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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1935
Page
4
Want ads list rates and extra charges, plus various sales and items for sale or rent. Polished stock hogs, purebred Berkshire spring boats, typewriter paper, office supplies, farm property near Elgin, hiking boots, a county plat-book, Kniel property in Elgin, limestone quarry deliveries, and Echo subscription services are detailed.
Lansing and Waukon host boxing bouts featuring well known locals including "Tuffy" Bennett and "Frosty" Bennett from Lansing, "Tuff Boy" Daniels of Waterloo, and "Bad Boy" Dawson of Cedar Falls. Early training traces to Elgin alleys on Saturday nights.
About a month after Decorah was slated to lose its CCC camp the order was reversed and some boys had already been moved. An exchange states that $4 000 will be expended on improving the camp. Echo Want Ad.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy for sluggish digestion and toxin buildup. It claims the liver should pour two pounds of bile daily, connects poor bile flow to decay, bad breath, headaches, and a poisoned system, and urges readers to ask for the product by name on red labeled packaging.
An agricultural outlook notes expansion in egg production early 1936 with lower prices, rising fat lamb prices in early 1936, smaller lamb supplies through May, and a larger Corn Belt lamb crop if weather is normal. Horse and mule numbers may stop declining, while work stock stay costly. Grain production rises, feed grain per animal unit near 1925 levels, soybeans decline slightly, and wheat prices hinge on war developments.
The study notes horses and cattle utilize cornstalk pasture better than milking cows. Fall farrowed and growing pigs need warm quarters and outdoor access. Iowa faces a shortage of colts for replacements, with high draft animal prices likely to persist for years. Foal numbers have fallen since 1984, and horse raising remains a long term enterprise with 8 to 14 years before work readiness.
Mrs. 0. Pfartz of Dubuque, formerly of Waucoma, is connected to Lotta Pfartz who will play a major part in a new film titled An Ill Zephyr Blows. Lotta has previously starred in plays at Waucoma high school.
A. O. Rennison of Boise visits in the Celia Rennison home from Friday to Sunday. Chris Gregerson, east of town, remains ill under doctor care. Mr. and Mrs. M. Bird of Bedford visit with his parents over the weekend. Hans Keiser and Jeanette Lindaman plan a Thanksgiving trip to Aplington if weather cooperates. Supt. L. B. Carter and son Lewis of Lehigh arrive Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with the Palb homes.
The first annual report of the old age assistance commission to Governor Clyde L. Herring outlines that 12,699 elderly in Town receive pensions totaling $170,000 monthly. It notes administration costs at about half the typical private business level, high head tax collection, and that Iowa's elderly share ranks among the top states. The report, covering 15 months, warns of inadequate funding, cites a need for about $8,000,000 yearly and further federal aid for about 42,600 eligible applicants, and laments no federal funds due to a congressional filibuster.
The report analyzes Iowa's $1 head tax funding old age pensions from November 1934 through mid-1936, detailing expenditures of $944 283 for pensions, $83 709 80 for operating expenses, $21 535 69 for funeral claims and $15 065 51 reserved for contingencies. It notes 185 000 Iowans aged 85 plus and compares costs to private insurance, arguing old age assistance is a need based monthly cash payment rather than a guaranteed entitlement.
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