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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1937
Page
3
A notice records the entry of a second class rail matter at the Clermont post office in Fayette County Iowa. The filing reflects administrative handling by postal authorities and indicates the material suitability for standard rail classification.
After celebrating a birthday, two young men left in separate cars and crossed paths on a neighborhood route. They collided at an intersection while speeding and drunken, then identified each other and prepared to argue. The writer urges safety: if you must drink, don’t drive. if you must drive, don’t drink.
A Twentieth Century Fund study reports 175,000 separate tax agencies with power to levy and collect taxes. The piece notes persistent overlap and double taxation, since once a tax unit finds a lucrative income source it cannot be easily removed.
American mass production has placed 22,000,009 passenger cars on U S roads equal to three per four families. France has one car per twenty persons, UK one per twenty three, Italy one per one hundred. Plutarch quote about bounties linked to government liberty.
The porcupine defends itself by charging backward to impale foes with long hindquarter quills. Quills embedded in an animal can be pulled out, yet the porcupine cannot detach its own quills.
Fred Biermann warns readers that another world war would ruin trade, cause casualties, and bring national distress. He urges preemptive calm and warns neutrality laws may fail, urging senators and congressmen to act with moral courage to avoid catastrophe.
A reader discussion notes Congressman Ludlow of Indiana proposes an amendment to require a U S popular vote on any declaration of war except in invasion. The writer asks for the Fourth Town district voters opinions and expresses a personal inclination in favor, inviting public input.
Edouard Victor Michel Izac, a Democrat from San Diego, Calif., is among the new congressmen. Born in Cresco on December 18, 1891, he is reputed to be the only person to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor and later be elected to Congress for World War I service. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Germany.
A recent physical exam shows the president in excellent health. He is six feet one and a half inches tall and weighs about 185 and a half pounds. The release describes him as a remarkably fine specimen from the waist up and notes he gets his...
A short time ago Robert S. Allen of Pearson & Allen, authors of Nine Old Men, stood on the Capitol steps handing copies of the attack on Supreme Court justices to Congress members and others free of charge. A note on longevity cites a Washington woman who died at 103 and her sister at 140, suggesting lineage influences lifespan.
There is indication of a prolonged session as many appropriation bills pass but most other legislation remains stalled. Committees including agriculture have several bills to move on farm tenancy marketing agreements soil conservation sugar quotas and farm loan measures. Other panels are crowded and tensions may rise before adjournment.
The European timber wolf invades French villages during severe winters and preys on babies. The coyote, a smaller wolf, shows family cunning. Usually two coyotes work together to isolate and exhaust a deer before pulling it down for a feast.
The word Colophon refers to an inscription at Heradet 8 that announced print details, later replaced by the title page. It derives from an ancient Greek city famous for cavalry, and the name came to mean the finishing stroke in Latin usage.
The pony express carried letters from St Joseph to Sacramento in ten days for five dollars, the fastest service of its time. It halved the travel time versus the stage coach, until the railroad displaced the pony express after eighteen months of operation.
The passage extols Trinidad as rich in racial and tropical color, noting its South American jungle wildlife, towering cliffs, great rivers, the Maraccas waterfall and Blue basin, and the famed Pitch Jake.
The text states that many nations contributed settlers and identifies Great Britain as the mother country of the original colonies, emphasizing Europe and others as sources of settlers.
A drug to keep sleepy persons awake is being used in medical treatments with pronounced success. It is called benzedrine. Advancement: The man who is fitted to go higher will be faithful where he is.
Two women about twenty five, posing as buyers at the Warner and Hoover dry goods store in West Union, passed a $10 bill to a saleswoman and staged a series of small transactions to regain the bill and the initial change. Sheriff Nehring notified other officers and merchants but no clue was found.
A column notes an elephant trunk can lift a ton yet pull a blade of grass. WPA engineer Harry Bevers moves to Hawkeye while keeping an office at the Payette county courthouse. Previously he served Allamakee Clayton and other counties. Also advised is not to pour oil from a spouted can into a stove to avoid explosions. Ed Landswerk of Decorah comments on daily burn risks. He recovers from hand and foot infection and now faces a dog bite after stepping on glass weeks ago.
Farmers recalling livestock slipping on ice last month lose faith in the saying As independent as a hog on ice. A Sauk Rapids Minnesota hotel sign humorously declares We ain't got no night clerks we find yourself a room and it to bad. See you in the morning Scribblings.
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