visiting relatives, household matters, insurance adjustments after a fire, and a notable local horse sale with a five year old gelding weighing 1960 pounds selling for a high price.
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