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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1922
Page
4
The column lists numerous neighbors visiting relatives and friends across West Union Elkader Clermont Oak Grove and Volga City. It notes church activities at Iliyria and Harrow areas with Sunday school worship and Epworth League meetings. Carried are social calls dental visits quilting gatherings and a surprise party for Harold.
Federal agents seized the Grand theater at Cedar Rapida last week for nonpayment of head and seat taxes. Manager Max Lubin is missing. authorities declined to reveal the tax amount but it was several thousand dollars. The government plans to sell the theater as business declined.
A ton and a half of stone from the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal will be used to erect a monument over Theodore Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay.
Fred Yost visited Clermont between trains while Ben Hofer hosted a full house Sunday. Ellen Hanson attended Illyria church services. Rudy Studr of Rock Valley called on Adolph Baumgartner’s home. Bert Thoman and Fred Hanson did business in Elkader. A youth party was at George Lenchtenmacher's. Mrs. Ben Frieden visited her daughter. Martin Hanson and family were guests near West Union. Adeline Lehman helped her aunt with house duties last week. Ingwald Hauge stayed several days with the Hanson home in Minnesota. Lucy and Elizabeth Christen and Ellen Hanson spent Friday with Mrs. Martin Minihan. Wm. Larson and wife near Hi-Kader visited Jake Dennler's family. Mrs. Louis Christen and Mrs. Hanson met Mrs. Anna Frieden Friday. Celia Frieden of West Union visited grandmother Mrs. Fred Schlupp Saturday. Mrs. Ella Meyer and Georgia visited her parents, Adolph Baumgartner. Mrs. Lars Embretton and Layda Johnson of Bronx Falls visited Thos. Hanson’s family last Tuesday.
The article notes the U S national debt stands at hear ty two and one half billion dalsare, reduced by 220000000 in September. At this rate, debt would be wiped out by 1950, with many current taxpayers no longer living to pay further. An Evans shoe ad lists men’s dress shoes priced at 3.25 3.60 and 4.00.
Hudson's Bay Company operates 185 fur posts across the Arctic to the United States border, with vast networks from Fort McPherson to North Bay Ontario. Posts dot Ontario Quebec Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and flame the Mackenzie Valley. Posts lie within a hundred miles of Quebec Montreal Ottawa Toronto and Winnipeg.
Maj. Fitzroy Gardner, longtime manager of Sir Herbert Tree, recalls humorous anecdotes about a famed actor known for absent mindedness. The star once hailed a cab after leaving a house, prompting a chase by a taxi fleet. another time he hired a dog cart home from a country house, forgetting his horse remained at the livery. Days later the horse was led to the Haymarket stage door, recognized by the tankkeeper.
In a west side school eighth graders study US Presidents. A boy asks what a sage means and another asks what a sage hen is. The pupil replies that a sage hen is a nice chicken, prompting a teacher’s shock and the room to laugh at the misused term.
Fragmentary text depicts residents on porches listening to arteries while a man shouts in his sleep. The scene includes phrases like auction crank and repeated outbursts, with neighbors reacting as a loud night continues.
A Kansas City Star note reports an Emporia hunter killed a bird described as a carpenter-bird, noted for hammer-shaped head and nails on its toes. The bird reportedly used its bill to saw boards for its nest and nails them, a behavior linked to the district south of Bim in past youth.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a Selma-related social event with outings to Hazelton and Vern home gatherings. Mentions Frances Munger, Mrs J Hough and family, and a Thursday evening supper. References to a Ladies auxiliary entertaining their husbands and a miscellaneous Tuesday afternoon in honor of Ear Menara.
An old advertisement text discusses The Youth's Companion and related publications. It mentions furnishing minds with plain repairs and a list of annual items, urging subscriptions at a specified price and address in Boston. The piece reflects period promotional language and catalog-like details.
A Strawberry Point Press snippet notes rats in large batches showing restless, partly blind behavior. The report mentions public interest in distinguishing butter from margarine, reflecting concerns over food value. The observed issues suggest ongoing study and public curiosity about dairy substitutes.
A London Opinion mockingly recalls a notorious war profiteer addressing youths on an eight golf club veranda. The figure boasts of his rise from a Door boy to wealth, while a listener asks about family objections to his notorious example.
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