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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1939
Page
2
Wadena social and church notices detail visits and hosting by the Baldwin, Learn, and Leonhart families. Reports mention Presbyterian, Dorcas, and P TA activities, neighborhood travel, and a fire destroying a farm building. Clergy schedules include Wadena A. B. and Presbyterian churches with service times.
Ted arrives with a group of high school students and tells them he will be late home. He calls Mrs Ferguson to explain the delay while the others linger for a Coke. The teens contrast permissive parents with controlling ones, ending with a student hoping for more freedom.
Raymond J. Kelly of Detroit Michigan is likely to be elected National Commander. A 45 year old lawyer and former Detroit Corporation Counsel for six years, he is a Notre Dame and University of Detroit alumnus, married with six children. Echo advertisers urged readers to save money.
Lack of vitamins in teeds causes illness in animals much the same way as in persons. The note highlights how vitamin shortages impair animal health, mirroring human deficiency symptoms and stressing dietary needs for livestock and pets.
The name Eliza, from Elizabeth, shows up across history in presidents wives and notable women. Eliza Kortwright Monroe and Eliza McArdle Johnson bore the name, with figures like Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Eliza Haywood, and Eliza O Neill shaping early American culture and society through leadership, writing, acting, and philanthropy.
A drawing dated 1588 shows an English lady with a muff at the waist. Muffs ranged from costly embroidered skins to velvet and perfumed leather in royal times. The term snoskyn and muff evolved. by 1683 men wore them and feathered muffs and mnuffettee variants appeared.
The earliest cooperative forms appear in dairy, with Jura peasants forming cheese rings to pool milk and center cheese production. By 1722 two cooperative cheese groups are noted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Later societies emerged in Philadelphia, South Carolina, Maine, New York, and Massachusetts between 1785 and 1792.
Porpoises are not fish but mammals of the whale family. They live their lives in water and cannot sustain movement on land. In old seafaring days sailors called them pets as they swam around ships for days. Today their main value is oil.
An Edinburgh correspondent notes a strange monument near Loch Oich surmounted by seven heads. It recalls a Sixteenth century murder in which seven men were executed by clan chief order and the severed heads were washed in a well later called The Well of the Heads at Glengarry Castle.
The mile is not uniform across Europe. Great Britain uses 1,760 yards, while Scotland and Ireland historically differ. Other regions such as Maly Spain and Austria record vastly different mile lengths of 1,407 5,028 and 8,206 yards respectively.
Nutritionist Dr. Sherman urges balancing cost and nutrition through cabbage carrots lettuce and tomatoes as affordable vitamin sources. He notes milk meats and dairy offer calcium and vitamin D, while beans grains and liver provide vitamins B iron and copper.
The article details township election meetings to select committeemen for the 1940 program. Meetings begin Oct 2 with sessions Oct 3 in Highland and Grand Meadow, Oct 4 in Sperry and Volga City, Oct 5 in Farmersburg and Marion. Farm owners urged to attend with wives. educational talks on the Farm Program and foreign situation. Election notices to be mailed shortly.
The new lighting unit seals out dirt moisture and corrosion, increasing road visibility. It emits two beams, a lower beam for city driving and a top beam for country driving, promising greater safety after dark on streets and highways.
Waukon Iowa farmer H G Hagen operates a novel farm mailbox system four miles from his house. A 32-volt motor, powered by a home plant, drives gears to slow a washing machine converted as a moving mailbox along a cable route. Five pulleys hold the wire, and a marker signals arrival. The device travels about two and a half minutes to the road and back.
The item notes trends with corsets returning and silk stockings in vogue while Red Flannel underwear recedes. It also mentions improving mountain railroads and uncertain patent cigar lighters, alongside remarks about Congress displaying inconsistency in the period.
A visitor to Ceylon learns all teas originate from one tree. The tea plant is a tree that, if ungroomed, would reach 20 to 30 feet, but regular pruning keeps it around three feet tall.
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