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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1934
Page
3
A reflective note on propaganda and public apathy contrasts with South Dakota reports that Russian thistle will feature prominently in winter meals. Widespread thistle use is linked to scarce produce, with one woman reportedly canning 80 quarts. CCC workers harvest and prepare thistle as livestock feed.
U S Department of Agriculture workers led by Wid. Best Jr. removed common barberry shrubs in eastern Fayette County to halt black stem rust in crops. The program targets the invasive bush, destroyed by trenching and salting, while Japanese barberry is not to be harmed. Residents urged to report suspected bushes to Clermont or the paper.
The sketches distinguish common barberry as a rust source with saw-tooth leaves threeset thorns gray bark and yellow inner parts, from Japanese barberry which is rust harmless with smooth leaves and usually single thorns and red-brown bark while sharing similar roots.
The American Boy magazine cuts remaining prices to attract youth readers with a half fare. Three year subscriptions drop from 3.50 to 2.00 while annual price goes to 1.00. Editor Griffith Ogden Ellis touts unchanged content and quality. Also notes adventurous journalism and wide travel for material. United States treasury reports 104 million dollars revenue from hard liquor sales in seven months.
Cement is being poured on the inner land wall of the river rock at Guttenberg. Large rocks from the quarry fill the space between heavy timber pilings, topped with cement to form a smooth durable wall. Pilings driving finished. concrete pours continue in steel and wooden forms. Monoliths of steel and concrete towers and buttresses rise with tunnels showing water flow through them.
Clayton county farmers who took corn loans last winter are releasing part of their crop this fall with high prices, enabling easy loan repayment. Of 108 loans, 58 have been released, with no charge for release of the recorded instrument. Notably Ben Matt of near National released 3,000 bushels, the first loan recipient, for the entire amount.
The rule of law hinges on widespread willingness to act lawfully even without enforcement. The idea emphasizes self restraint, norms, and social trust as core for legal order.
A Chester man facing charges for seventy seven thefts since release eight months earlier, with goods valued at £1900. Reports note German Peter Filck confessed to 430 thefts in a year, value £3400, and other thieves in Paris and France boasting hundreds of burglaries and diaries recording up to 1800 crimes totaling over £20,000.
A new MIT announced electrical furnace uses a glass vacuum tube with three electrodes to create hot spots in hydrogen gas. These points emit proton streams nine times stronger than prior methods, boiling the gas at ultra high localized temperatures while surrounding gas stays cool.
Alexander Hamilton’s old home Hamilton Grange rises as a New York city show spot. Built about 1801 it hosted statesmen before Hamilton’s fatal duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. Widowed Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton sold it, later bought by a church, then by the American Science and Historical Preservation Society in 1924. The house was renovated, relics conserved, and opened as a museum by Pathfinder Magazine.
The French academy dictionary committee recommends adding Polla to the dictionary with the definition French soldier of the front line trenches during the war of 1914 18. The term has long been used popularly for any war wearing the uniform and now affectionately applied to French army soldiers.
The Delphian Society, a national women's educational group, operates chapters in every state except Vermont and Rhode Island. It reports about 250,000 members across 3,500 chapters, with up to 30 chapters forming city federations. Its aims include higher education, social progress, and personal improvement.
Reports from Moscow claim famine may end as Rusela predicts no repeat of last winter's catastrophe where about 4 million died. The 1933 harvest allegedly improved with more even distribution and greater grain share to peasants, suggesting Thigla may avert another disaster.
Saint Maur Observatory records in Paris over fifty years show rainy and clear days almost equal with two numbers near balance. The data highlights long term weather variability and balanced day types in the period.
A quoted exchange questions whether a diplomat can be truthful. The reply suggests diplomats may delay revealing truth as they seek it. The remark highlights tensions between honesty and strategic timing in diplomacy.
Cincinnati Enquirer notes how she and he were asked about appearances and reactions, with emphasis on mutual gaze and social cues, while dismissing attention to others in a brief descriptive moment.
Grand Meadow residents visit homes and attend events with many neighbors listed. Illness at Herman Burans home prompts family calls. Attendance at Elkader teachers meeting and various Sunday visits. Olive Olson and Amundsons, Olson and Amundson families, and others are mentioned with daily life updates and small community actions.
Olson family members and guests attended a Sunday dinner at the Clifford Osmundson home. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Olson and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wharram, along with Albert Olson and Mary from nearby. Olson assisted as hostess.
A poem-like piece from the Portland Oregonian retells biblical imagery to critique political leadership. The speaker laments unemployment and poverty while a political figure is depicted as shepherd, leading to financial strain, taxation, and a mortgaged life. The verse adopts biblical cadence to mock policy effects.
Thirty five trial jurors have been selected for the October term of court in Clayton county. The session opens Monday October 8 and jurors report the following Monday at 10:00 o clock. Named jurors include James Olson Oscar Baumgartner Will Yearous Edwin Moritz from northwest Clayton county.
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