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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1940
Page
1
The Elgin Echo published weekly in Elgin Iowa under R P Strauch is listed as second class mail matter with entry in Fayette County postal records.
Obituaries and society notices in the church and school columns are listed with standard advertising rates. The item notes that admissions apply to events and that such notices appear in regular rate space.
A 1940 squib reflects on flattery and mock nicknames for a high school boxing match crowd. It mixes quips, jokes, and cartoons about politics, everyday life, and social observations, noting readers clipping the column and sharing witty lines from the community.
The Eastern Stars plan a box social at the Masonic hall tomorrow night as electric lights near arrival. C Miller & Sons have poles installed from Clermont toward the city and wiring soon to be completed. A Rock Island train wreck near Gladbrook killed fifty and injured many. S Halstenson narrowly escaped. Ernest Grimm injured and hospitalized in Iowa City. Others include births, visits, and local social notes about Ada Schori, the A S S C club, and Frank Greenley’s new drag.
The 1939 and 1938-38 accident data show motor vehicle fatalities around 32,600 with home accident deaths near 32,000. Nonfatal injuries reach about 8.8 million and total economic loss around 3.3 billion dollars. The author urges a safety consciousness and notes 26 states reduced accidents in 1939, calling for nationwide effort to prevent crashes and fatalities.
Plain guidance on four mail classes defines first class as hand or typewritten matter with limited exclusions, second class as publications admitted into the mails, third class as mailable matter up to 8 ounces with certain exclusions, and fourth class as over 8 ounces parcel post with some exceptions. It emphasizes simple wording and distinctions among classes.
Whiteside County Illinois supervisors move to curb relief fraud requiring able bodied men to show monthly honest employment efforts with at least five names of potential employers. They will verify claims while most relief recipients stay unaffected, but a few may face stricter eligibility. An exclusive CFI photo features Easter corsage trends with yellow roses and burnt orange freesia.
A view of the unfinished Grand River Dam near Disney Oklahoma shows work stopped by Gen Leon Phillips who says the $20 million hydro project intrudes on state rights. The governor placed the area under martial law with National Guardsmen overseeing the site and directed the Attorney General to sue to block completion.
A newly discovered comet named Juriot Achmarof Bassel was sighted by three observers and has been reported at Greenwich Observatory. The object is visible after sunset midway between Tapetla and Algol.
A rare white coyote was observed recently in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, signaling a notable wildlife sighting for the region and park authorities to record. The report notes the animal’s unusual coloration and confirms the sighting by park visitors.
The Latin expression ecce homo means behold the man and stems from Pilate presenting Christ with the crown of thorns to the Jews, illustrating its use in religious and historical contexts.
A note on Hawaiian literature noting its long period of oral tradition and how much of it survived only in memories and the poetry from priests, highlighting the shift to writing in the last generations.
Postmaster Geo M Taylor foresees a record demand as the Frances E Willard commemorative stamp is issued March 28. He and Mrs Ida B Wise present the first sheet to the W C T U leader. Also, a New York plumbers conference notes that 95 percent of the world's bathtubs are in America.
The widest race track in the United States still in use is at Sara tooa where the inaugural Meeting was sold on August 2 1864.
Hikers on the Appalachian Trail traverse the border between North Carolina and Tennessee for many miles along the Smoky Mountain crest. The route follows the ridge in the scenic range, with hikers enjoying distant vistas and rugged terrain.
A brief note stating that all planets revolve in the same direction around the sun, reflecting a basic astronomy fact. The article references the consistent orbital motion of major planets and their shared prograde orbit.
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