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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1903
Page
8
A Denver Field and Farm note describes a double drinking bowl system attached to a tank, with a brass float valve that stops flow when the bowl reaches the proper height, preventing contamination. It claims no foreign matter can enter the storage reservoir while water feeds only to the outside bowl during use.
A collection of farm notes covers woodworking drilling, dehorning cattle, butter temperature, calf rearing, horse stalls, and team reliability. It urges sharing a newspaper with neighbors, promoting community support, and warns against price control schemes while jokingly noting the African in ads.
A rustic seasonal poem sketches harvest and drought as seasonal forces on wheat prices. A farmer narrator notes nature’s mood, a chintz bug omen, and market swings driven by crop yields, ending with a grim moral about uncertainty in Northwestern Miller.
A tornado ten miles southwest of Norfolk Nebraska wrecked Kriger and Berglund farms. Kriger and a child injured. barns, outbuildings, and machinery damaged. Peter Berglund injured arm. Louie Kyam farm suffered a massive barn collapse and barley losses. Widespread debris and livestock deaths occurred. Flooding hit Kansas City area. temporary bridges unsafe. James Street bridge collapsed. Armourdale and Abilene saw high water and flooded cellars.
A long list of county totals shows Tama and surrounding counties with vast agricultural assets. Cattle herds reach 220,000 head while corn and wheat production rise. town farms valued at hundreds of millions, with large timber, beets, egg, and poultry figures. A Tama County bankruptcy case grips local firms as creditors claim $185,000 in unpaid wages and an insolvency act is cited. Other notes include a fire pumping station loss, a murder trial bond, burglaries, and routine regional updates from Des Moines to Ottumwa.
A lengthy telegraphic bulletin describes abnormally cool conditions delaying harvests from the Missouri and Ohio valleys to Nebraska and Minnesota. Reports note delayed corn and wheat maturity, uneven cotton growth, drought in parts of North Carolina and Michigan, and variable apple and potato prospects acrossIndiana Iowa Kansas Wisconsin Nebraska and South states with rain and cool weather extending through the region.
Misa Gertie Sullivan, daughter of a railroad stop man near Havre, Mont, rode across the prairie and was pursued by a pack of wild dogs for over a mile. She sought refuge in an old sheep corral and, after firing at the animals, the pack retreated. Sullivan was found the next morning by her father and brother.
Yow Lines Tha Tranavari reports March gold production of 280000 ounces. The piece mentions injuries to George Ayers and Tom Woodssa in Bris tol Tennessee during coal mining, plus various local incidents including a mob action in Henderson Texas and a fatal domestic matter in Richmond Virginia.
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