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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
6
Des Moines reports indicate the Iowa General Assembly shows little appetite for a special session to fund the second liberty loan. Governor Harding and Speaker Milton Pitt urge patience, pro-rating plans, and serving without pay if convened.
War department notices transfer of fifteen Iowa officers from Ft Snelling to aviation training at Princeton including Hugo Bottger Paul Calder Marcus Dunbel Clifford Ferguson and others. Mines near Des Moines may be government run. local operators expect losses but welcome control. Car crash near Oskaloosa injures Francis Simmons Jr and family. Dean William F Russell named new education college head at state university succeeding Walter Jessup. Camp Dodge incidents and mail procedures outlined for soldiers. Serious accidents and poison death cases reported near Oska loosa Muscatine and Sydney. Royal Flying Corps news and local youth training in China and war work updates. Fire station in Sioux City and French study class in Muscatine noted.
A parent tells a young man his daughter has had everything she wants. The suitor replies she needs lessons in self denial, a witty barb reported by the Birmingham Age Herald.
A Cincinnati authority endorses freezone as a cheap treatment for corns and calluses. Apply directly to tender areas, and the corn loosens and lifts out with root intact without pain. A small bottle costs little at any drug store, and it supposedly does not irritate surrounding skin.
Deputy Sheriff Media arrested 1 L. Stith in Los Angeles after an alleged attempt to move a house owned by Fred Rubio from Bell station onto wheels. Tenant Tomasi Sanchez and family were at the beach when Rubio intervened, claiming owed money and preventing the removal.
A youth with football glory but poor grades moves between prep schools. After about a week at the new school a faculty member asks how he finds it. The boy replies that it is "pretty fair" but warns the field is rough in places.
A clever woman named Gladys joins an open bing club and prepares to read a learned paper. Critics note she cannot cook and has not spent fifteen minutes in a kitchen since birth, yet she pursues knowledge without questioning.
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