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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1926
Page
8
The reader is presented with a dense list of horizontal and vertical crossword clues, numbers marking definitions, and an instruction block explaining how to solve the puzzle. It references various word forms, abbreviations, and dictionary entries, plus notes on how to place letters in white spaces to form two intersecting word directions.
The article surveys St Denis near Paris, detailing its Basilica of St Denis as a cradle of Gothic architecture and royal tombs. It notes historic legends, pilgrim crowds, royal connections including Charlemagne and Napoleon, Mark Twain impressions, and the town’s transport links and population around 75,000.
San Francisco radio, once easing loneliness at sea, now aids navigation. Direction signals from shore stations guide captains with a loop antenna and Sperry-gyra compass, reducing need for log calculations. Time signals from Pacific stations on San Francisco time, accurate to 0.0000083 of a day, let navigators set clocks without port calls.
Mrs Nellie B Stull of Elyria Ohio leads the Widows and Widowers Club of America as national president Her prominence is noted in the 1928 Who's Who in Literature edition published in Liverpool England
Marion Twiey credits daily walking in New York for better health. She says a routine of proper food, rest, and exercise gives her peach bloom complexion and helps prevent skin issues.
New York John Andrus, eighty five and once Minneapolis based, claims wealth cannot retire him. He is described as the world’s richest straphanger who must work daily in the financial district. He travels by subway and says underground travel aids his thinking and keeps him healthy.
In San Francisco and along the Pacific coast civilian pigeon racing grows. Clubs lure soldiers, with 700 to 1,000 birds expected from Pocatello to Oakland. Col. Cowan notes Panama and Ross Field work aim to boost bird equipment for peace and potential wartime use.
Ottawa reports that over one million monuments mark corners of Canada’s western prairie land tract totaling 200 million acres. Nash notes only about 100,000 are modern standard survey posts since 1916. He warns that boundary marks decay as wooden posts age, risking costly restoration if not renewed.
Smyrna Turkey will rise from ruins after Angora government approves reconstruction of the Anatolian port. Plans call for parks public squares amusement centers business buildings dwelling houses theaters stores and warehouses to replace the September 1922 devastation following Mustapha Kemal's entry.
An eminent preacher, once aligned with a church, says he can no longer agree with its doctrines and will become a Jew, join Islam, and a member of the Orthodox church, stating his religious obligations will occupy all his time.
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