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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1930
Page
4
A jumble of ads and quotes comment on savings and science. The passage notes gas venting issues, price offers for subscriptions, and a crow diet fact stating one fifth of a crow's diet is insects. The tone mixes advertising, philosophy, and trivia from various sources.
Life span can range from one to seven months based on conditions. The New York Telegram observes the variability and attributes it to environment. A separate quote notes that love forgives more faults in love than in friendship.
A mixed Elgin School News page reports small losses and life events, plus oddities from 1888 era figures like Clarence Hawkes and William Sapp. It includes measurements, economic stats, humor exchanges, and quips about golf and daily life.
C F Hutchinson, U S tea examiner, favors a simple method using a spoonful per cup, an aluminum strainer, boiling water poured slowly, a 3 to 4 minute steep, then a touch of sugar for a preferred cup. Also noted are magazine subscription savings and advertising tips for keeping old customers.
Local Elgin Echo page lists classified ads and notices: for sale goods like Shorthorn bulls and Rhode Island White cockerels, hardware and office supplies, household items, hunting restrictions, and lost items. Multiple names and addresses appear including Elgin Iowa Clermont Postville, Auctiones and farms. Deals include radios, dictionaries, and Christmas cards with conditions and prices.
For sale second hand refrigerators at half price from Feller's Hardware West Elgin. Also good used pianos in very reasonable condition seen with Wm E Baumgartner Elgin. Tell them you saw it in the Echo Want Ad column.
Illyria News reports a school program in district No 1 led by Leone Kerr enjoyed by a large crowd. The item lists many weekend social visits across Randalia Elgin Waterloo Paton Wear Union and nearby towns with numerous families hosting guests and attending meetings. A local cemetery association and Ladies Aid met. salesbooks from McCasky and Crosby-Wirth are advertised. Seventy-two black walnut trees in Barton county Mo yielded a $1500 cash crop for a farmer.
A fragmented note outlines methods to prevent micla injuries in fields. It mentions ground shelter removal, tree treatment with repellent washes, and avoiding torn-are of not. It also describes surface washes, a 9 part to 1 par sot e oil mixture, poisoned grain baits in mouth bottles or jars, and bait stations sold on the market to destroy most of the pests.
Arnold Bauman is sick under doctor care. Mr and Mrs Sheldon Boyle and family spent Sunday in West Union. Mrs Herman Scheel has been sick since last week with a heart attack. Tuesday was overshoe day and merchants report many shoppers walked out. Mrs George Vaughn visited relatives at Manchester earlier in the week. Mr and Mrs Rudy Yunker were dinner guests at the Dur Scher Jr. home near West Union. Mr and Mrs C J Harrington and Mae visited W J Kohler home in Manchester, Margaret Dennler of Dubuque and John Bossard of Elkader in the Huanaon home Monday evening. The Bud Boyer road crew quit work on the ridge road Saturday and laid equipment away for the winter. Mrs Melehr Schiesser and Mrs Margaret Lige of New Glarus Wis visited last Thursday and Friday at the Rudy Yunker home. Bring poultry and eggs to the Independance Produce station near the hotel. Highest cash prices paid. Louis Bauman, Mer Be Clayton Pringle of Cedar Rapids visited last Saturday for a visit with injuries from being run down by a car two months ago, and is able to go about with the aid of a crutch.
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