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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
4
Beulah recalls a simple past in sodhouses and the old freedoms where money mattered little. She contemplates Jim Travers and the longing for beauty and music in a life of toil, while her mother urges endurance and quiet prayer in a changing, laborful world.
Beulah Harris frets over her father John Harris and brother Allan chasing a dream of staking land near the Rockies after a talk with ranch neighbor Riles. Jim helps manage cows and chores, while Beulah and Mary reflect on hard work, money, and a possible move. The scene captures rural daily life, family tension, and an ongoing struggle between staying put and seeking new homesteads.
A collection of old fashion dessert recipes includes lemon pastry instructions with butter, sugar, flour, and egg, plus banana pre-press and lemon cheese cake fillings. Also notes on oyster macaroni dishes, cranberry salad with gelatine, peanut butter rolls, and duchess cream with tapioca and pineapple.
Canadian teacher John Harris leaves town to homestead in Manitoba with Mary. They marry, farm, and raise Allan as the prairie prospers. Twenty five years pass. Mary fades, Allan helps his father, Beulah rebels, and Jim Travers arrives as a hired man.
A garbled quotation laments misery among the poor and those with money. The fragment hints at truth, happiness, and the futility of wealth in alleviating sorrow, mentioning miserable thoughts about "those poor fellows" cursed with money.
Advertisement claims Diamond Dyes safely dye any fabric including wool silk cotton and mixed goods with 160 simple steps. It promises new rich fadeless color for old garments draperies and coverings and guarantees perfect results when using Diamond Dyes.
The fragment critiques a dish described as middling and not very good nor bad. It mentions Cole's Carbonsaive applied quickly without scars, and references Mor froe and Rookford, with unclear author and date details. The readable portion preserves a tone of cautious skepticism about the culinary result.
A dress designer remarks that a designer must be born, noting this is an advantage as quoted by a Camo mile stress dressmaker in the London News. The dato reflects stylistic industry views and regional opinion from Pune.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to cure catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh by acting through the blood to reduce inflammation and restore normal mucous surfaces. Circulars are free and available through Druggists. J Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio.
Cuticura Soap daily and Ointment periodically improve complexion, scalp cleanliness, and hands softness. Include Cuticura Talcum for a fragrant finish, forming a complete Toilet Trip advertised to refresh and freshen the user.
A fragmented report describes a mining shaft in Sombrerete lit by noon sun on June 21, revealing a vertical depth around 00 feet. The text hints at tension over a floating debt and a contentious situation, though details are sparse.
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