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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1925
Page
6
A radio beacon tower is planned at Monmouth to aid United States air mail pilots. Advertisements tout Cuticura soap for shaving and skin health, plus USKIDE Soles for shoes as a durable, affordable upgrade. Also a quip about grass widows and buried husbands.
A dense clipping presents a word puzzle with clues ranging across music theory geography languages and myth. It lists terms like a note in the diatonic scale a river between Ceres and Chiron and Norse thunder god Thor and hints at an answer grid forthcoming in the next day’s page.
A guide explains crossword mechanics with horizontal and vertical clues. It notes that numbered letters start definitions, words fit white spaces until black squares, and no letters go in black spaces. It emphasizes dictionary words, with abbreviations and initials marked as terms.
A mischievous scene unfolds as Big Job Little Ella Latham struggles to read while tending twins and sighs Twins is just naturally too much The ad promotes Cole a Carbolisaire claiming instant pain relief and quick healing with claims of ease for cuts or burns.
A strange creature with a zebra like body and a giraffe horned head has been obtained at Irumu in the Belgian Congo with aid from Pygmies. The remark contrasts that many bulls at the stock exchange are bears at home.
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