Want Ads and Local Sales Notices from Elgin Echo
Want ads outline rates and payment terms with multiple line notes. The items include for sale or trade a wagon with box, home-rendered lard, a black team, Timothy seed, and two Webster’s dictionaries, plus rental and farm work notices and horse listings. An offer promotes combined Elgin Echo Clermont Enterprise subscriptions for Fayette and Clayton counties.
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L. Klingman
Elgin
Elgin Echo
Clermont Enterprise
Fayette
Clayton Counties
Plan Reorganization of Migratory Bird Advisory Board
Report from American Game outlines a planned revamp of the Migratory Bird Advisory Board by the Agriculture Department. Proposals include ten regional members and five or more at large, with warnings against a hand-picked or political board. Board activity expected around July as hunting season regulations are prepared.
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Migratory Bird Advisory Board
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Yowa Land Birds Natural History Series The Crow
The Crow species includes American and Fish varieties with notable intelligence. American crow is larger. crows nest in April and show stealth during the season. They are described as incessant talkers with a local dislike from farmers. Eggs are bluish or greenish white, five to six per nest.
Ducks Attack West California Farmers Near Brawley
An AP report notes about 40,000 migratory waterfowl from Salton Sea sanctuaries damaged fields near Brawley California. Farmers used shotguns to protect crops while field agents logged roughly 1000 acres of barley clipped, plus winter peas and alfalfa harmed.
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West
A. P
Salton Seas
Brawley
Calif
Effects of Stream Pollution Warned By Wildlife Loss
A Wapello Republican report notes three oil tank cars spilled lubricants near Gladwin, creating a river oil film from bank to bank. Fish and muskrats were found dead or depilated, prompting calls to curb sewage and factory discharges polluting the Cedar and Town rivers and endangering public health and aquatic life.
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Wapello
Repubican
Gladwin
Fred Shaw
Grandview
Republican
Cedar Rivers
Feed the Birds in Fairfield Winter Call to Citizens
Mrs A J Labagh urges Fairfield residents to feed birds this winter. She has fed a brood for weeks from her kitchen window. The visiting birds are daily callers and tame with time, including red cardinals that may come to eat from hands.
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Fairfield
A. J.labagh
Fair, Field and Vicinity
Bird Day tips for Iowa farms from state agencies
Iowa lawmakers and conservation boards urge bird habitat actions across farms. Suggestions include building bluebird houses, planting winter cover trees, and leaving ungrazed woodlots for quail and Cooper’s hawks. Protect nesting ground for quail and prairie chickens, and avoid overgrazing to safeguard grouse and other species.
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Towa
Iowa
Fish ‘and Game Commission
Towa Conservation Board
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Tom
Harry
What Happened to the Old Fashioned Popular Girl
A reflective piece questions the fate of the old fashioned girl who could be popular and possess common sense. It ponders societal shifts and the balance between charm and practicality in the modern era.
Postville area notes and community updates
Mrs Elmer Benson visited Mr and Mrs Ole Torkelgen last week. Mrs Melvin Johnson and Mrs Jack Malone spent Sunday with the Nels Olsson family. Mr and Mrs B H Morris of Marquette visited John Falks home. Anna DeSart Dorothy and Mary Frances Hoyt called on Delwein Monday evening. Relief from debt not found in borrowing more, truth and courage in leadership urged. The Scotch football yell asks for a quarter back.
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Henderson Prairie
Melvin Johnson
Jack Malone
Nels Olsson
BH. L. Morris
Marquette
John Falk
Anna DeSart
Dorothy
Mary Frances Hoyt
Delwein
Funny Sunday School Tale From Shade rach Meshach
Four year old Harry laughed at a Sunday school tale about adventures featuring Shade rach Meshach and nine billy goats. His mother asked for details and the boy giggled over the misheard phrases as the story amused them at home.
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Harry
Height of Joyfulness and the Spiritual Summit
A compact quotation on achievement and spiritual ascent. It links rising from struggle to future goals and views from both the valley and a higher peak, attributed to H. B. Oborn.
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H. B. Oborn
A Sure Friend by Emerson Reflection on Virtuous Companionship
A brief meditation on friendship describing two virtuous men sharing deep understanding after mutual good offices. The quote emphasizes trust, self-giving, and mutual respect as the highest form of companionship.
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Emerson
Fat folk laugh more than ordinary folk says FI correspondent
The FI correspondent ponders why heavier people appear to enjoy humor more, suggesting there are simply more of them able to have a good time.
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Gace
They Would Meat and the Phlegmatic Herd Quote
An odd quotation from a 19th century source notes women feeling separate from the herd when nervous, attributed to Womat’s Hone Companion. The fragment reflects period attitudes on gender and emotion in casual prose.
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Womat
Odd jobs and quips mix in a crowded notice board
A fragmentary catalog of rough ads and quips surfaces with lines about fixing jobs and small orders. It includes jokes about poker players, a minister and butcher exchanges, a strange animal in a hotel, and a quip on Columbus as a prophet.
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B. W. Muehlenthaler
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McCasky
Crosby-Wisth
U. S
Chas
Anderson
Starkey
Cleramont
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Little Storlegaf
H. J. Metcalf
Information State Fish Commission
Yowa Land Birds — Natural History Series
The
Crow
Polly
America
Willie
Farmer
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UAKER
International Harvester
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Forkelson Bros
Elgin, Iowa
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