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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1905
Page
6
A reflective piece recalling the simple songs a mother sang to lull a child. It names melodies like Hazel Dell and Sweet By and By, Suwanee River, My Old Kentucky Home, and Home Sweet Home, and laments the mother’s passing while imagining her spirit singing in heaven. The narrator longs to hear those lullabies again.
In a Warverley Magazine tale, Uncle Henry exposes Edward Vickroy as obsequious to the rich and cruel to the poor. Julia Denham rejects Vickroy after Uncle Henry reveals his true character, choosing a more worthy match a year later.
An old gambler recalls a strange tale from Vittshuea Kansas ten years ago. After a funeral for Kid Jackson a rabbit leaped from a thicket into the grave. The pallbearers decided to auction the rabbit's hind foot, raising bids from 9 to 90 dollars. The event overshadowed the burial and became a noted superstition among gamblers.
A fragment from the Cinelniati Tribune reports a visit to a city entertainment event. A woman, noting a hen party, says she loved the show while others describe renewed interest in the venue.
In Poplat two farmers near town killed his daughters aged 10 and 13 while they slept and then died by suicide. Nelson had been suspected in the long-unsolved disappearance of Francis Richardson, a money lender. An effort to locate Richardson's body involved a spiritualist, and authorities believe he killed his daughters to avoid charges.
A Des Moines baker, Mra A. FB, reports visions that connect a six year old disappearance near Audubon to a murder. She describes excavations near a Richardson farm tree yielding a human skeleton believed to be the missing man. The case sparked sensational theories, but no trace of the Indiana girl or the Tani reservation case has emerged. The river search extends to Iowa City with a belief of murder and dumping.
A sweeping Iowa page reports multiple deaths including David Copailinger crushed by a tree and Ton Davis killed by a fall. It notes injuries to Hol Anderson and hospital care after head injuries. Public health actions, trials for horse stealing, meteorite finds, and local political shifts fill a frantic rundown of 19th century events.
A fragmentary report notes stranded islanders on the Isle of Pines awaiting winter provisioning and ship service from Gaba, with boats not running and United States relief anticipated. Other items mention a murder suspect Whistler, a farmer Ogden found dead, and local civic and university notices.
A Muslin newspaper the Son of the Motherland notes the Manchurian venture cost the nation heavily with figures for casualties and matériel. It cites 27,000 Austrians wounded and 92,000 Russians captured or killed, and lists ammunition and matériel losses as well as a suggested reallocation of funds to domestic needs totaling about 1 billion.
Roosevelt ousts Canal Commission, accepts resignations of all commissioners, seeks reorganization. Theodore P. Shonts named head of the restructured board, with Wallace as chief engineer and several former engineers to oversee various sections. Negotiations reportedly centered on salaries for top executives, with hints the President aimed to hire prominent railway men at high pay.
A jumble of political and war era phrases references Castro Pryele nt, Russian warship patrols, and various trusts. Mentions labor leaders salary forty thousand and a half, tensions over beef and tobacco trusts. Not a coherent event, but a collection of scattered opinions and headlines.
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