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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1938
Page
1
A motivational note explains the magnet principle of like attracts like for thoughts. It urges readers to foster constructive, hopeful, optimistic, harmonious, courageous, and confident thinking to attract success, friendship, loyalty, and health through mindful action and duty.
Elgin Iowa council in special session on October 11 1938 votes to extend the water system. A 2 inch line will run from Mill Avenue to Diamond Street then Elmira Street intersection and extend 172 feet north and 64 feet south from the Elmira junction. The resolution is adopted and minutes note adjournment.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration reports 28,807,000 acres across twelve states from 1928 to 1932, rising to 24,730,000 acres in 1937. A separate pamphlet lists 30,436,000 acres in the South. Production yields 491,497,000 bushels in 1937 versus 442,141,000 bushels in the 1928–32 period.
The border from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean spans about 2013 miles. The Canadian boundary excluding Alaska but including the Great Lakes water boundary runs 3987 miles.
The article notes Morg George Schori’s faith with the tale of Ngul the little black horse dying after twenty eight years of service. It recounts local events including an L. C. A. dinner and supper sales, a mishap injuring Sid Rubyer, and community notes on residents, politics, fires, shop changes, and social reminders in a small town.
The narrative recounts travel from Kalmar to Malmo by train, hotel stay at Kramer in Malmo, and a detailed Sweden tour. It describes landscapes, architecture, Lund University, cathedrals, ancient elms, a horse barns complex, oak choir stalls, and a castle, with notes on sugar factories, dairy produce, pop culture of travel timetables, and a rapid transit to Denmark ending Sept 1.
A painted turtle enjoys sunny banks by the water, alert and shy, and dives quickly to flee disturbance. It hides at the slightest noise and remains wary of potential threats near its habitat.
The inhabitants of Iceland, isolated, have preserved their language nearly as it was spoken and written before the fourteenth century.
Distillery at Peoria Tl produces Hiram Walker brands and is described as the largest in the world. It features 12 rack houses ten stories high and 11 bottling lines with a capacity of 700 cases of quarts per hour. Last week one customer ...
A report notes Tomer alone tracked 32 large loads and 2,400 bushels of corn used daily, while green scum on still water appears unattractive yet shows geometrically designed, breathtaking forms under the microscope.
English coins were first dated during the reign of Edward VI, marking the introduction of date marks on currency. This change linked coinage to a specific year, reflecting broader administrative reforms of the mid 16th century.
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