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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1929
Page
3
May Day is proclaimed Child Health Day by President Hoover to promote year round child welfare. The piece suggests a home celebration with a festive table and a healthful menu for kids including Creamy Eggs and Honey Jumbles. It describes making Creamy Eggs and Honey Jumbles, and promotes regular healthy foods for children with a note about a gas stove recipe from Feller's Hardware.
A selection of basic kitchen tasks covers cheese topped apple pie warm serving and hot roast beef sandwiches with buttered toasted bread and gravy. It also outlines meat loaf basics using lean meat onion egg and crumbs, plus a chocolate pie recipe with milk cornstarch sugar butter egg yolks vanilla and a meringue topping baked slowly.
A fragmented item notes variation in mammal teeth with examples such as rodents having 20 teeth and dolphins around 200. It also mentions a supposed Knights Templar round church rents in Hexpttullers and a 13th century tablet at Her Rnogland, as revealed by church authorities.
A Pathfinder Magazine note explains that cocksure means overconfident and self assured. The term derives from the barnyard rooster symbolizing certainty. The piece cites Shakespeare and the idea of being sure as a cock in traditional usage.
A fragmented clipping mentions Gordon Rentschler, head of a named bank, and hints at his return or involvement in business, noting references to the National City Bank of New York and a mysterious figure described as the man in a payang busineass.
Notice is given that Elgin Home Telephone Company at Elgin Fayette County Iowa has renewed amended articles to extend twenty years from April 2 1929 unless dissolved by two thirds stockholder vote. It shall construct own operate lease purchase and sell telephone lines exchanges instruments and supplies and may engage in related business. authorized capital stock is 1800 dollars in 22 shares of 80 dollars each. Board of five directors and officers serve two year terms. Current officers/directors listed. meetings annual last Saturday in December at Elgin. Maximum indebtedness not to exceed two thirds of capital stock. signatures of John Julier president and John Friederich secretary.
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