15 Oct 1936
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1936
Page
1
Kathryn J. Strauch is listed as local editor and is entered in the Elgin Iowa post office records as second class main matter in Fayette County.
Rates listed for foreign and local display per inch readers per line and classified per word. Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam cards priced at regular rates. Resolutions of respect and obituary poetry also billed at standard advertising rates. Then a date line showing Thursday October 10 1936 with partially legible pricing.
Bruce Barton argues that fat people brighten life and keep humanity cheerful. He cites Napoleon Johnson Hugo and Dumas as examples of great eaters and jokes that lean folks start wars, praising fatness as a source of joy and resilience.
A column argues that indirect taxes embedded in prices fall mainly on average citizens earning 2000 dollars yearly or less. It notes that over three quarters of purchases are by this group and that tax burden is borne by ordinary people. Also mentions Hi Phillips joke about an old-fashioned woman and a poultry theft at C. H. Whitley farm near Lima.
A 90 year old Grandma Baldwin visited in the Primary room Monday forenoon. Residents attended rallies in West Union to hear Senator Dolliver, with both parties’ candidates active. Des Moines trips and new mail route plans involve Leslie Cooley. Various towns report visits, travel, and local work, including Blanche Smith’s banking firm move and other local movements.
Obedient to divine summons our friend and brother Dr H S Hadsel has answered the Master's call and rests beyond. We mourn a man of labor, faithful service and integrity who earned respect and was a pillar in our society. The Silver Leaf Lodge drapes its room for thirty days and extends sympathy to his son. minutes record this resolution and it is published in the Elgin Echo.
A witty sale in a fashionable jewelry store ends with a humorous line about a watch ring and pearls as customer orders. In Ossian, Philip Schmitz buys the Ossian Furniture Store from Louis Schutte and takes immediate possession, noting the past purchase of Fleischer & Helwig two and a half years earlier. The Ossian Bee remarks that the wise shopper reads the ads regularly.
Work began Saturday night at the railroad crossing on No. 11 as the steel beams for the new bridge arrived. A crew installed girders during three nights, resting the structure on two new cement piers spaced farther from pavement edges. Temporary piers and the center cement pier will be removed, paving will be repaired, and No 11 will be opened, greatly easing travel into Fayette after months of detours.
Superintendent Garvey at the county farm found four gallon cans filled with a good grade of alcohol while harvesting beans. The full cans were turned over to Sheriff Nehring, potentially clearing suspicions about a prior liquor find behind the bean row.
State highway workers repaired a damaged road bed in the west part of Postville and at the 18 and 52 junction west of town. Explosions last summer had damaged the old concrete, which was torn out and replaced with a new mixture.
Bremer County fair ended with a deficit as rain on opening day and poor attendance closing it out. Directors authorized by the fair board to borrow enough money to cover all expenses at a Waverly meeting held last week Wednesday afternoon.
The Milwaukee fastest train the Hiawatha will pass through Postville without stopping Friday evening between 9 20 and 9 30 o clock. This new train will soon run between Chicago and Minneapolis according to the Herald.
A reader asked if delaying a wedding is bad luck and the city editor replied that postponing is fine. Clint Rush has taken 120 cattle with calves in Montana herd moved into Fayette county last July as part of a large shipment.
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