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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1927
Page
6
In this fashion column Julia Bottomley describes the season's love of white furs paired with black designs. Printed velvet frocks, velvet hats, and fur trims dominate, with white fox and ermine collars, two-tone black and white prints, and dramatic scarf details highlighted.
Naturalists and scientists from Australia and New Zealand urge an international convention to regulate whale hunting as Norwegian fleets in the Ross Sea and Stewart Island areas killed hundreds of whales in late 1926 and early 1927. Estimates show about 1,500 whales killed in the last year with large oil exports to Norway and royalty paid to New Zealand. It reflects growing concern over potential whale extinction and calls for coordinated action.
A vintage box ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a safe and proven preventive for colds grip or influenza. The box shows the signature I. W. Grove and the price 80 cents.
In London at a dinner Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recalled a chat with a young actor earning ten dollars a week. The actor proposed dividing their incomes for life. Doyle refused and says he has since regretted it. He notes the actor later became Charlie Chaplin as an example that some fools and their money are hard to separate.
A brief, crisp reflection notes how mayflies appear as winged insects one evening and disappear by morning. It contrasts outward laughter with inward groan, suggesting hidden emotion beneath a comic surface.
A garbled collage of vintage ads and quotes from 1927 fills the page. It includes La Fontaine aphorisms, an appeal to “Attention Agents” promising 100 percent profit, a note from Anchos Supply Co, a Ford crankshaft flaw claim, and a Lumber Co address, all hinting at widespread promotional chatter of the era.
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