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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1932
Page
4
Want ads outline pricing per word and per insertion with 10 cent per week handling for office delivery. Listings include For Sale items from Elgin area, found items, trades, and subscriptions offers, with contact names and locations like G. W. Doty Elgin Marshall Helms Elgin Louis Martie Postville and Elgin Echo.
The Teals, bantams with flying records, include Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal. Green-winged Teal have reddish brown heads and frequent ponds and marshes, nesting on the ground under tall grass and laying five to nine eggs. Blue-winged Teal show gray heads, with females resembling Green-winged females but blue wing coverts, and lay six to ten eggs.
Praise pours in for the state conservation board and its latest members William P. Woodcock Spencer and Mrs. Grace Gilbert King West Union. Gov Turner Benches commendations for appointed leadership with Mrs Henry Frankel named president. The 25 year plan by the conservation commission invites widespread public familiarity as Iowa develops refuges and wildlife management under Jacob Crane with input from Aldo Leopold and seeks federal, county and local cooperation.
A. J. L. Lebeck reports Jan 18 that farmers in Walnut help feed upland game birds. He notes deep snow and poor roads hinder feed delivery. He cites quail numbers, a farmer feeding forty at a corn crib, and a pheasant flock of sixty three. Foxes southwest of the area are depleting rabbits and other game. Lebeck suggests a bounty on foxes.
A humorous essay recalls a king's reckless blood transfusion saga and why country papers keep sending issues past due. It then explains why local editors extend subscriptions as a courtesy, contrasting with city papers and urging readers to pay up to avoid disputes, and ends with a nudge to shop locally.
A Dubuque Clayton county group presented petitions to Highway Commissioner T J O Donnell in Dubuque on Friday. The drive, signed by over 1500 residents, seeks to add a eight mile stretch of No 128 to the primary road system and will be forwarded at the next state highway commission meeting.
Echo Want Ad notes two new harness sets added to stock at Fellers Hardware West Elgin with price savings. A lighthearted item mentions jokes from Tad and local tele phone workers at West Union. Auxiliary World War veterans party attended by several local women at Independence state hospital with a brief mention of travel to Oelwein.
A mix of satirical lines about sales pitches and domestic life plus a classroom quip set includes a roofing salesman checklist and a joke about a wife ad. Other bits joke about tablets Gaul used, a roommate accusing a kiss, and a professor asking for ancient appliance examples. A prompt to buy oak flooring now promises low cost and durability.
The paragraph suggests replacing tires with goods like clothes or shoes or automobiles or furniture or building materials to reflect other industries. It notes retail stocks are low while consumer goods are used heavily but will wear out. Babson argues that once retailers see commodity prices bottom out and stocks replenish, industry will revive and wages will boost buying power, lifting the economy toward a future peak. The tone is cautiously pessimistic about the near term yet optimistic about improvements ahead.
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