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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1934
Page
6
Local items recall Geraldine Schori illness and visits by families including Holzers to Randalia and Elkader. Thanksgiving dinner planned at Baptist church with Tabitha Society serving. Weddings, birthdays, club activities, and travel to Iowa City and Muscatine appear among social notes with multiple families and towns named.
Baptist Church notes list Thursday prayer meetings at 8 p m and 9 p m choir, Sunday November 18 English service at 10 a m Sunday school at 11 a m B P A program at 7 30 p m Captain Louis Lehman with music by Orchestra Our Duty Toward Foreign Missions J F Miller duets Mrs Fred Muehlethaler and Mrs Tofield Heck Home Missions M Zurbriggen Vocal Solo Clarence Kohls Paper Otto Krueger Guy Probert Cornet Solo Marian Lehman Reading Louise Hackman Bible Questions Mary Baechler Longanne ene Choir Sunday November 18 8 30 p m B Y P U prayer meeting Leader M Zurbriggen Thursday November 22 8 p m prayer meeting Choir at 9 p m. We are glad to see you in our services.
The M E Church notes say J J Snyder is the minister and Mrs Louis Klingman is the pianist. The church service is at 10 a m with Sunday school at 11 a m. The second division of the Ladies Aid Society hosts the general aid this Thursday afternoon at the church and choir practice is this Thursday evening.
St Olaf Chapel at 9:00 English service and Norway at 11 Norse service Marion at 7:30 Luther League. Come to church you are welcome at each service. J Strandjord pastor.
Illyria church notes list J J Snyder and Paxwell as church staff with services at 11 15 am and Sunday school at 10 15 am. The Ladies Aid Society and Cemetery Association will meet at Mrs Ed Wengers home on Wednesday afternoon Nov 21. Fred Reitz and Edward Grimm of La Grange Mo visited over the weekend. L H Hauth of Hawkeye discussed election results noting he trailed state and district Democrat tickets due to less advertising and campaign exposure.
The Missouri Farmer notes key similarities from larval stages to adults but highlights differences. Butterflies have clubbed antennae and slender bodies, rest with wings folded over the body, and are primarily diurnal. Moths often have feathered or straight antennae, plump bodies, rest with wings spread or flat, and prefer night or twilight, with some daytime exceptions.
Washington Post describes Jupiter with zones and evolving spots, including the permanent red spot and the south tropical disturbance. It notes Jupiter's great mass, gaseous cloud shell, and temperatures around minus 154 degrees Celsius, comparing its coldness to Earth but warmer than previously thought.
The article traces ancient and modern use of fingerprints dating to 400 B C in China and earlier peoples. It notes thumb impressions as rulers seals, traces the modern system to 19th century work by Purkinje in 1828, Herschel in India in 1858, Bengal police adoption, Galton's influence, and Britain's 1901 adoption, with U S introduction about ten years after.
Treasury records show no public debt receipts in 1834 and 1835, with funds on hand on January 1 1835 1836 and 1887 to meet all outstanding indebtedness. The United States experienced two debt free years, a unique period in Jacksons second administration.
Henry Bergh led the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as its first president from 1806 to 1888. The English precursor movement led by Richard Mertle, MP of Galway, Ireland, began in 1824, eventually forming the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Harley Helms s illness and a trip to Waseca Minnesota frame a recap of Elgin area happenings. Mrs Helms and Mrs Stoehr visit relatives, produce from a 40 acre garden featured, and local residents entertain former Elginites now in Waseca. High school social event at Odd Fellows hall and play Prosperity on Parade in Clermont noted.
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