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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
8
A Chicago Tribune fragment shows Imsponsible chiding Horaee about love. W responds with a brittle joke on removing windpipe pressure, a stark line in a terse exchange.
An assortment of sensational medical ads and anecdotes flood the page, touting Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for cures and testimonials. Other notices promote Allen's Foot Ease, Liniment schemes, beauty cures, and general quips. The jumble includes humor quotes and miscellaneous household remedies.
The column reviews butter coloring concerns amid accusations of coal tar dyes in butterine and notes Danish and New Zealand studies on pasteurization and butter quality. It emphasizes humane herd management, ventilation, exercise, and the key effect of stallion work on breeding outcomes, citing L V D Shepherd and practical farm observations.
The Poultry Tribune notes squabs are a fashionable first class hotel dish. It outlines breeding basics using homing pigeons, especially White Homer, with best colors silver or light blue. Details cover housing, cleanliness, water, gravel, and shallow bathing pans. Squabs reach six pounds per dozen in weeks and wholesale prices run 40 to 60 cents per pound, with loft costs around 850 dollars for 600 pairs.
Dr Nornerstfalle discusses Taberayiont spread in Milch Zaltung report. The lecture outlines potential mechanisms, cites observations, and notes questions raised by the audience about transmission paths and containment.
A reader cites sulfur as an effective remedy against sheep ticks after mixing with salt and dosing through summer, claiming the flock stayed tick free. Other snippets discuss feeding corn to fatten poultry and hogs, crowding hens reducing production, hawk damage to chicks, and Los Angeles butter milk trade with over 1,000 gallons daily and twelve wagons.
A fragmented poem sequence evokes pastoral scenes and longing as verses describe flowers birds and spring returning. The text shifts through images of nature and distant visions of a girl, inviting anticipation and reunion with beauty.
A narrator finds a talking sea urchin stranded on a rocky shore near Maine. The urchin, named Sea Urchin, explains a wave carried him away from home and asks to be set in a puddle to revive in the sun. After a brief misadventure, the narrator carries him toward a safer home as the tide recedes. The creature describes its mouth, stomach, and tiny tentacles before returning to its rock habitat.
In a sunlit pool a Sea Urchin family, Mr and Mrs Sea Urchin and their children, inhabit a red tinted rock basin shaped by centuries of ocean work. Spiney sea urchin returns from an adventure as the family grieves a potential loss, then the pool erupts with joyful commotion as tales and laughter unfold, ending with a gentle farewell until the next day.
Lilian Allen Martin recalls in St Nicholas a baby Ruth beginning with nurse taking her from crib and the Laos phrase Nai noy pi doy. The entourage packs bedding and provisions into bamboo baskets as four elephants prepare saddles and mounts. Ruth rides in a howdah while her parents and Dr McGilvary observe, bells chiming as the procession departs.
A 1804 naturalist observed an ant battle where victor ants seized slave babies from the defeated mound. The enslaved ants later cared for their masters, who lost feeding, building, and fighting skills. One slave ant eventually built a home and fed all, prompting the narrator to ask if being slave would be preferable.
A Chicago teacher Susan Wymar and Racine Wis. resident Margaretha Dauben write to Dr. Hartman praising Peruna for relief from menstrual irregularities and pelvic troubles. They describe use during life changes and recommend the remedy, inviting readers to request a free book for women.
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