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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
8
A congressman lauds U S war production while recounting a rural poverty tale. The anecdote describes a Mississippi man who avoids work, sitting at his door as his wife pleads, highlighting hardship in the poor white narrative.
A long standing Holland remedy praised for kidney and bladder pain relief. The ad claims Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules ease back aches, headaches, indigestion, insomnia, and urinary woes, with a money back guarantee if not helpful. Imported from Holland labs, sold in drug stores in three box sizes.
The pious old lady asks the cook applicant if he raises his voice in prayer daily. He replies that he prays every night and suggests they arrange hours to avoid interference.
The dialogue features Chimmie noting a stockin on Inside out and a hole on the outside. The Diagnosis jokes the patient shows a developed case of egoism, but counters with plain ordinary fits.
A 1918 appeal by Corr a Harris recounts patriotic Thrift Stamp sales in a backwoods meeting where a farmer’s plea to fund the war resonates. The piece argues war costs are societal obligations, with soldiers as the nation’s sword and civilians as the body, urging a new six billion dollar loan as an investment in lives and welfare.
The text advises handling an overturned oil lamp by not dashing water. Instead it recommends covering the spill with flour, meal, sand, salt, or ashes to smother the flame and prevent spread. The instruction reflects early safety measures for preventing oil fire flare ups.
A reflective line contrasts human caution with pace of progress. It quotes Samuel Johnson on words versus ideas and suggests that trouble arises when people fail to act quickly enough to seize opportunities.
Lieut Harold F Maxon and Cadet G I Gedeon died in a crash near Commack N Y. Former Congressman Mdiward Bh Gillette died near Des Moines Iowa, brother of actor William Gillette. German losses to July 1918 put at 6 million, 1.4 million edited. Twenty-one German planes downed, ten out of control. six British planes missing. Red Cross ambulance corps decorated by Italy for Mont Grappa service. Brazilian ship Madrugada sunk by a U-boat. crew saved. Camp furloughs opened for agricultural work. Bohemia turmoil leads to executions of Quech soldiers and broad arrests. Two thousand Camp Lee-born soldiers pledge US citizenship in Petersburg ceremony. Ludendorff demands 20 divisions from Germany’s allies. Austria-Hungary initially refuses. Senator Jacob B Gallinger in critical condition. oldest serving US senator. France thanks Congress for Bastille Day celebration in a Jusser note to the House and Senate.
Dean Edward E. Nicholson of the University of Minnesota is named one of twelve regional directors of the student army training corps. His territory covers North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Town, and Michigan. Universities joining the program include Princeton Harvard Cornell and Yale.
General Humbert, commander of the Third French Army, lauds American troops fighting alongside the British and French in Picardy. He says the Americans fight with an ardor unsurpassed, expressed during a talk with war correspondents in France.
The Market section lists flour prices per barrel and sack for various kinds, including Burley flour at 8.70 and hard winter at 14.80. It shows hay prices around 24,000 to 28,000 per unit, eggs with mixed lots, and a long list of cattle hogs and sheep price ranges, with ranges for steers yearlings cows and hog weights.
The Hubbard Review runs a full page proclamation by Mayor W. C. Hoelecher urging obedience to Governor Harding language policy. The German mayor praises Wilson and Harding and seeks broad community attention. The item also reports War Savings stamps, Iowa soldiers, and fuel and military notices across multiple counties and institutions.
The speaker recounts telling Flow she cured her husband’s insomnia by feigning success. The husband was to be given medicine every half hour through the night as prescribed by a doctor, with Flow asking how it was accomplished.
A humorous domestic vignette unfolds with Mrs Tanpeck in her husband’s office praising a new typist as “a peach” while Simpeck reacts with astonishment. Mrs Erpeck jokes about tanning, Mrs Knicker asks about a permanent cook, and Mrs Boeker notes one would stay if another could be found. A mother receives cheerful news about buying land, and a dog barking is oddly linked to a four mile ascent. Philadelphia reports American seamen fed rates as a backdrop to a broader scene.
The most northerly town in the world is described with notes from Arctic explorer MacMi ith. It mentions Inuit mothers carrying babies on their backs, a Wakimos superstition about baths upsetting babies, and explorers noting babies never touched by soap. The piece also references saloon talk in Toledo and a Pennsylvania police force of 5,000.
Advice from physicians urges stomach care during heat to prevent sickness. An easy relief, TONIO, is promoted as acid reduction and quick comfort after meals with EATONIC sold by druggists for 50 cents a box, with money-back guarantee if not satisfied.
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