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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1931
Page
3
The text gives cooking tips for spinach with precise timing, salt use, and noncovering methods. It also advises avoiding repetitive flavors, suggests tomatoes as a contrast in meals, and encourages knowing package sizes and weights to gauge servings and value across canned and bottled goods.
A flurry of social visits fills Cheery Valley as Edward and Fred Butikofer and relatives spent Sunday at the Jake Butikofer home. Adelia Larson stays with her aunt, Frank Christen hosts a card party, and numerous households host or attend quilting circles, dinners, and family gatherings across St. Olaf area towns.
The term Disablo refers to a discount charged for cashing foreign or depreciated currency and for abrasion in metallic currency.
Information from the U S Department of Agriculture covers feeding sitting hens with hard grains and green feed when confined, watering, and grit. It notes 1930 forest fire damage at about five percent of the prior year with one third suppression costs, and discusses brood mares, gradual diet changes for spring work, and the use of battery brooders for poultry, including their setup and claimed advantages.
The article notes that male parrots are typically more talkative than females and highlights a growing need for veterinarians. It mentions expansion in veterinary work despite horses being displaced by machines, and reports acres reclaimed in Utah after prairie dog eradication. Pilots with radio equipped planes relay forest fire reports to fire dispatchers.
Capetown-bound German explorers report Lake Ngami once a deep basin about twenty miles by ten miles now much shallower due to rat activity blocking rivers into the lake.
Clermont residents share dinners and visits with friends and relatives across Postville and nearby towns. Local families welcome guests, discuss hospital visits and new births, while the Ladies' Aid plans March meetings and funds for a free public library at the Farmers' Saving Bank.
A fielded entry warns children to avoid hitching sleds to moving cars and highlights the dangers of thin or rotten ice. It stresses that cars can brake while sleds cannot and notes drivers may not see trailing sleds. It cautions against unsafe winter water recreation and urges parental supervision.
Mrs. Arthur Patterson hosted the Ladies Aid Society last Thursday afternoon. Neighbors and relatives, including the Boyle and Lyons families, visited at various homes over the weekend. Herman Boyer was elected school director as district voters sent in ballots Monday. Marian Patterson fell ill after a smallpox vaccination and returned home for a few days. Several residents were noted ill or traveling to Hawk Eye and Oelwein for visits or appointments.
The article details amendments to the federal oleomargarine law requiring a ten cent tax on all colored oleomargarine. It notes lawmakers Thornburg Thurston Brookhart supported passage, with praise for their roles in advancing the bill. The change aims to ban palm oil use in yellow oleomargarine without tax and curb unfair competition.
The Milwaukee railway considers a new plan to improve freight service by inviting Postville draymen to bid for delivering goods directly to customers homes. The move targets competing trucks that tout doorstep delivery with no extra drayage. Most favor railways over mobile trucks, but rails must match speed and price to win business.
English Lawyers' Guild Lincoln Inn of Court in London is one of four great inns of court in England. It traces its name to land once owned by the Earl of Lincoln during Edward I's reign. It became one of the court inns soon after his death, in 1310.
Robbers stole a fourteenth century marble Virgin statue from a church in Ursel near Boissons France and left a plaster copy in place. The theft remained undiscovered for several days.
A brief reflective note argues that morality often masks inhibitions and desires, with people misusing codes and standards to justify actions. The piece cites increased personal satisfaction as the ultimate justification behind moral posturing.
A fragment notes a Persian wedding custom where a bonfire features prominently in the marriage ceremony. The text suggests learning from past practices to gauge future outcomes and contrasts construction with wrecking crews.
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