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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1935
Page
6
Elgin residents share news of illnesses travel and visits with family and friends. Mary Goetz was sick at week start, Ruth Mosby stayed with G I Mosby family, and Viola Berndt returned from Fayette for weekend with her parents. Various relatives gather for Thanksgiving in Elgin and nearby towns.
Italy to Nice to Monaco the cheese smugglers move vast amounts of dairy products across borders. French and Monaco officials seize 870 pounds on St Louis bridge frontier while a boatload of Gorgonzola is halted off Cape Martin. A ton of cheese aboard a motor yacht reaches the rocky Cannes isles and the gang pays a 600 pound fine before dispersing to the French Italian frontier mountains.
Engineers forecast ultrashort micro-waves will extend radio range and enable rapid television. Discovered by Marconi, these waves promise static-free transmission and quick facsimile messages. Sixty-four frames per second may project moving pictures, but horizon loss requires booster stations every 40 miles.
Crowds from many parts of Italy watched a spectacular quarry blast at Carrara. A mine above the Ravaccione valley revealed a new face 250 feet high and 650 feet wide after an explosion. A two ton charge ran 90 feet into the mountain before zigzag descending for 85 feet. The chamber was six feet high and three across and months of work preceded the blast. A final electric key triggered a roar and massive blocks fell, quickly hidden by white dust.
The skin of a kintsenheon, or monkey of the snows, is among the Smithsonian Institute’s latest curiosities. One of only a few specimens in America or Europe, its remote habitat makes it extremely rare. The creature features a short green to turquoise face, large bulging eyes, an upturned nose, and a beard of long orange hair.
About a thousand miles within the Arctic Circle a mining company staffs 13 houses with 300 men and 20 women under contract. There is no store, movie, jail, school or church. In five winter months the place is in complete darkness and winds require tying the 20 houses to the ground with steel cables.
The article lists airplane noise sources in order propeller exhaust engine clatter and whistling wires. It pairs a humorous, fragmented dialogue about a ghost and cookies with odd exchanges about home, a rail road track, and a child’s ambition to wash a mother’s face.
St Pauls M E Church announces worship at 10 a m with Sunday school at 11 a m led by Minister J J Snyder and pianist Mrs Louis Klingman promoting the church’s morning program.
Illyria Church announces Sunday school at 10 15 a m led by J J Snyder and worship at 11 16 a m with Grace Foxwell and Piani assisting in the service.
Elgin Baptist Church work includes Sunday worship at 10 with communion, Sunday school at 11, afternoon service at 2, and midweek events. Women’s Missionary Society gathers December 4 at 2, prayer meeting at 8, choir at 9. Local notices mention Thanksgiving visits and family travel for parishioners and friends.
Mr and Mrs Frank Limbeck of West Union visited Mrs H T Knudtson last Wednesday. The first subzero Iowa weather Friday saw Spencer official 5 below, while other towns reported eight to sixteen above. Supt D R Roberts family hosted a pheasant dinner at Max Thoma's. Keith Thoma took leave Friday to join the hunt. Jens Halverson said his family would visit Thanksgiving, and they favor their Frankville home now near Wadena.
An exchange reports a truck driver arrested and fined for wreckless driving. Sends a note that he deserved a medal instead for safe handling under pressure.
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