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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
6
Article surveys farm gate designs and animal care tips, urges early soil preparation for winter wheat, compares root crops and silage, favors cotton seed meal for dairy cows, discusses alfalfa in orchards, preserves fence posts, and highlights wide US apple production with practical farm notes and a simple wire reel design.
Attorney General directs state institutions to claw back portions of their appropriations from the start of their funding. University treasurer Bwileher expects about 15000 dollars due on old claims if the ruling is applied literally. Amidst trials, juror literacy questions surface in a Decatur County case. Des Moines officer handles a whipping case as a mother defends punishment to force prayers. Drowning tragedy near Hoidyville, a child warning averts a wreck on the Chicago Great Western. A one year old in Clarion signals the danger saving a fast train. State railway tax rises by nearly one million dollars for 1904.
A wide sweep of local notices reports a 2600 barrel water tank planned for Neola, a cloth factory at Clinton, and a temple plan by Marshattowh Mnccabees. Other items note postmaster appointments, lightning strikes, robberies, a German English college sale, railway mergers, drownings, and a grand lodge appointment with a $5000 value. The Dubuque Humane Society balks at high clock times, and a Davenport will leaves grandchildren amid family conflict.
A four man gang robbed the Diamond Special on the Illinois Central between Harvey and Matteson near Chicago at 10 p m taking watches diamonds and money from about thirty passengers in two Pullman sleepers The bandits used a hatchet fired on one passenger and pulled the emergency cord causing the train to slow then fled brandishing firearms as they spread through the cars Victims included a railway official and several women The robbers who moved quickly escaped into the darkness with plunder valued in the thousands. authorities alerted Chicago and Kankakee.
The town of Zeigler Illinois faces a violent labor dispute as nearly all workers are evicted or housed in tents five miles away. Armed private guards control access to the coal mines and coke works, enforcing a strict no-entry policy and threatening those who return. The standoff follows wage disagreements with owner Joseph Letter of Chicago, triggering a mass exodus and ongoing clashes between union and nonunion sides.
Sparks from the wire report a man named William Latimer, 25, missing in a flooded lake near Ripley, Kansas City. The piece notes the Kansas minimum salaries for graded school teachers rising from 57 to 65 dollars per month. Since June 1 the state school fund increased by 8,907 dollars 4 cents from interest and sale of school lands. The Rock Island Railroad plans 230,000 dollars in summer work at its Armourdale terminal yards.
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