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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
1
The work centers on Mathilde Thorne and Jem Stewart in a practical romance that teaches love after marriage. Readers are drawn by natural scenes and incidents, with the tale presented as a clean bright portrayal of everyday life. The serial is praised as one of several superior offerings secured for readers.
On the ill fated mid December passage of the steamship St Lawrence the sea evacuees endure harsh weather. Miss Thorne captivates male passengers while Captain Kerr and Mr Stewart observe, as glancing memories and themes of lost prosperity surface amid the storm tossed voyage.
A farmer asks if bantam and fancy fowls can be raised confined. The Indiana Farmer notes that with proper attention fowls of any breed can thrive in confinement, though costs rise. Provide full feed, keep them busy, and prevent bad habits. many excellent specimens come from confinement.
Hardy pompon chrysanthemums cheer winter gardens from central to southern latitudes. They resist frost, bloom after frosts, and offer striking color masses of crimson and pink. Simple to grow, propagate from cuttings October to May, plant in well drained soil, and keep crimson and pink varieties separate. Indianapolis News.
Practical rural tips on maintaining orchards with seasonal plowing and weekly soil work, adding a road drag for dry-ground use, and managing poultry and sheep needs. Guidance covers costs to stock modern farm forms, economics of poultry versus orchard investment, feed and grit, warm water for ewes, and butter fat yields from cream with tests. Also notes Nova Scotia apple valuations as a model for boosting land value elsewhere.
C W Bemis advises planting fruit trees in spring with large holes filled with loam and soil firmed around roots. A board shields bark from sun on first summer to prevent sunburn. A 4 inch mulch of coarse manure recommended to conserve moisture instead of surface watering, per A Joomis in the American Cultivator.
Farmers' Guide advises soaking seed potatoes for two hours in a solution of one pint formalin to thirty gallons of water to reduce scab. Manure may promote growth but does not cause scabby potatoes. Crop rotation and thorough seed treatment are key, with careful growers applying the formalin method annually.
Prof W D Brittan notes sprays of scalecide at 1 part chemical to 15 parts water reduced living scales significantly. In fall 1905 and March 29 examination showed few scales. Mr Ives and Mr Plant sprayed hundreds of trees with satisfactory results keeping scale in check.
A Farmers' Home Journal note asserts that a vendor who brands his fruit packages with his name earns higher sales. Named products signal trusted quality, and customers recognize the name as a guarantee of honest packing and goods.
St Marys Church Dover will switch to using plates instead of collection bags. The change follows reports of many buttons found inside the bags, prompting concern over loss and misplacement during services.
A medallion honoring M Laveran has been placed in the military hospital at Constantine Algiers where he first discovered the malaria parasite in 1880.
President Thomas I. Lewis of the United Mine Workers announced Thursday night that a new working agreement with anthracite operators will be signed before next week’s end. The contract rests on a operator submission and includes concessions, with union tri-district approval needed in Scranton. It would recognize anthracite groups, not as a UMWA branch, and set wages per the strike commission scale, likely no wage increase but possible readjustments at new collieries.
A night attempt to free James H. Boyle, jailed for alleged kidnapping of Willie Whitin in Mercer County, Pa, was thwarted by night watchman Robert Truit who found a ladder under Boyle’s window. Authorities identified the female suspect as Anna McDermott of Chicago, with links to a Sharon family, amid past alias reports and a probe by detectives into the St. Louis disappearance tied to 1907.
Saskatchewan confirms purchase of Bell Telephone Company's system for cash, transferring all lines to provincial control. The move, following Manitoba and Alberta, marks government ownership of Canada's lines from the Great Lakes to the Pacific, with midnight April 30 as transfer time.
The Canadian cruiser Kestrel seized the American schooner Charles Tays Woodbury after firing on it for poaching. Captain Sinclair will testify as US authorities review the capture and consider lodging a protest through Coronel West. The vessel is owned by the Standard Fish Company of Seattle.
A late night tornado caused two deaths and several injuries with property damage around 30 000. In Oglesby the Timex Arbuckle residence was demolished and Arbuckle died. Davenport reports a Black man killed and multiple others injured.
Miss Mary Chaney aged 77 was mauled and killed by a dog while walking across a field near her home north of Zanesville Ohio. It was reported the animal attacked without provocation and the victim sustained fatal injuries.
James Clark a 53 year old farmer, wealthy and concerned about asset listing, drowned himself in the Blueiver near Marysville Ran to avoid potential investigation and possible penitentiary exposure.
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