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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
3
Grace Hawthorne and Harry Reynolds reunite at home after a river voyage where he reveals a betrothal to Grace. Edgar Reynolds urges a marriage to seal the engagement, while a mysterious former lover, Mrs Windom, confronts Harry with pleas and recrimination, hinting at a looming melodrama.
A physician recounts seeking a fitting toast after Santiago’s victory. While vacationing in Vermont, he and a friend tried to buy beer but faced prohibition rules requiring a physician’s prescription. He drafted a mock note for beer using a beer extract prescription to obtain spirituous refreshment.
Straw and its uses are described in Tap an where horses are shod with straw shoes made from braided rice straw. The soles are about half an inch thick and cost about half a penny per pair. Worn shoes are discarded, carts carry fresh shoers, and distances were once measured by the number of horseshoes needed to cover a journey, with an average shoe lasting about eight miles.
A Chicago Times-Herald note says a grimiliter denounces prosperity as his salary rises 15 percent. He pledges to resist what he calls a gil'abong attempt to buy his vote by paying for it in an underhanded way. He vows to resist at the polls.
A curious autograph hunter posing as a poet admirer sent a note to Thomas Campbell asking for interpretation of a poem. Campbell replied with a brief autograph and a witty line. The exchange is recalled in a humorous anecdote reported by the Washington Star.
Brief excerpt notes Nick has quit smoking, with a humorous addendum that he only smokes if a buoy offers a cigar. The item reflects a casual local notice or column fragment from the Somerville Journal dated April.
The readable fragments describe a jumble of names and phrases including Detroit, Putnam, and South Africa, but no coherent event or clear subjects emerge to summarize into a factual news item. The content appears garbled OCR with scattered proper nouns and partial quotes.
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