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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1938
Page
8
Residents and visitors fill the week with travels to Chicago Des Moines Waterloo Dubuque and Wisconsin. Families including McKellar Yearous Foxwell Frieden Medberry and Rothlisberger host, visit, or travel to Elks clubs churches and hospitals, with many meals and birthdays noted.
A long list of social visits and hosting across families in Cheery Valley. Mr and Mrs Levi Frieden travel to Fairfax Minnesota to visit relatives including Hindermann Thoman Dennler and others. Numerous dinners and suppers are listed with Schupbach Dennler Wackerle and Baumgartner households among the hosts and guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Friederich and family and Mrs. Rosa Baumgartner were guests in the Hanson Bros. home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Dennler were business visitors in Oelwein Saturday. Ernest Christen Lucy Christen and Clara Muehlenthaler spent Sunday evening in the Bert Thoman home. Sam Schneider was a guest in the Tofield Lehman home Sunday afternoon.
The Oak Grove column lists numerous weekend visits and overnight stays. Howard Boyle and Eldred Dummermuth hosted guests. Lawrence Cannon and family visited in Hans Winkie’s home. Joe Chapman and Fred Rinkert joined dinners in Jim Muncie’s home. Various trips include Madison Wisconsin to Baraboo and Devil’s Lake.
The government orders hotels and restaurants to purify language by removing foreign words such as hors d oeuvre and consomme from menus. Proprieties must comply to avoid language clutter and maintain national terminology. The decree targets excessive loanwords and aims to standardize German menu wording.
Whales are observed lifting two-thirds of their length out of the water before plunging back down to shake off parasites in a dramatic display reported by marine observers.
Brainard news covers moves from the Reder farm to near West Union by Mr. and Mrs. Lenten Dyke, visitors from Cedar Rapids and Chicago at local homes, church and camp meeting in Charles City, and noted travel of Elsie Belknap and others. The Brainard school opens September 5 with Marian Patterson as teacher, and church notes list Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. and preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. A. R. Belknap pastor.
Police recruitment in Prague prioritizes feminine appearance and demeanor. Applicants must meet height and strength standards and excel in sports with jiu jitsu a key training element. The program stresses maintaining a "completely feminine outlook on life" alongside policing skills.
A claim asserts Brazil's land area surpasses the continental United States by 250 thousand square miles, highlighting a surprising geographic fact without context or sources.
New York elevated rail driver ends a 52 year career with perfect punctuality. He claims to have traveled a total distance equal to four trips to the moon and back during his tenure, never missing a shift.
Chocolate is obtained from the cacao bean, a plant native to tropical America. The bean is harvested from Theobroma cacao trees and processed into headquarters products. The origins highlight a long history of cultivation and trade across regions in the Americas.
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