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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1894
Page
8
Nathan Straus shows how 10 cents buys milk, buns, or ice cream at elevated booths, while town folk explore flexible prices and food distribution. A jumbled mix of ads and notes follows, mentioning medicines, tonics, and various consumer goods.
In a desolate village scene the distant hills and vast sky define a fading farm and a wandering street. A guest arrives, a door opens, a calamity erupts as family tensions spill into a kitchen scene with Sophrania and Mr. Gumus. The farmer Grins is later seen at the tavern, his whereabouts unknown.
An eccentric village romance unfolds as Laura and a visiting partner navigate a bustling household led by a thrifty family. The narrative follows Miss Laura’s country life, modest foods, and social pressures within a cramped domestic scene full of vivid, humorous detail.
St Louis Post Dispatch correspondent visits 885 North Wabash avenue Wichita home of Mrs Lease and husband Charles L Lease once apothecary assistant in Peru ill and poor. The piece portrays Lease as shabby and proud of his wife and children, noting the family devotion and his past failed ambitions.
A tale from a seashore resort recalls a tramp who, posing as a guest, is invited in by a worried cottage owner and fed a dinner that changes his fortunes. In another setting a mountain resort scene features a waiter who is spotted as Yale football’s halfback, prompting talk of a generous tip.
A New York Herald interview with M. Bunau-Varne, head engineer of the Panama Canal group, reports on the Heilmann electric locomotive. It can match or exceed current speeds, reduce coal use, and run indefinitely without refueling, with potential routes like Varna to Constantinople and beyond. The machine, though larger, offers major efficiency gains and can negotiate curves with trolley wheels.
A distinguished engineer, after an initial meeting, found the proposed plan visionary but faced tepid support from others who viewed it as impractical. The encounter framed the broader reception among technical leaders.
The piece notes Halley’s Comet returning after centuries, cited by the Providence Journal as science narrows the path. Professor Glasenapp says the Keuc sian astronomical society will compute the true orbit using unpublished observations to predict the next perihelion with hours or minutes precision.
A jumble of humor and oddities from Chicago Tribune and Indianapolis Journal snippets. A parrot’s loss and a marriage linked to a suspected murder appear beside a tale of a 107 year old physician claiming longevity from badge alignment with magnetic currents.
The leading exports and major products of nations are listed: Denmark pork butter eggs Javo. Japan tea wheat sugar. Uruguay hides tallow wool frozen meat. Venezuela sugar coffee vanilla rubber beans cocoa. Switzerland oreasy butter condensed milk clocks watches. France wines silks chest nuts walnuts olives plums fashions. Servin saves about 20000 pounds of dried plows. Spain wine raisins onions oranges nuta olives iron groundsil ver lead copper. Germany potatoes beets and iron. Great Britain cotton geoils wool ens, honey and anutals. Greate exports wood and manufactures worth 24000000 plus cheese 3000000. Austria food-ground sugar-cests tobacco hemp wine iron coal precious meta. Russia wheat cattle hides wool gold iron copper timber and platinum. United States iron steel copper lead. Turkey tobacco cereals nuts almonds olives dried fruits coffee madder opium wine bottled for export.
In a Sunday Mercury snippet students debate attire as a professor condemns loud cravats while a student insists on their acceptance. A separate note mentions adding lemon to water for rice to whiten and separate grains, reflecting quirky household tips in the period.
A vintage promotion touts Syrup of Figs as a pure laxative with pleasant taste and kidney liver benefits. It claims wide medical approval, non weakening action, and availability in 50c and $1 bottles, with the California Fig Syrup Co. name on every package.
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