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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
3
The Clermont Enterprise notes Marjorie Scheel, local editor and member of the Towa Press Association and National Editorial Association, as part of its Thursday morning edition.
The article notes Breen as the sole candidate for the Democratic nomination, discusses Iowa's correctional and budget issues, including a regional cost-per-day patient expense and staff additions, and outlines Attorney General Fred D. Everett's pending decisions on audits of bank receiverships, beer law challenges, and gambling device rulings.
Governor Wilson faces a pivotal choice on whether new evidence could spare Walter H Rhodes from execution for his wife’s murder. The case pits a Democratic dominated supreme court granting a new trial against a Republican dominated court denying a rehearing, both decisions split 6 to 3.
A report covers clemency appeals in a governor race, a life sentence commuted in a death-row context, and multiple local incidents. Included are tales of a toddler safe from a fall, a surprising leap year baby, a Cedar Rapids committee race, a birth in an ambulance en route to Iowa City, and various small-town mishaps from ambulance births to runaway horses and a dog bite incident.
A 100 pound muzzleloader shotgun brought by Hernan Cortez in 1523 is exhibited at the Centennial museum of the Texas college of mines in El Paso. The weapon features a 35 millimeter bore and dates to the Mexican War of Independence from 1810 to 1812.
Clermont residents shared Easter weekend visits with relatives and friends from nearby towns including Waterloo Waterloo Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids Minneapolis and Cresco. Notable travelers include Norman Erickson returning to Coe College Cedar Rapids and Elizabeth Priest visiting Lycurgus before resuming studies. extended stays involved families of Frisbie Larson Koland and Kaveny among others.
The article notes cosmetics were first used in Egypt during 3500 to 3000 BCE, marking the earliest known adoption of cosmetic practices in history. This ancient period highlights cultural grooming and trade influences shaping early cosmetic use.
Across the continent spring arrived amid unusually cold weather with heavy snow in Chicago and Eastern cities. The second week of spring brought Easter bonnets replaced by warm clothing as observers noted this may be the coldest Easter in the United States in decades.
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