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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
6
Lionel Leigh secretly escorts Ella Wycherly into the secluded Wycherly summer house where a blossoming romance unfolds amid social constraints Miss Worthington disapproves and a plan for Ella to attend a distant ball is hatched through a sly invitation and chaperoned intrigue.
In a tremulous scene Lionel asks Miss Wycherly if she loves Itai, and she probes his feelings about Mary as a romance ends. The moment hints at past passions, art, and a climate described as endless summer, with a shadow of a future trip in twelve months.
London city men are blamed for loving nicotine, with a physician noting many patients show nicotine related throat or heart issues. He advises smoking after meals only, not throughout the evening, warning that cheap cigarettes tempt clerks and juniors and cigars signal prosperity.
A man laments a wretched horse dragging a heavy load under a broiling sun. The horse collapses and dies as smoke from a dented bale or hay chokes it, revealing its emaciated condition.街 Austendin jewelers renew engagements with customers.
A collection of remarks and anecdotes extols steady effort. It cites John Adams, Cyrus Field, Ald, Stewart, John Wanamaker, Velin, Raphael, Millais, Darwin, Plato, Gibbs on relentless practice shaping success and genius. It portrays drudgery as essential to achievement and improvement across fields.
The era favors fragrance use as a health aid and antiseptic aid. Pure floral perfumes are recommended for handkerchiefs and sprays, with hair scenting and perfumed caps rising in fashion. Rosa perfume, Persian rose petals, and Russian leather notes are popular, while Eau de Cologne and English lavender water retain strong followings.
A London Bellman remark recalls Cardinal Manning asking where conscience sits, answered with a sculptor pointing to a spot by the head. Another line from a jewelry trade weekly jokes at a watch that runs briefly then stops, the cure is to wind it consistently.
Poultrymen are urged to provide extra space green food and fresh water during moulting. A iron and sulfuric acid water mix, a grain ration with wheat barley corn buckwheat, and a mash are advised. Drop boards must be kept mite free with a kerosene oil solution. Also discussed is early, manual thinning of peaches, plums, apricots, apples, and pears to balance crops and improve breeding.
A dairy advice column urges keeping high quality cows by rearing heifer calves from first class stock, using strong bloodlines, and warns against dairy cows bred only for beef. It provides a home remedy for caked udder, notes limited value of cows without breeding potential, and suggests cutting garito before it matures to protect pastures.
Ground that grows potatoes works for tomatoes. Prepare soil, pulverize, plant four feet apart in rows, cover stems to leaves. Vines spread yield better fruit. pruning increases size but reduces total yield. Mulch with straw after final cultivation. avoid potato bugs with Paris green early, but not after fruit sets. Early fruit good for cannery. late fruit not valued more.
United States Consul Goldschmidt reports on the value of autumn dead leaves for fertilizing in Nantes. He notes suburban gardening interest and that leaves used as bedding for cattle yield manure richer than ordinary straw.
The excerpt highlights advertisements as windows to era, noting an English dealer offering a near new exchange motor carriage with top gear and a J. A. P. engine for an invalid carriage, and a farm notice seeking a teenage son to assist milking cows.
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