Want Ad Rates and Local Feeds Mentioned
Rates for want ads: up to 25 words cost 25 cents per insertion. 26+ words at 1 cent per word. Handling charge 10 cents per week if replies go to offices. Cash with order. telephones allowed but pay before month end. Monthly billing incurs 10 cents per line. Chick starters by Bruce's Green Mill and International at Hunsberger Schori West Elgin. Dot: Earth appears vast yet is a small point in the solar system.
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Want
Bel Imade
Bruce's
Green Mill
Hunsberger & Schori
West Elgin
How an Iowa country editor views Congress
An Iowa editor reflects on Congress and President Roosevelt era advisers Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and Marvin McIntyre. He lauds Howes devoted service, recounts Howe’s illness and care by Roosevelt, and notes Howe’s pivotal role as secretary and adviser in difficult times.
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Iowa
Congress
Howe
Louis McHenry Howe
Roosevelt
State Senate of
New York
Marvin McIntyre
Colonel Howe
Franklin Roosevelt
White House
War on mood urged as unity and patience urged
The letter notes rising income tax receipts for the first fifteen days of March 1985 versus 1934, claiming improving conditions. It cites AFL reports of more employment and broad financial optimism, and argues momentum toward prosperity may come with patience. It discusses House versus Senate rules, star routes bidding in Iowa, and urges reasonable pay and selection by civil service. Fred Biermann signs off.
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American Federation of Labor
House
Senate
House of Representatives
Iowa
Post Office Department
Relief program urges work for those on aid in Fayette county
Spring opens new jobs and the Fayette county relief office urges all recipients to seek employment full or part time. The county director Harriet M. Campbell asks employers to cooperate by offering work and reporting refusals. After March 15 farm laborers on relief switch to direct relief to free time for farm work.
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Towa
County Relief Office
Harriet M. Campbell
Fayette County
West Union
Oelwe
Oelwein
Early Seeded Small Grains Yield Best This Year
Twenty five states share in increased farm income in January versus last year. Exports of farm products run little more than half pre war, though slightly above a year ago. Recommend soil lime and re seeding with alfalfa red clover sweet clover and alsike. For acid soil use red clover and alsike. Willow trees for erosion control should be trimmed and renewed with new sprouts. Six inch stump left to sustain roots. Green tips used for transplanting. 18 inch cuttings root in damp gully soil.
Real estate specials near Clermont and Elgin
A класси ad listing 86-100 acres outside Clermont on a gravel road with a modern nine room brick house, brick basement, barn, granary, shop, two garages and utilities. 33 acres of productive land with modern buildings on Gunder road. another nine room brick residence in Clermont with two full lots near school and church. Also a note on Mark Twain and Barbara Hutton fortunes, and Philadelphia teachers health data.
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Clermont
Gunder Road
Grether Realty Exchange
Elgin, Ions
Port Isabel angler reels 461 pounds of trout and 98 of redfish
C C Richardson of Port Isabel Texas says he caught 461 pounds of trout and 98 pounds of red fish with a pole and line in four hours critics doubt the feat likening it to using a shovel or fork yet it underscores bold claims in fishing lore
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C. C. Richardson
Port Isabel
Texas
Address change notice for Echo subscribers urged
Echo urges subscribers to notify the subscription department of address changes promptly. Under new postal laws newspapers must pay postage due for notices of address changes furnished by the post office. Delays and failed deliveries are noted. advance change of address is recommended.
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Echo
Subscription Department
Lerch and Johnson Couple wed in Winneshiek county church
Anna Marie Lerch daughter of Ern Lerch Elkader and Elmer Alfred Johnson son of Mr and Mrs John Johnson West Union were married on Saturday March 9 at a small church near Eldorado Winneshiek county. The bride wore a blue dress and matching accessories while the groom wore a blue suit. They plan to live on a farm near Eldorado.
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Anna Marie Lerch
Ern Lerch
Elkader
Elmer Alfred Johnson
John Johnson
West Union
Winneshiek County
Eldorado
Pension tax figures and delinquency deadlines set
Old age pension tax payments to date at two dollars per person equal the 1.00 rate payments made last year, with the same number of days before delinquency. It is estimated that $2,100,000 will be available for pension expenditures between July 1985 and July 1936. Persons who evade the tax for three years are barred from benefits.
Body of Glair Robison Found After River Drowning
The body of 26 year old Glair Robison was recovered from the Tennessee river more than a week after his drowning. Relatives were notified early this week and funeral services are planned for Friday afternoon in Greeley Iowa.
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Glair Robison
Tennessee River
Greeley
Iowa
Florence and marriage in the judge’s ear
A sharp line questions a husband’s impulses while a jibe about Florence’s arrest for a fan dance ends with the judge letting her go. The quip contrasts romantic willingness with a lenient legal verdict, highlighting social judgment and mischief.
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Florence
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