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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1929
Page
1
Published every Thursday by R P Strauch and entered at Higin post office Iowa as second class matter.
A 1929 editorial explains that merchants who do not advertise effectively subsidize competitors. It argues that losing customers to competitors’ ads shifts profits from the nonadvertising merchant to the advertising one, since the indifferent merchant ultimately pays for the ad through lost sales. It underscores the hidden cost of nonadvertising.
An Elkader Register editorial argues drunk driving endangers road users and demands strict enforcement. It states booze users who burn up highways are as dangerous as armed criminals and calls for authorities and the public to keep drunken drivers off the roads, citing safety as priority.
A. H. Freiberg, New Albin banker, was fined 2662.50 plus 48.20 costs after pleading guilty to embezzlement. Bond set at 5000, with jail time possible if the fine is unpaid. He was brought to Waukon after an arrest in La Crosse and bound over for the September term.
Reports to Iowa State College warn that traveling salesmen offer fake chemical weed killers across Iowa. Only one chemical mix, sodium and calcium chlorates, is claimed to kill underground parts of quack grass Canada thistle and European morning glory. Other mixtures kill only plant tops and may poison soil or livestock if arsenic or creosote are present.
McGregor Times reports road work on Highway 18 blocks traffic as pavers move into McGregor. Cement has been laid from Peter Schumacher corner to the south end of the tourist park and four miles to Washburns, with 45 trucks hauling cement from Frolich. Completion expected by early October barring bad weather.
More calves are expected to compete at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo from September 30 to October 6 than in previous years. Town’s junior dairymen will show all their stock as classes are split boosting the cash premiums for 1929 to near double. A record number of calves will compete with judging and awards on Saturday October 5 and a banquet for juniors following.
Allamakee county will vote on a primary bond issue October 8. This will be the first bond issue for the county, reflecting local public finance decisions.
Educational exhibits will predominate at the Twentieth Annual Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo from September 30 to October 6. Displays will come from the Bureau of Dairying culture the State Department of Agriculture the National Dairy Council and farm bureaus of several counties along with demonstrations and plays to supplement the materials.
A woman tells her husband a railroad crossing watchman said women are better drivers. The husband replies that they may be, since they have nobody in the back seat giving orders.
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