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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
8
A local clothier in Littles Roots displayed counterfeit dollar bills in his store window and offered them for 95 cents each to draw crowds. Passersby examined the notes skeptically, thinking them fake. A man offered 20 gold pieces for $5 but found no buyers until a bank cashier bought the counterfeit lure.
A sweeping compendium notes 1840s postage origins, church growth, and population data across Britain, Europe, and the United States. It cites Anglican and Catholic shares, education, missions in India, and German military numbers, alongside biographical traces of Savage, Chatterton, and Swift, with observations on astronomy, hydrology, and engineering feats in Holland and Alsace.
A dense panorama of historic battles and events, listing dates and places from 1388 through 1907. It names figures and locales such as Overburn, Mexico City, Dunkirk, Mohaca, New London Conn, Baltimore, Barbados, Smithsonian, Charlottetown, Wilson's Creek, and Manila, with notes on ships captured, territories changed hands, and notable inaugurations and disasters. It concludes with a prices summary from the Bureau of Labor, showing general price movements and notable increases in farm, fuel, metals, and drugs sectors from 1800 to 1907.
A New York inventor William Patten unveils a powderless gun model that fires by centrifugal force. A large wheel powers the mechanism. bullets are poured in and discharged as velocity is reached, producing a solid stream of lead with a claimed rate of about 60,000 shots per minute.
The text discusses Perruna as a tonic with two kinds of herbal remedies, standard cures and well-known tonics, claiming long tested efficacy for diverse catarrhal conditions. It notes chronic catarrh is common, with sufferers told by doctors multiple times their case is chronic, affecting nose throat lungs or stomach. It also includes a quoted remark by Captain Pritchard about sailors facing hardship at sea, contrasting with past dangers and a man who would have drowned if ashore.
A reader testimonial from Mrs. James M. Long of Staunton Virginia praises Doan’s Kidney Pills for backache and urinary trouble. She first wrote in 1903 claiming cure, and by 1907 reports no kidney trouble since, endorsing the remedy at 50 cents a box. A Philadelphia traveler recalls South American hotel conditions. The Saxony Supreme Court rules boycotts and strikes in wage wars are not punishable by law.
Mrs Mary G Baker Eddy told a tale at a Western Christian Science gathering about a nervous sleeping woman who asked her physician if she should eat before bed The doctor suggested milk and meat before sleep contradicting Eddy's stance and reflecting advancing science in medicine The anecdote is cited as illustrating shifts in belief and practice over time
A St Louis mother recalls her infant's severe eczema and night torment. After doctors failed, she used Cuttenva Soap and Cutturn Olatucut, reporting her baby was cured in three months. As cited in the Minneapolis Journal, the note dates to May 2 and 20, 1907, from Alice L. Dowell, 4709 Raston Ave.
A Polkville Ark citizen praises a five year old boy who can swear like a pirate, citing a proud parent’s remark. The piece contrasts the prodigy’s bravado with observers’ judgments amid a late 19th century tone. It also recalls the 1882 New England ten hour movement among shipweights and carriers and related strikes.
Six hundred families of weavers in Pejar Spain seek aid to emigrate to American countries. The census reports ten women working as wheelwrights in industry.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Scann as an ethical remedy, approved by physicians and acclaimed by the Well-Informed of the World. It urges buying the genuine product manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and sold by leading druggists.
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