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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1923
Page
8
A Popular Mechanics illustrated article describes a six spindle chucking machine with five operable spindles and one loading spindle. It handles twenty nine cutting tools and performs multiple operations in one cycle, automatically stopping to replace finished pieces.
An old advertisement promotes Ball’s Catarrh Medicine claiming to cure local catarrh through a tonic that acts via the blood on mucous surfaces. It asserts quick relief from symptoms and notes Toledo Ohio as the address of FS Jrea Co.
An oyster from Delaware bay aged eighty years is reported. Scientists explain age by shell ridges or waterlines, with one ridge each year to forty, then one every ten years. The venerable oyster showing 44 ridges indicates an eighty year age.
A fragmented note describes yellow aconite and snowdrop as prelude heralds of spring. The speaker, referencing Ward and Howered company J, evokes a rolling face and a welcome to the season with lilting imagery and early flower symbolism.
John A Best of the currency comptroller's bureau in Washington was named receiver for Springfield National Bank of Springfield Ohio after it closed. Other items note prohi enforcement talks, naval training for cadets, rubber plantations in Colombia, and various global news highlights from the era.
Williamson county jury of seven farmers, one student, one union painter, one merchant, and two union miners clears Hugh Willis and five co defendants of murder in the Herrin massacre case. Verdicts read by foreman John Caughlin after six hours amid tense courtroom retreat.
President Harding, speaking at a Augusta dinner, warned against the rise of bloc organization and class envy in the United States. He said the nation faces danger from sectionalism and urged vigilance against developing political blocs and jealousies.
Washington April 7 A treasury committee near completion on a general design revision for all paper money will hand over proposals to Secretary Mellon. If approved the $2 bill long spurned by gamblers and kept for superstition will be the first to be retired.
Mrs J Miller of 110 Johnston Ave Kearny NJ says she gained strength and happiness after taking Tanlac. She suffered a year of stomach trouble and weakness, lost appetite, and heart palpitations yet gained five pounds and improved digestion and appetite. Tanlac is sold by all druggists advertisement.
Archaeologists reveal a site in southern Norway where what is believed to be a Viking queen’s tomb was found. The chamber included a furnished kitchen, beds, loom, and complete gear for the afterlife, reflecting northern pagan customs and anticipated future life.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant herbal medicine for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims purity strength and quality with bottles in two sizes and urges readers to request a sample or send for information from Dr Kilmer Co at Binghamton New York.
Delaware notes the whipping post dating to 1654 at the old Swedish fort site in New Castle County. The original pillory remains in the courthouse yard as a relic. A ship passage through the Panama Canal takes about ten hours.
St Louis postal inspectors believe the nine pouches of registered mail stolen by five bandits Monday contain bonds and other valuables totaling about 2 304 100 dollars. Most of the loot is non negotiable bonds, investigators say.
Washington announces 64% rediscount rate under the farm credits act will raise farmers’ interest to 7 percent. Indiana road program plans 958 miles of hard surface highways costing about $2,311,000 over three years. Nashville dynamite blast injures several and damages dozens of homes.
A reflective line notes that a man discovers many things he disapproves of only when his own daughter reaches the age of sixteen, implying evolving parental attitudes as adolescence begins.
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