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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1933
Page
4
A fragmented ad page offers autos for sale and rental items, office supplies, a book on gods kingdom, and wholesale office stationery. Listings mention a 4 wheel trailer with tires, garage rental behind City Drug Store, and a Chicago mail order offer for religious literature. Echo Office Elgin stocks typing pads paper ribbons station ery and index cards.
Invitation to Highland School District No 3 picnic and program on May 27 featuring recitations songs dialogues and performances by pupils and the Jolly Drum Corps with teacher Hilda Meyer listed among participants. Also a newspaper joke about buying a second-hand car appears in the issue.
Fragmentary notes describe aurora borealis observations with references to light distances from Earth and measurements. The text is incomplete and contains garbled terms, offering no clear event, date, or identifiable figures beyond general aurora descriptions.
The letter argues against continuing the nine foot channel project this year, endorsing only minor dam work and expressing resolve to protect railroads, cities, and farms from flood risks. It warns the project would waste resources and compares it to Babel, urging rededication to finishing the work of preserving peace. Memorial Day thoughts emphasize living citizens over the dead and a pledge to pursue peaceful aims.
Mr and Mrs John Falb visited in E L Morris home in Marquette on Sunday. Mrs Nella Capper and Mrs A W Falb were business visitors in Delwein on Tuesday. Ronald Cross of Grandview Rev J J Snyder and family were dinner guests Sunday of Belya Benson. Russell Kohler and Dale DeSart drove to Manchester Tuesday to attend the senior class play at Manchester high school. Feallets Hardware West Elgin advertises lawn mowers and fencing with a call to visit and prices as offered by Mr and Mrs Donald Dean and others.
The column lists residents visiting relatives in Dubuque Marquette and Oklahoma, notes graduation news from Norman High School with Peter and William Weibel in the class, reports a May 31 liquor lecture at Elgin town hall, and describes park sidewalk completion and upcoming street projects. It mentions wedding anniversary celebrations, hospital stays, and orchard views near Gay Mills Wisconsin. Readers are urged to send news items to The Echo.
An annual Home Project Achievement Day program will be held Saturday May 27 with a morning program at 10 20 featuring a welcome by Mack Ned State Department of Health speaker and a 12 00 picnic dinner. The program includes singing special music by Helen Needles vocal duet remarks by Dr A E Bennett a solo address by R K Bliss the judge's report a Farm Bureau chorus and an one act play. All are welcome to attend.
The article outlines methods for French Ice Cream and Strawberry Peach and Orange sherbets. It lists ingredients and steps for freezing, including milk eggs sugar salt cream vanilla strawberry prep lemon juice and peaches. It notes freezing with ice and salt and ripening time.
A New York Teachers College lecture by Dr. Henry Neumann argues that rising personal excellence, not broader liberty or tougher divorce laws, should shape marriage standards. He warns against revising laws from the perspective of those who have failed, urging development of inner character and higher personality.
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