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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1923
Page
7
Elgin Echo reports a busy week with school events, hospital clinics, and local notices. Dr Hutchinson’s dental visit, Marion school district program, and a Postville eye clinic are noted, along with farm and community updates from Clermont, Clark, and Waterloo areas.
Describes amber as fossilized resin from red fir trees formed over millennia. Explains varieties such as stone, water, flower, black jet, and wax amber. Notes Chinese method: genuine amber warms with friction and attracts mustard seed or leaves.
An excerpt on Arabian belief in deciphering bird speech as an ancient science tied to Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. It recounts Hud-hud the lapwing messenger, Athejas and a camel driver’s exchange, and pigeons linked to the Prophet’s cave, illustrating legendary communication with birds.
The Kansas City Star reports that mudstone or madstone therapy for hydrophobia is an unfounded oil tradition. Physicians affirm the Pasteur method by a competent physician remains the only effective treatment. Historical accounts trace the stone to 17th century India and spread to Europe and America, but its efficacy is wholly imaginary.
The article recalls cockfighting's long reach across nations and eras from England's early prohibitions in 1866 to Henry VII’s Whitehall cockpit, noting its persistence in Peru where even church dignitaries engaged. It also mentions Sir Clements Markham’s 1853 Peruvian expedition dining with a bishop who staged a gamecock fight at table.
Nature Magazine of Washington notes that Nighthawks and whippoorwills feed mainly at night while other birds rest, with during daybreak powered by owlets and swallows. They use wide gapes to scoop up vast insect numbers, including six hundred insects found in a single Arkansas nighthawk's stomach.
A clipped antiquated tale claims afternoons are unsafe for weddings and cites an old English custom tied to noon weddings. The piece quips that grooms waited on brides at table and attributes a whimsical etymology to a term about servants.
The Mt. Vernon Record cites a social welfare worker story from Jefferson about a beggar who earned over $5 that forenoon and $300 in 14 days in Oklahoma. It argues most need sympathy are the workers who earn their money and warns those who solicit aid do not deserve it while true workers will not accept charity.
Figures show Iowa fires cost 19.15 million dollars in the year just passed with America losing 1.5 million in property daily. Five schoolhouses and churches burn every day as prevention efforts rise. Over a hundred people, mostly women and children, die yearly from fires in Iowa, underscoring need for safer heating, cooking, wiring, and ventilation systems.
The United Light and Railway Company announced a project to build a vast power plant on the Iowa shore one mile upstream from the Atlas Portland Cement plant. The facility aims to be among the country’s largest, serving outside plants within about 100 miles of Davenport. The first unit is planned for 1924 completion and the plant will be about twice the size of the Keokuk facility.
Two men behind packing cases on the docks in Brest mock a labor battalion. One braggingly says his father’s tough heritage includes trimming nails with an ax and filing feet. the other claims his father shaves with a blow torch twice weekly.
A witty remark about romance ends with a playful countdown of twenty two shopping days until Christmas, suggesting holiday shopping urgency and social commentary in a compact quip.
The report notes Northwestern Bell Taxes in Towa fund education with over one third of 1922 taxes, totaling 376,366 dollars nationwide. It details four tax headings and a $130,292 school fund allocation. Gasoline drops to 14 cents per gallon in Decorah. several independents followed the Stanfard Oil Company price cut amid national declines.
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