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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1930
Page
3
Mrs Briggs oversees family meals showing how to make healthier “children’s foods” that appeal to adults. She shares tuna fish loaf with rice, apple pie and sauce, and fruit desserts as quick energy options, stressing planning for balanced meals to benefit Billie Jimmie and siblings.
Mrs. Chris Schweitzer has been ill and confined to bed the past week. Jason Bailey and son William of Arlington visited Volga City, Bailey still with his arm in a sling from a former accident. Celia Martie of the Commercial Hotel staff visited Elgin home folks. Mrs. Lena Benson of Elgin visited her daughter Mrs. Boise Capper. Harry Baldwin on vacation from Postville Bake Shop visiting Elgin with his wife. H D Yack, formerly meat cutter at Frank Schmitz market, resigned and returned to Elgin. Chris Salzgeber helped Frank at odd times and won praise from Postville folks. Town ads urge wants. Town plants spend about 469,939,635 for raw materials. about 500,000,000 comes from Iowa farms. Thos Howard, age 77, bought a new Chrysler. oldest buyer for Torkelson Bros. An old law joke about a man who walked onto railroad tracks and wrote the freight agent about poor service.
In a playful exchange from Pathfinder Magazine and related items in the Louisville Courier-Journal, engagement news turns comic as Sue jokes about engagement and marriage, while other snippets hint at lighthearted queries about spelling bees, sky writers, and peculiar observations.
Weather favors field work as farmers in the Over East district begin seeding wheat and other grains. John Fear reports seeding oats and hay on the Great farm south of town, planning to focus on truck crops like onions, carrots, and potatoes. Local notes mention scarlet fever cases in Fayette county stable, a Fredricksburg druggist jailed for involvement in a farm fire, and community ads urging buying at home to support town growth. The Sumner school board bans married teachers, and Harry Keighan resigns to lead a Carpenter elevator and feed mill project starting April 1.
A New York writer seeks quiet to work and avoids loud streets and construction. A broker pitches free radio with each apartment, implying cheerful noise. The anecdote reflects housing hunt woes from the New York Sun.
Ronald Waggershauser lost his glasses last summer when he dived from a Lake Mendota pier in Wisconsin. Jack Hayward helped search but the glasses were not found. Recently Hayward spotted a shiny object in a muskrat house near the pier and discovered the glasses inside. He retrieved them and returned them to Waggershauser.
Prince Peter of Montenegro, famed for his cooking, crafts an Irish stew using meat fried in butter then simmered with cabbage water, potatoes, and vegetables. He treats cabbage water as stock and wastes no vegetable liquid in the kitchen.
A brief, reflective exchange from Der Brummer in Berlin notes a fair amount of rain this year overall, but a neighbor reports more due to owning more land. The line underscores rural rainfall comparisons and land influence on weather impact.
A terse note from the Boston Transcript questions the tenor of a father's last letter, asserting there was no tenor beyond a fleeting sense, reflecting a clipped, fictional newspaper tone.
A stray line from Stray Stories notes Reginald receiving credit for a bet or engagement ring. The speaker suggests the jeweler also provided something similar, implying a shared theme of compensated promises and witty exchanges in the tale.
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