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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
4
A fragment from a Waukon Democrat column references Remember the Echo subscription agency offering magazine deals and club discounts for multiple titles. It mentions handling complaints, remittance records, and a small classified line for a 2 wheel trailer in Elgin. The text also includes a humorous prompt about a polling husbands questionnaire in the De Hineator.
The Frazier Lemke bill failed 235 to 142 amid two days of high quality debate. One speaker urged voting no, warning of ruinous costs and endless paper money issuance. He noted administration support for farmers yet opposition from leaders and warned of impact on employment and markets. The piece also notes a new trade pact with France promising expanded business and employment.
R. L. Doc Shambaugh, 55, a Dubuque salesman for McKesson-Churchill Co. Cedar Rapids, died early Tuesday after a three hour illness of apoplexy at Decorah hospital. Body taken to Cedar Rapids for burial.
A collection of urban quips and notes from a local paper. Mentions various residents including M. Zurbriggen on bakery duty after illness, Capper hatchery helpers Ernestine Holzer Corrine Wenger and Verle Roberts addressing 20 000 circulars, and a playful exchange about a left handed Scot and a dog leash incident.
The official statement shows a gross debt of 50 519 622 339 638 dollars. After cash on hand, net debt is 29 581 693 529 98. Government securities total 18 034 469 809 63, with over 12 billion owned by European governments making value speculative but likely above zero. Most of the remaining six billion is solid, reducing the actual net national debt substantially.
A group of four Texas sisters sat in the house gallery as hundreds watched. The scene included former Texas governor and several congressmen among the spectators. The House has about 13,000 measures introduced, with around 400 likely to become law, making four measures an unlikely outcome.
A dated street conversation reports a bet over President Roosevelt’s re election. Fred Biermann notes a wager of a hundred dollars against a thousand dollars on the outcome, reflecting public sentiment at the time.
A jumble of droll quips from columns and classroom exchanges, including a foreman testing a job applicant with jokes about armatures and Major Bowes, a Toledo runaway anecdote, and satirical lines on education, insanity signs, and political advertising as a wakeup call.
Allamakee county supervisors cap bounty payments at 50 cents for rattlesnakes only when at least four inches of tail remains attached to the rattles for the bounty. The move aims to curb bounty fraud by ensuring hunters do not harvest snakes for profit without killing them.
The Faycetta county schoolmasters club met at the Presbyterian church dining room for its final meeting. W. J. Edgar was elected president, B. M. Finch named vice president, and L. G. Meyer re-elected secretary treasurer. Reports from conference chairs and play day plans were discussed. the 42-member group includes superintendents and men teachers in Fayette county Union.
Brainard residents attended a Play Day at West Union last Saturday while Beatrice Boyer and Donna Mae Cummings earned eighth grade diplomas. Visitors included numerous local families. Azalia Nutting chaperoned Brainard pupils to see Captain January at Princesa theatre in West Union.
A Kansas resident received three neckties from a St. Louis “blind man” who demanded two dollars or the goods’ return. The man kept the ties and sent back three old ones, remarking the blind case won’t know the difference. Rep Buchanan of Texas, head of the appropriations panel, attacks a statistic minded trend, calling the U.S. the greatest country for gathering statistics yet using them poorly.
In Fayette County District Court on June 8 1936 an instrument claimed as the last will of Louisa C Liebner late of the county will be presented for probate admission Weat Union Iowa dated May 11 1936 The notice lists Celia Rennison and daughters Rosa Mueklethaler and Katie Bauman as heirs and beneficiaries while detailing social visits by local residents including Mrs Elizabeth Robinson of Manchester and Mr Turner of Larchwood with others as dinner guests and callers.
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