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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1922
Page
6
A clipped vignette from a Kansas City Star piece mocks small town reputations. It notes how locals judge appearance and behavior, with a landlord describing Smackover as a place where decency may invite suspicion of scandal. The text contrasts inner character with outward whitewash.
Washington reports a cabinet review on Prohibition showing a complete breakdown in liquor law enforcement and growing contempt for law. President Harding and aides seek ways to strengthen enforcement and win public support to curb violations, urging a conscience driven appeal to citizens.
Washington November 25 congressman John W Rainey called for a three senator and four member house investigating committee to probe a Klan initiation at the U S Capitol in full regalia and to examine claims that state war and navy buildings were used for Klan ceremonies.
Washington news reports President Harding will extend federal control of coal distribution to January 1. C. S. Spens, the federal fuel distributor, urged resignation but agreed to remain in service and oversee present supervision or a modification through the year’s end.
Fort Madison Iowa November 25 Sheriff W B Robb a former pastor carried out his second legal hanging executing Orrie Cross condemned slayer of George Fosdick andDex Moses grocer Eugene Weeks implicated in the Fosdick murder had been hanged by Robb on September 16.
Washington notices November 25 report President Harding will not reappoint W P G Harding to the Federal Reserve Board after senate farm bloc protests. Caliph Abdul Medjid Hilend ascends as supreme caliph in Constantinople. Ward Bakery fortune goes to daughters in White Plains New York as widow Catherine Ward leaves most of her 2,000,000 estate.
William Lackey, a Chicago chef, says two years of indigestion left him unable to work. After using Tanlac he reports a 15 pound gain, improved appetite, and steady digestion enabling him to work daily. Tanlac is sold by druggists.
A recalled family gathering reveals jealousy among cousins stepsisters and half siblings as a name Marle surfaces repeatedly. An aunt quips that Marle is Mary styled as Marguerite noting Maggie is 28 years old.
A fragmented 1920s style column blends reminiscences of succotash and Indigenous cooking with gossip about a railway station ticket line and a photographer's note on paper screens. It weaves domestic humor, social commentary, and obscure editorial asides into a single read.
A humorous note on how suggestion and perception shape feeling. An anecdote contrasts two men debating cold weather in an elevator, one claiming 86 degrees by a thermometer while the other dismisses the reading, illustrating auto suggestion in daily perception.
In a Philadelphia Press fragment, Counter-Threat, Little Tonary Boggs and the boy next door clash in a back yard. A stone hit Tommy and he vows to call his dog while the neighbor taunts him and threats escalate, with talk of the mother. The quip ends with a wry line about pessimism and timid mortals.
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