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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1897
Page
8
A quirky column features banter about relationships with a judge’s quip on coveting a wife. The page shifts to an advertisement for Allen’s Foot-Ease and Allen’s Foot Remedy praising relief for swollen feet, tired shoes, corns, and blisters. It notes price and availability in druggists and shoe stores.
Reader notice highlights Mount St Josephs Academy in Dubuque Iowa inviting parents guardians to inquire about schooling for girls and young ladies. It promotes superior facilities for mind and heart and urges contacting the institution before arranging education elsewhere.
A collage of light humor quotes, social mischief, and quirky notices from various papers. Snippets include remarks about a musician, spelling deficiencies in a teacher’s note, engagements and fashions, a transmigration joke, and promotional blurbs for products and pamphlets from Great Northern railway and other advertisers. Contains names and places echoed from the era.
A German sanatorium near the Black Forest treats tuberculosis with constant fresh air and regulated exercise. Diet aims to build up patients with meat eggs milk and butter while allowing generous sweets. Reports say patients improve but home treatment would be unlikely to replicate the regimen. Also covered are Bauer flax processing vs hand work, sand blasting for cleaning and wood or stone surfaces, a summer house with organized mail and telegram storage, and a sheet metal process coating steel with aluminum.
The article notes aluminum curtail sheets with durable coatings that resist sulfuric gases and can be polished to a silverlike luster, plus copper plated variants. It then describes Reverend A G Ferguson's Hypto phone device that photographs sound vibrations onto plates and reproduces them, claiming indestructible records and clear modulation. It warns that wood near high heat can ignite, stressing chimney and flue protection to prevent fires.
The new Danube railroad bridge, claimed as the largest in the world, spans 13 325 feet without approaches and rises 105 feet above high water. It surpasses the Tay, Mississippi, Forth, Morody, and Volga bridges in length, with one 20 foot main span and four spans of 465 feet each, and signals Romanian pride in the achievement.
Last week issued patents to Northwestern inventors include Vrank J Coombs Columbia Falls Montana bicycle brake John A Markon White Bear Ming mechanical voting machine Samuel A Peterson Kent Minnesota grain elevator John Starter Vort Logan Montana thre thihtener Jdd wari Shepird White Sulphur Springs Monthaminey Zenith Wall Plaster and Finish Go Minneapolis Minnesota trade mark wall plaster and finish Merwin Matont Lawyer 110 Monner Press Building St Paul Minnesota
A garbled collage cites stray quotes and ad blurbs from various papers. It mentions a jail juror exchange and a contest offering trips to Alaska, plus references to medicines and a cigarette exchange. Yellowstone Park area noted as 3 675 square miles.
A collage of patent medicines and ads touts Hal's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy. It promotes pneumatic bumpers for trolleys, tonics like Moxtetter's Stomach Bitters, Cascareta, and Winslow's Syrup, plus educational notices and a stray disaster report about a halibut's tooth and a fisherman.
A fragment recounts a scene about peering through a window and gossip with a typewriter girl. It urges readers to read newspaper advertisements for bargains, praising advertisers for delivering what they promise, with playful slang and local flavor.
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