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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1933
Page
4
Local want ad details include pricing for up to 25 words at 26 cents, 1 cent per word for each extra word, and a weekly 10 cent handling charge for replies sent to the office. Multiple for sale items list work horses, seed barley, incubator, and other goods with Elgin Iowa references. Community notices mention radio programs and club offers from the Elgin Echo and related publications.
A humorous meditation on modern consumption and waste. The poem contrasts mass production of pins and plates with human appetite and household economy, noting how demand grows even as supply expands. The verse then pivots to women’s changing silhouette and appetite, ending by wondering where all the dishes come from as meals shrink.
Dairy cows remain a strong market for grain while farmers plan spring repairs and field work. A state survey warns Wisconsin land carrying capacity may be dropping as farmers seek home grown dairy rations from legumes, corn, oats and soybeans. Calves fed with oilmeal and tankage win gains at lower cost than linseed meal mixes. Fat native lambs should reach June 20 markets with grading premiums. Dormant orchard spray advisories and inoculation tips for red clover are included. Horses require daily grain feeding to gain fat and shed hair ahead of spring tasks. Pasture improvements via discing reseeding liming and fertilization yield better quality grass for some farms.
The Peppy Pals met Saturday at Helen and Agnes Andersons home with 13 members present. The program included sewing methods, club accessories, and posture talks. Mrs. Clifford Kittleson demonstrated stitches seams and hems, followed by social games. Next meeting at Elizabeth and Lillian Jacobs home.
The schol directors elected in Thyria township on March 13 were: Dist. 1 Fred J. Schneider. Dist. 2 Alton Medberry. Dist. 8 Henry Feller. Dist. 6 Thomas E. Flanagan. Dist. 7 Ole Erickson. Dist. 8 Jease O. Corbin. Dist. 9 M. A. Gage. Special for Friday and Saturday four pounds pork sausage for 25 cents at Patch's Meat Market. Snow over the weekend hampered news gathering as reporters found few items, with residents staying indoors or out of trouble due to the weather.
A collection of reflective, humorous, and moral snippets on manners, Christianity, truth telling, and human foibles. The piece muses on communication, self-improvement, and the hopeful nostalgia of youth, contrasting idealized wishes with everyday faults and social duties.
A report discusses Dr Wallace M Yater of Georgetown University attempting heart substitution in animals. He inverted a heart into another animal while its original heart remained in place. The transplanted heart beat briefly as a secondary pump but disintegrated after a week. The text notes no permanent survival of transplanted vital organs and reflects on the personal nature of vital organs.
The text describes large sums spent on sports admissions and tickets across leagues and levels. It notes 12 million attendees and admissions exceeding 12 million dollars in baseball plus at least 30 million for admissions overall, with 80 million people paying for football tickets and a national football bill around 150 million across college and prep schools.
A weather incident in Battle Creek Michigan struck four sides of a residence while the Ack ley family slept. In the bedroom a smirrer shattered, the front porch received two sets of golf clubs, and the north side lifted the roof an inch. A radio serial was interrupted on another side.
It was 78 years ago that Frank N. Davis of Calala and Isaac A. Johnson of Deering Maine ran the 204 steps of the Bunker Hill monument without stopping or touching the tall After an hour's rest they cut their initials on the Adams cannon and descended the same way on the run.
A fragment describes a patient asking if a medicine helped and a doctor praising the remedy. The text includes dramatic claims of cough relief from three spoonfuls and rheumatism relief from rubbing the mixture into a knee, ending with an implausible note about a “reat we used to clean the aliver.”
A fragmentary note discusses a cinema lesson about dreams. Donna asks what a dream is and seeks guidance on dreams during sleep, while a teacher or figure responds with a concise explanation about dreaming and movie-like nighttime visions.
Bertha and her fiancé keep their engagement secret despite public inquiries. Mattie confirms that the couple tells everyone the engagement is real while privately guarding details.
A fragmentary local notice recounts visits by residents from Elgin Postville and West Union, dinner hosting, and a real estate transfer where Israel Shaffer executors sold the J D Shaffer residence in Elgin to Myrtle O Dell and Hazel Whitford for 2500 dollars. The account mentions scattered family travels and neighborhood gatherings amid damaged OCR details.
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