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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
7
A gentleman assigns chores to a general man including cleaning windows boots and knives chopping wood tending the garden and keeping the house with ten shillings weekly. A quip about brick making arises then a moral on benevolence follows tied to an old cane found by a mother in law. Benny on Benevolence portrays giving and gratitude.
A curious exchange unfolds as a husband and wife discuss cigars given for a birthday. The wife’s husband asserts he will save the cigars until Willie is ready to learn to smoke, signaling a playful domestic dilemma.
Dispatch from Jerusalem reports Bedouin forces massacred more than 100 Christian inhabitants of Kerak in the Turkish vilayet of Syria in retaliation for an executed tribal chief. The town, on the Damascus Mecca road, has 6,000 Muslims and no American missionary presence.
The state department ruled Italy is entitled to Charlton’s extradition on a murder charge and that the treaty with Italy must be interpreted literally as a principle of national faith. The decision does not send him to Italy immediately. courts may rule on his sanity, potentially delaying trial for about two years.
In Vincennes Indiana jury acquitted Menlo Moore theater manager of murder in the shooting of Charles B. Gibson wealthy operator. Crowd cheered and carried Moore from the courtroom after the verdict ending a ten day sensational trial tied to Gibson’s conduct toward Moore’s wife.
Five men were arrested after a Friday of garment worker strikes in Chicago. Eight policemen were struck by bricks and rendered unconscious as residents reacted with uproar. Non union tailors’ homes were surrounded and stoned, missiles flew, windows shattered, and families fled into the streets.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank failed to open Friday in Macon following a bank run. The private bank had been operated for 40 years by J. L. and EB L. Hight. Deposits of $100,000 were reported, and E. H. Ozman, the American consul general in Constantinople, died Friday after a brief illness. Ozman was born in Rochester, Minnesota on August 6, 1857.
Leonard A. Hawter of 11 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn writes of a sixteen year battle with a severe skin disease that worsened in heat and hindered walking. After trying many doctors, two bars of Cuticura remedies brought swift relief, ending his suffering and proving a true cure for skin ailments.
A fragmentary exchange shows Belle and Beulah arguing over harsh discipline. Beulah suggests she forced words to be eaten, while Belle questions the severity and fairness of the punishment proposed, amid local discourse.
An assortment of old notes advertises Dr. Martel's Female Pills as a long standing remedy for women's ailments, with claims of quick permanent results and drugstore availability. Additional items include patent salves, Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, Winslow’s soothing syrup, and various tobacco and cigar promotions. The text interweaves moral admonitions about temptation and humility with commercial pitches.
A historical overlook promotes a mixture labeled for rheumatism claiming to heal by acting on the blood and kidneys. It lists Would Extract Dandelion Compound Kargon and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, to be shaken and taken after meals and at night, sold by prescription pharmacies as harmless and safe.
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