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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1938
Page
4
The notice lists want ad pricing up to 25 words at 25 cents per insertion and 1 cent per word beyond, plus handling and billing terms. It includes sale items and notices for barrels honey lime stone pumps furnaces and cattle, with names Albert Butikofer Myron Houg R P Strauch Orvin Thompson and mentions Elgin Echo office Waukesha Monona Gunder West Elgin and M C areas with a request to phone news to 20.
A series of social calls and arrivals fill the week in Elgin and surrounding towns. Mr and Mrs Leo Grether visited in the Harry Johnson home Monday evening, Wilma Steinmetz stayed with Sheldon Boyle Thursday and Friday, and Mrs John Johnson visited daughter Mrs Wm Boyle. Dr Harry Keiser of Chicago returned home after a two week hospital stay, while O W Krueger and daughter Ruth came home after a Chicago visit. Alma Pugsley of Garner enjoyed a two day trip to the Iowa state fair after winning an essay prize. A large gathering at the Luchsinger and Hoover homes celebrated Mrs John Luchsinger birthday with a picnic. Norman Clothier and family from Waukegan drove down, with John Berndt and wife taking a Wisconsin fishing trip. B W Conner of Clermont ran the barber shop during Berndt’s absence. Helen and Ruth Reed arrived to begin school in Elgin, with Helen teaching seventh and eighth grades and Ruth entering Elgin High School as a sophomore, remaining this week at Celia Rennison’s home.
A mosaic of brief items from Elgin to Dubuque recounts debt totals, a rodeo, dating chatter, fountaineers, bathing beauties, a West Union golf champ and scores, WPA park work with a Sherman statue, a northwest vacation, an Iowa state fair stop, a jail sentence for a magazine seller, and moralizing travel prose, closing with a curious inquiry and nostalgia.
Elgin locals report family reunion in Rowley at Mrs. H. J. Nenno's home. Fred Hanson departs for Los Angeles after two weeks with relatives. Mrs. C. L. Huisinga brings Mary Keiser home from Aplington. Wilma Steinmetz signs to teach fifth grade in Stanwood. William Weibel travels to St. Paul for a Central States Power job lead and plans to return with news.
Det Sarg Frank Clear points to blood stains on a cross where Edward Collins a former Chicago convict was nailed by two men for wanting to go straight. The sensational incident in Reno Nev draws police attention as investigators probe the motive and participants.
A compact digest of curious factoids tracing origins of terms and items. It notes the term A-1 from Lloyds insurers, Homer translations by Pope and Chapman, salted bear meat as pork substitute, large islands list, Ashland Nebras ka county changes, a prehistoric Hudson Valley note, early incubator use in Paris 1880, and the Philadelphia Shoe Workers union founded in 1792.
Three chairs placed behind the pulpit in churches are described as sedilia. The singular form of the term is sedile, used to denote a single chair in ritual or architectural contexts.
A report notes fifty islands in Lake Champlain and records there are zero inland water bodies within the lake. Separate item states Clay Supply is Texas offering every ceramic clay type except ball clay available in the state.
Still time to build that Dennison Insulated block side. Willie boasts of killing flies while three sit on a bottle and two on a mirror. Johnny questions male versus female flies, and Willie explains. Snappy Sam questions Si’s bull, Ready Rube jokes about life and work, while Old Colored Mammy asks for a Magnolia ticket as a weary Ticket Agent browses through notes.
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