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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1932
Page
5
Want ads listing rates and terms, plus multiple small ads for farm animals, equipment, oaths, and services from Echo Office. Includes prices, items like sow litters, a Royal typewriter, oats and corn, stoves, S Short sales, trades, and a combined paper offer for Payette and Clayton counties.
An Ossian correspondent reports Travis Jackson, who was hired at Cole Cafe in Ossian, slept in the rear room then cut a wall into Figge Clothing Store. He allegedly stole two suits, shoes, robe, ties, pajamas, a top coat, two traveling bags, $28, and cigarettes, aided by an accomplice believed to have fled miles away.
New Zealand spinach outperforms ordinary spinach by thriving through hot months and multiplying as it is picked. Planting should wait until warm weather arrives. The ends of branches are eaten, and frequent picking encourages more growth. Hawkeye high school reports a graduating class of 18 this year.
Iowa’s natural history notes cover sturgeon species in North America with Mississippi River data on eggs, fishing yields, and declines, plus a South Dakota pheasant tale of a surviving cock from 2,000 released birds. Reports also flag a large 22-pound pickerel at Clear Lake and outline a two year survey of fish and game propagation, habitats, and regulations.
Kenneth Collins of R. H. Macy & Co. argues newspapers are the dominant advertising medium in the United States. He notes that more than half of publicity budgets are spent in newspapers and urges frank advertising about conditions to combat the business slump.
A 100 foot tall tower is being erected at the Heights summer resort near McGregor. The structure will be 26 feet square at the base and 12 feet square at the top, housing a powerful telescope. An enclosed stairway provides ascent. This is private enterprise and a fee will be charged for use.
Farmers are advised to supply hay or straw and ample water before moving cows to sweet clover pasture, ensuring they are well fed and hydrated for the transition.
Farmers in southern Iowa seek best food for quail under the state's 25 year plan. Planting peas millets soybeans and lespedera along pastures field edges and fence rows provides ideal nourishment with minimal labor and cost.
A senate banking hearing revealed alleged payments exceeding a quarter of a million dollars to metropolitan press writers for favorable stock commentary. The investigation shows stock manipulators from the east influencing readers across the middle west and beyond. The Union notes the public’s exposure to this deceptive hype.
Soybeans should be planted after corn and on land cleared of weeds. Do not plant too early. the period immediately after corn planting is about the right time for optimal results.
A roundup of local social news mentions Harold Stoehr visiting his mother Mrs Hulda Stoehr and Della Falk and Hazel Wilson of Waterloo spending Sunday in the area. Verle Kniel returns from work at Graham Schedk Lumber in West Union to Clermont. Theodore Loftsgard family welcome a new baby boy born May 4. Mrs N M Fritz reports sister Belle Baldwin in Wenatchee Washington notes orchards in full bloom.
A collage of overheard remarks touches on farm buildings, employment shifts, and political platform tweaks. References to mules, coal heating at the Veterans Hospital, and Pullman layoffs hint at local concerns while shoppers and merchants are urged to share prices.
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