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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1932
Page
2
A long list of visitors and local movements fills Wadena area pages. Residents visit relatives in Delaware Fayete Arlington and Elk regions while others travel to Waterloo Waterloo, Volga City and Oelwein. Boy Scout Troop 77 and local clubs hold meetings as students return to Parson College and area schools.
A humorous Omaha World-Herald piece muses on Job's boils and the imagined misery of adding bunions. The writer jokes that even one bunion would force Job to abandon his neutrality and curse God, using playful language on onions, toes, and stings.
A parasite named Tiphia popilisavora, imported from Japan in 1920, has grown from small colonies to cover three and a half square miles in New Jersey. It attacks Japanese beetle grubs by burrowing to inject eggs, with larvae feeding on the grub body until mature.
Bootmaker Thomas Bata of Zlin Czechoslovakia transformed postwar industry by creating a vast footwear operation. His factory now employs 2,500 workers producing 100,000 pairs daily, prompting the building of a town of 15,000 inhabitants. Bata uses airplanes to distribute samples and maintains a small private air force.
Mary Ann Miller born in Fayette county Iowa on March 18 1860 died September 10 1982 aged 72 years five months and 22 days She married Adolph Baumgartner on March 16 1888 at Elkader Iowa They lived on a farm east of Elgin and raised eight children Surviving are Adolph and six children Martha Muth Oscar Ida Meyer William Ernest and Elmer among siblings and fourteen grandchildren two great grandchildren Funeral held at German Apostolic church Cheery Valley burial in Apostolic cemetery Card of Thanks from Adolph Baumgartner and children Brothers and sister
A noted Colton quotation extols the natural gentleman who blends intimacy with dignity, avoiding familiarity or servility, and remains flawless in conduct independent of rank or circumstance. The line frames gentility as inherent virtue rather than earned status.
A woman rushing to Soandso Maternity Hospital to visit Mrs Fosdick hires a taxi, speeds through streets at high pace, elicits police escort then faints at the hospital, and returns home after a chaotic scene with nurses and a shocked driver.
A famous Berlin circus owner announces his candidacy for the vacant Berlin burgomaster office claiming the job mirrors his current circus work. Jokers joke about traffic and city life resembling a circus ring and note his skill at managing cosmopolitan performers could aid city governance.
Vienna scientist Dr. Ferdinand Ringer unveils the Eternal Match claimed to light 600 times before failing. The invention is touted as a major commercial breakthrough of the present century with potential wide use.
In a sharp Senate exchange, an unnamed orator’s belief in his own words is questioned. Senator Sorghum challenges the speaker’s intellectual responsibility, prompting a brief retort. The Washington Star notes the clash as a study in rhetoric and accountability.
The Canadian census will be conducted this year counting every domesticated animal from cats to bees. Town dwellers must answer forty questions, a limit compared with the six hundred asked of farm respondents.
During a church service two women meet and one jokes about a bald man in the choir. The other replies that the bald man is her husband, provoking a brief, light moment of embarrassment.
Dialogue snippet shows Billy asking how his mother found he did not bathe while Betty references a missed bath. The line attributes blame to forgetting to wet the soap in a Boston Transcript context.
Pathfinder Magazine reports a humorous claim that a disease named Bridge shin arises when a husband across from his wife forgets trumps during bridge. The piece treats it as a light, fictional notion rather than medical fact and cites playful bench commentary on table etiquette.
A Dutch cheese named after Edam in North Holland derives its name from the town where the sweet milk cheese is produced in the region.
Production of rolled sheet iron in Bohemia dates back before 1620. It was introduced to Wales in 1720.
Heavy copper wire cages protect forest lookout stations in the northern Rocky Mountains from lightning strikes. The devices cover elevated wooden structures to channel electricity safely into grounding systems, reducing fire risk and equipment damage for rangers and researchers stationed at remote sites.
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