Want Ads Rates and Services at Echo Shop Elgin
Public notices and classified items outline want ad rates up to 25 words for 25 cents per insertion. Over 26 words, 1 cent per word. Additional weekly handling fee for replies. Telephonic orders accepted with payment before month end. Oleg a Notice offers harness oiling and repair at Geo. N. Schor Produce Station West Elgin. Also listings for paper, office supplies, milling corn offers from Weibe Mill Co Elgin. Echo subscription agency promotes magazine club offers and remittance records.
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Want Ad
Ada
Sun dogs and mock suns described in atmospheric observations
An 19th century note explains sun dogs as parhellions of the sun's disc, appearing along the sun's horizon bands or haloes. They form near the sun at one to four intersections, rarely all at once, and may seem to fall away from the luminary. Locally they are called sun dogs or mock suns.
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Echo Office
Change of Address Rules For Echo Subscribers
Echo subscribers must notify the subscription department promptly of address changes. Under new postal laws newspapers must pay postage due for notices of address changes furnished by the post office. Delays or failure to deliver remain a problem. the plan is to send advance change of address notices.
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Echo
Legislative Appropriation Passes in House
The House approved the legislative appropriation bill funding salaries for senators representatives capitol police architect and grounds along with library and library services totaling 23 204 563 for the year ending June 30 1907. The bill includes 175 000 for books in the congressional library for the adult blind. The District of Columbia tax and spending details are noted with US contributions and local expenses. The Senate may alter the measure and a conference will determine final terms.
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House
Capitol
Bia
Congressional Library
Government Printing Office
War Department
Navy Department
Legislative Branch
War and Navy Departments
United States
Congress
District of Columbia
Board of Supervisors
United States Treasury
Washington
Senate
Clarification on Iowa Old Age Pensions Policy
A letter explains the federal match for Iowa pensions, noting the federal contribution doubles the state payout per pension but may be used to increase the number of pensions rather than raise existing amounts. The author argues it is better to add another $14 pensioner than to give one recipient $28 while another gets nothing.
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Iowa
Towa
Debates and Pearsons Printing Shop Highlight Values
The author notes senators and representatives speak at length and that most legislation is shaped in committees rather than debates. He cites calm reasoning over oratory, then recalls Pear sons Printing Shop at 519 Eleventh Street established in 1805 famed for printing Supreme Court decisions and never leaking them, valuing honor over money.
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Eleventh Street
Pearson's
Pearson
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Stock Exchange
Pearson’s
Are 435 Members Too Many In Congress
A parliamentary reflection argues that 435 House members are needed to match large U S constituencies. It notes each congressman serves about 277000 constituents and that reducing numbers would increase workloads, contrasting with the English Commons’ 615 members servicing similar populations.
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House of Representatives
House of Commons
Congress
District of Columbia voting rights and governance noted
The District of Columbia is governed by Congress and shares the same territory as Washington. Residents lack voting rights, a situation dating back decades with failed attempts at reform. Public debt is cleared and scandals are avoided, yet about 500,000 people remain deprived of representation in government.
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District of Columbia
Congress
Washington
Bees Trigger Arrest After Hive Stampede In Hodonin
Bees swarmed and attacked thieves at Hodonin in Southern Moravia after they broke into a Tallway official’s house and fled with sacks of valuables. One culprit toppled a beehive during escape, and police quickly arrested three men whose faces were visibly swollen the next day.
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Hodonin
Moravia
Tallway
Origin of the name Petre derived from water walking
The origin of the name petcel for the group of brits is traced to their habit of walking on water. Saint Peter is recorded to have walked on water, providing the etymology for the term.
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Petre
Petcel
St. Peter
Many Cripples in Washington Report
A writer describes the sight of numerous legless and crutchbound men in Washington near Pennsylvania Avenue. He recalls passing three or four crutch users per block and notes several cripples selling papers, including a man with one leg amputated above the knee.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fred Biermann
The Word Ignoramus in English Law History
The term ignoramus denotes an indictment endorsement by a grand jury when a case is not sent to a jury, a usage now obsolete. Historical satire and pamphlets from the seventeenth century popularized ignoramus jury and ignoramus Whig as political phrases.
The Portuguese Empire’s Global Reach Expanded
The Portuguese empire once spanned oceans, forging trade routes, colonies, and cultural exchanges across continents. From Asia to Africa to the Americas, its maritime power shaped early global commerce and geopolitics for centuries.
Elgin Residents Share Visits After Illness Recovery
Mrs H 8 Steele is up after a extended illness. Visitors include Mrs Elmer Benson and Amy Lou Yorkelson with Mrs Gle Torkel Sot, plus gatherings with Elgin families at the Gilson and Krueger homes. Ida Lindsteadt returns to Cleveland after visiting relatives, while Frederick and Gilson households hosted callers.
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H. 8. Steele
Elmer Benson
Amy Lou Yorkelson
Gle Torkel
Ida Lindsteadt
Cleveland
Ohio
William Krueger
Community News Tips From The Echo Desktop
The Echo invites readers to send news items and general happenings from the town and nearby communities. Cooperation and reports from residents are welcomed and appreciated to help publish local information.
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Echo
Auction Candle Tradition Described in Old London Practice
A fragment recounts an ancient London custom where ships’ gate sold by candlelight ended with the last bid before the candle went out. The excerpt mentions a woman returning home with kin after days in West Union with her daughter and family.
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West Union
Mrs. Frederick
London
Beers Fail Picnic Bottle Alcohol Limit Test
Chemists in Des Moines found several picnic beers exceeded the 4 percent alcohol limit, with 4.04 percent being the highest. Perry Griffin, 24, a former Adonis, Mo., pastor, and his sister-in-law Madge Copeland, 21, are jailed in Harrisonville, Mo., on banditry charges across three states. Griffin’s wife, mother of his three children, said she might forgive him, though he questions the Lord’s forgiveness.
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Des Moines
Perry Bugeen Criffin
Adonis
Madge Copeland
Harrisonville
Griffin
Weather proofs and witty quips in a dry era
A playful column blends a party quip about nip and tuck with a tongue in cheek defense of Mule-Hide roofs rain or shine. It wittily notes weather logic and urges readers to check prices while name dropping Mrs Cohen and Mrs Goldberg in a lighthearted domestic vignette.
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Chearmant
Rawleigh
Clayton
West Wk
Winneshiek
Dept
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Ill
Geo. N. Schor
Dette
Geo. N. Sehori
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Biermann News Letter
Sceme
Contess
Pearson's Printing Shop
Stanley Hanson
Kenneth Evans
Homer Dill
Lew Graver
H. B. Gilson
Carl Borchardt
le Roy Thomas
Wilbert
Richard Krell
Muscatine
Edward Kruege
Wm. G. Frederick
George Gilson
Harry
Donald Gilson
H. B. Gil
L. S. Hutchinson
Elgin State Bank
Henry H. Wolf, M. D
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Schori & Easter
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