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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
8
A user reports twelve years of eczema on hands, arms, and feet with swelling, peeling, and dry raw areas. After trying numerous salves and doctors, Cuticura remedies allegedly produced rapid improvement and complete healing with no recurrence to date.
A Yonkers Statesman quip shows a caller asking if a writer is a regular contributor. The city editor affirms and humorously notes the writer contributes just the same, though his pieces haven’t been used for years.
A witty exchange contrasts masculine dress touches with a smudgy stress of anger. Houston Péat captions Prieta of Man noting a sharp, provocative style in the attire and its back detail.
Orville Wright and Army Signal Corps Lieut Frank P Salm set a new world two man air speed and distance record at Williamsport Delaware. The feat lasted 1:12.40 and covered over fifty miles at roughly forty miles per hour. President Taft congratulated the brothers as Wilbur Wright watched and noted the endurance test imposed by the U.S. government.
First National Bank of Tipton Indiana shuts as cashier Noah R. Marker disappears after locking the vaults with 50 000 to 60 000 inside. Police say he left a goodbye note claiming he took funds to cover expenses. Marker, 35, tied to the bank 19 years and active in the community, is married with two children.
Washington issued sharp instructions from the Bureau of Immigration rebuking commissioners and inspectors for excessive arrests of aliens and weak investigations. Authorities must demand thorough preliminary inquiry in suspected alien contract labor law cases and avoid relying on uninvestigated accusations.
The article notes a strong Senate majority backing the free list for petroleum but acknowledges continued insurgent pressure for protection. It cites Senator La Follette’s analysis of the Aldrich bill with Treasury figures, showing import value shifts of 146 million and 93 million under different bills. It also reports New York suffragettes staging summer campaigning with militant readers and a street plan, meeting hostility on Wall Street.
The Senate adjourned until Monday to favor tariff bill conference momentum while Democrats claimed unity on the tariff. Presidential nominations advanced, including Charles R. Crane for minister to China, as the House faced disputes over records and ethics. The session saw adjournments, deliberations on a tax amendment, and a Dominican Republic extradition treaty. In Huntington a woman was paralyzed by lightning amid a severe storm, faintly affecting a nursing infant.
A four story brick Kirby Shoe Company building in Pittsburg burned, with losses around 375000. A separate blaze swept Orange Virginia’s business district causing about 75000 in damage. In Alberta two CPR workers, John Ritchie and William Shaw, drowned while bathing at Medicine Hat.
In a college town rumor spread that students carried concealed weapons. The chief issued strict orders. A group of students passed a policeman. one reached for a hip pocket but drew nothing. They fled, were chased, and ordered to surrender items. one carried a corncob. The Ledger notes the policeman’s remarks cannot be recorded.
An old advertisement touts Dean's Kidney Pills claiming cures for kidney troubles and related pains with a testimonial from Mrs. John B Whittaker of Madison Indiana. The piece also recalls Charles Dana editors and reporters noting how reporting power shapes the press and praising Dana's influence.
A Richmond woman details health woes from coffee and the rise after stopping. She credits Postum and Grape Nuts with renewed strength, weight gain, steadier memory, and easy walking. The letter promotes Read The Road to Wallville and Ready in The Road.
Doctors at your service free Munyon's offering postal medical exam requests to diagnose your case. They claim free, non binding advice with no obligation, inviting send for a medical exam blank to be filled and returned to Munyon's Philadelphia offices.
Russian doctor Dvoretzky of Kiev University Mos cow St Petersburg reports a newly named disease despair fever. He claims it drives most patients toward suicide and is spreading rapidly within Russia across ages and social strata. He notes 18 850 monthly suicides nationwide and gives Moscow and St Petersburg figures, with youth most affected and poison the common method.
A story about Tom Browne, a renowned artist, visiting a young woman painter. She asks him to judge a hidden self portrait and he replies with a joke about the painting being from a boarding school. The text mixes ads and stray phrases from various sources and contains nonsequitur phrases.
The passage lists quirky rules about daily tasks and house keeping such as closing windows in rain, feeding the cat, and repeatedly sending checks, mixed with a jokey superstition about luck from a rabbit foot in a Crastus Pinkly exchange.
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