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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1937
Page
2
Numerous residents visit relatives in Wadena and nearby towns including the Corkery and Whittenbaugh families. The paper lists many Sunday dinners and weekend visits, student activities, and upcoming school events culminating in Wadena high school’s 12 to 10 win at Elgin.
A public health note emphasizes that preschool children face as much or more risk from preventable diseases as school-age kids. It urges regular health examinations, vaccination, immunization, and avoidance of epidemics, noting preschool deaths from scarlet fever diphtheria measles and whooping cough are alarmingly high. The article cites statistics from the Child Welfare Research Station at the University of Minnesota.
Cheery Valley News lists numerous visits and dinners among Baumgartner Hanson Knudtson and related families. The report notes guests at Osc ar Baumgartner and Mrs L Christen homes, sewing parties, quilt work, and a Saturday pinocle birthday gathering for Sam Howard in Elgin with attendees including Dennler Hanson Lehrer Leuch tenmacher and many kin. Rose Marie Dennler took an 8th grade exam at Elgin last week.
Pearls are produced by oysters as they try to expel irritants such as worms. Nacre is deposited around the foreign body to form the pearl. The Persian Gulf holds the finest pearl fisheries, with other sources scattered elsewhere.
A collection of pithy quotes exploring behavior pride and humor. It muses on backbones in snubbing , the abundance of redbirds versus sparrows, loaded guns as assumption, travel smells, Shakespeare the Bard of Avon , youth weather and joy. It notes desk cleaning finds and kindness from others while warning on grammar and philosophy.
In Fayette County farm bureau homes families discuss child development and family relations as they play. Earl Duane Rosella Lowell Rossie and others enjoy homemade toys like bibs from Turkish towels a doll bed and orange crate chair. H D A Lewis leads home project efforts distributing patterns and playthings for children.
Soviet Academy explorers thawed insects and small sea animals found 15 feet deep in Siberian ice. Eggs hatched and crawfish yielded ten new generations after resurrection. Scientists see implications for long-term preservation and potential human applications. Separate American work notes frozen disease-affected monkey thawing without ill effects.
The cow ranks among the shortest lived domestic animals with goats and sheep around 15 years, hogs up to 25, while cats and dogs often reach 40 and camels horses and donkeys about 30 to 40 years. Beyond domestic creatures most live months or years, but the giant tortoise stands out with lifespans exceeding two centuries.
The article notes the maximum north to south span in the United States as 1,598 miles and the maximum east to west span as 2,807 miles from Maine to Oregon, outlining the country’s extreme distances.
Witch hazel is not just a smelly skin wash. the extract comes from the moister woodlands. The shrub, unseen in summer, may surprise hikers in winter with small stringy yellow flowers that bloom from late November to March.
The Great Four refers to Leonardo da Vinci Raphael Titian and Michelangelo. The term highlights four master Italian artists whose works shaped the Renaissance and influenced Western art through lofty stylistic innovations.
Collier's Weekly notes that due to illiteracy poor memory lost records and early parental death about three quarters of the world’s people may not know their own ages. The piece discusses the challenge of age knowledge and its social consequences.
A Western genius proposes crossing carrier pigeons with parrots to create talking birds for wartime messaging. He argues that speaking birds could relay information beyond mere notes, offering a potential strategic advantage in conflict times.
A terse exchange shows a desperate man telling Joan marriage is impossible while she insists she could manage a mouse, revealing a quirky, playful domestic moment.
A Czechoslovakian gardener developed a dark red rose with light red veins and, with Yugoslav government permission, named it after the late King Alexander-Gas Logic. The naming signals a diplomatic gesture and botanical achievement amid postwar decorum.
A comic exchange unfolds as a secretary reports a caller who only says "idiot." The boss decides to answer, guessing the caller is his wife in a lighthearted moment.
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