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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1938
Page
3
Towa National entered in the post office at Clermont Iowa as second class mail matter for Clermont Fayette County newspaper notices and official notices.
As schools resume, parents are urged to teach children to be careful on the way to school. Cross at intersections after looking both ways, walk on the left on highways, and step off the road if needed. Daily reminders about school patrols and safe crossing are essential to reduce accidents.
The figures Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were nicknamed The Baker and The Baker's Wife after they gave bread to the starving mob at Versailles on October 6 1789.
A survey of Iowa farming details covers corn fodder use for hogs and silage in dairy rations, noting 42 of 100 ears fed to hogs and 25 pounds daily silage per Jersey cow, with practical tips on silage composition, heat in silos, weed control chemicals, and seed testing. It also mentions turkey growers forming a state association and a description of Jaipur, the Pink City, India.
The harp eagle is described as having the most powerful feet among birds of prey with toes as thick as a man's thumb and claws as large as a bear, illustrating its formidable grasp and hunting prowess.
Sugar cane workers use the machete for cutting cane while others view it as a general utility tool. The average machete is described with a blade length of 22 inches and a width of 14 inches.
Lake Erie ranks as the eleventh largest lake worldwide with an area of 9,960 square miles.
Prax tales from Greece note silvering mirrors in the fourth century. A seal-like dyed lamb skin named Mouton is moisture resistant and durable. The Cincinnati baseball club formed as the first salaried team in 1868. The stratosphere was discovered above France near Paris in 1902.
Clermont community and nearby towns show a busy social cycle with visits across Oelwein West Union Decorah Cedar Rapids and other areas. Residents include Mae and Emmet Carlin Belle Ocker Charles Regan Ruth Hangartner and several families enjoying calls visits and a fishing day at Elkader. A moving piano offer and notices of a former resident's death are also noted.
Last Thursday and Friday residents traveled to Cedar Rapids and Decorah for institutes and hospital visits. A quarantine was ordered for two weeks after Annabelle Loftsgard Wat returned home from Decorah hospital. Model T Ford derby in Waukon drew crowd from Clermont with Howard Larson and a partner taking finals. A seven-person crew set up a mattress repair shop in the former Double building. Funeral guests for Mrs. G. E. Dibble came from Waterville Postville Hawkeye Farmersburg and West Union.
Hampton Roads derives its name from the nearby town of Hampton Virginia. The term road or roads references a ship roadstead a sheltered anchorage outside a harbor. The area was the site of the first ironclad clash the Merrimack versus the Monitor.
A remark notes how the word minster became a corruption of monastery, affecting the identity of many English sites once linked to religious houses and tourism. It discusses how visitors and locals perceive the heritage of those famed abbeys and cathedrals.
A report notes that a person living in the Far North has a body temperature nearly identical to someone in the steaming tropics, highlighting a surprising physiological similarity despite harsh climate differences.
The Mohammedans credit Abraham with the invention of the alphabet and the founding of astronomy. More than 400 fish species have been observed in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine tenths of all living creatures on earth are insects.
This note defines racing bets: a straight bet means betting to win. A place bet means wagering on the horse finishing second, while a show bet covers finishing third.
The use of kilts history sets few precedents for the garment. Once common people wear, it is now worn with pride by Scotch nobles. England banned it in the eighteenth century and later revived it as part of Highland regiments uniforms.
Flowery Canberra Canberra, the federal capital of Australia, sits in a vast amphi theater in the foothills of the Australian Alps about 200 miles from Sydney. It is a garden city with wattle blossoms and flowering almond, cherry, peach and plum. Long avenues of decorative trees frame white buildings.
Lawthorn Missouri designates hawthorn as the official state flower. The hawthorn, with over 125 species in Missouri, marks a natural emblem for the state and its botanical diversity.
In mammals the total abstainers from water are vegetarians, while among birds the majority of meat eaters can dispense with drinking water.
John Dalton, an English scientist born 1766, had color blindness. From studying the condition he coined the term color blindness or Daltonism to describe it.
Coffee is harvested in Mexico from October to February. In Central America two or three pickings are required due to unequal crop maturity.
Pleasant adjuncts to traveling the high roads of Jamaica in the British West Indies are the musical bells attached to horse drawn vehicles and tuned alike, resembling a small carillon.
In the era of the French Revolution earnest intellectual Socialists met nightly at each other’s homes. No food or drink was served to avoid envy over who had better wine or food.
A diagram map shows Hitler s advance into Czechoslovakia focusing on the Sudetenland. The Krumau District has been invaded amid Czech scorched earth scenes as other areas in the Token Area are numbered by occupation progress ahead of a permanent border.
London radiophoto shows Prime Minister Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth and King George last week as he briefs the king on the four power conference at Munich. The image lists Queen Elizabeth, Chamberlain, Mrs Chamberlain, and King George from left to right.
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