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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1938
Page
4
An old Echo page advertises a full winter job paying 59 cents per typewritten word. It seeks at least 25 farmers in the community who own a car and are over 25. Complete training provided, with strong future business potential. Respond with full details to Box X, care of Echo.
Mr and Mrs Ziba Tripp and Mary Lou left Friday for Jandsville Wisconsin after an extended visit with T W Dean. Fred Heide and daughter of Kansas spent Tuesday here with cousin F C Muehlenthaler and family. R W Muehlenthaler returned Saturday from a trip to Oconomowoc Chicago and other spots. Carl Alleman and family head to Broken Bow Oklahoma after visiting S W Kuster. Fleet Frieden returned Saturday after a week at Lake Vermillion Tower Minnesota. Alfred Jacob Rosa Jacob and John Schaer with family enjoyed a picnic at Archie Schroeder's near Postville. Dr L S Hutchinson is adding a composition shingle roof and other improvements to modernize his home.
A physician urges the aging Queen Elizabeth to go to bed, but she rebukes him declaring the word must not be used to kings. The remark underscores her imperious bearing and royal resolve in final moments.
The P. E. O. sorority originated at Town Wesleyan college in 1870 when seven senior girls formed it. It remains the only national sorority independent of a fraternity, organized on neither financial nor sectarian support, with a uniquely secret character.
Detroit Free Press recounts an Indian legend of two colossal turtles migrating from Lake Michigan beachheads near St Joseph to New Buffalo and Grand Mere. They nested in sand, defended eggs with decoy mounds, and over centuries the dunes grew from Indiana line to the straits while turtles shrank to palm-sized. A discovered 14 by 12 foot shell with human skeleton supports the tale.
The Bay of Fundy tides produce a daily double performance with 40 foot ebb and flow altering the shoreline and creating oddities such as a highway reached island and ox cart fishing. Nearby Maine and New Brunswick host Minister's Island near St Andrews by the Sea, where high tide requires boat crossing and low tide reveals a pebbly bottom. Seventy miles north Saint John sees river falls reverse as Fundy surge sends the river racing inland, giving rise to the name Reversing Falls.
An eyewitness account from June 24, 1876, describes the burial of 212 Custer’s men after the battle. Troops, except those tending the wounded, moved at dawn to inter the dead. Ground was hard and tools limited, delaying some graves while officers and enlisted men were marked. Custer himself was buried beneath a large mound.
The Detroit News essay explores language as any expression of thought from baby sounds to dog communication. It notes that only simple thoughts can be spoken without words and cites music, math, and symbols as other means of expression. It reflects on evolution and the possibility that early human communication relied on gestures and cries.
A Washington Post writer notes ventriloquists, once called belly speakers, form words via breathing control rather than stomach voices. Ancient peoples reportedly mastered ventriloquism to animate statues of pagan gods.
French anthropologist Prof. Henri Valois concludes Europe’s Stone Age had no graybeards among grand Pas and that women rarely lived beyond forty. The era is described as a youth dominated period based on his studies.
The Inca capital Cuzco, built on ancient ruins, features the massive fortress of Sacsahuaman with huge stones fitted together like pillows without mortar or cement. Inca stonework is capped by adobe residences with balconies and grilled windows.
Elgin High School reports the senior class of 1939 with 20 members, electing officers for a Home Economics club and noting freshmen initiation by seniors plus new faculty member initiations. History class heard Hitler's radio address. daily wise sayings begin opening exercises. seventh and eighth graders engage in geography, sports, and letters to a hospital patient. several students move or return to school.
The famous American humorist Artemas Ward delighted audiences with a lecture pause joke. He would announce a quarter hour intermission then continue the talk during the break with a sly flourish.
In the war’s final year General Robert E. Lee proposed a gradual emancipation of enslaved people. The remark appeared amid broader discussions on war aims and postwar policy. News notes reflect shifting views within Confederate leadership.
Elgin residents hosted and visited relatives in nearby towns over the weekend. Mrs. A. Snyder and Mrs. Martha Chapman hosted gatherings while Ione Torkelson celebrated her ninth birthday with friends and family at Mrs. C. O. Torkelson’s home. Attendees included Avis and Dorian Mark Colleen and Dick Roberts Bertha Casper Betty and Ben Schori Otis Ivan and Dean Torkelson Theresa and Betty Snyder Norma Dorothy and Delores Torkelson.
A note explains sand grouse in India sit on their eggs not to warm them but to keep them cool. exposure to the sun would cook the eggs if the birds are driven away briefly, a natural adaptation observed on the plains.
Candidate for Governor Mr. Wilson Bias Moines is set to deliver the main address at Wildwood in Oelwein this Thursday evening. A Wilson dinner at Hotel Mealey follows at 6 30 with about 300 Fayette county Republicans expected in attendance.
The text argues that when one sense falters, others enhance. It claims blind people develop heightened touch and hearing, and notes music as an area of excellence for the blind. It mentions many piano tuners are blind as examples of compensatory ability.
Wise farmers raise more livestock as corn tops expectations, anticipating better prices for crops and the chance to expand hog houses and shed space. The message urges readers to call about lumber, roofing, cement, and paint, highlights the virtue of experience, and ends with a nudge toward using Martin-Senour 109% Pure Paint.
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