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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
8
Two companions named the Three-Spot and Two-Spot sought to spend a surplus on needy children. They found four hungry youngsters outside a large store and asked what they wished for Christmas. A horse, boots and ladder, a fire engine, and a doll emerged as the children’s desires.
Four youngsters known as the Two, Three, and Four Spots enter a large shop, select toys from horse to drum, and purchase them with the Two-Spot paying. They learn the clerks wrap the items and that Santa Claus lives at the store. A farewell outside shows the group walking home a happy convoy with gifts.
The Christmas dinner repeats the Thanka day feast with turkey, goose, or chicken, and plum pudding replacing mince pies. Having recently guided turkey cooking, the author offers serving suggestions for dishes and courses to follow.
A cheerful holiday verse sending a merry Christmas to Our Boys abroad on sapphire seas and yellow sands. It notes warm winds and fair skies with no winter chill and blesses the heroes everywhere who honor Yaokeoland.
The passage lampoons dry wit and promotes various cures for digestive ills. It features Hog tetter’s Stomach Bitters, Gascarets, and Calgarrets Candy Cathartic, claiming quicker relief and natural bowel movement with affordable prices.
A disrupted scene in a busy shop emerges as a customer spills a glass and the patron calmly calls for another. The staff member, James, responds, ensuring payment and courteous service as observers note the positive exchange.
Mrs. H D Hyde of Folsom South Dakota writes an open letter of gratitude for Dodd's Kidney Pills. She claims three years of heart pain disappeared after use and her daughter with kidney weakness improved from the first dose. She asks publication to help others learn of the medicine's benefits. The item notes the pills cost 60 cents a box and are sold by dealers.
A eclectic mix of items appears from Harper's Bazar dialogue to grain based coffee substitute Grain-O, with ads for Allen's Foot-Ease and quips about wedding music. The clippings feature satirical lines on social life and public notices in a vintage market.
A fragment from a 19th century column contrasts Southern life with European manners. It discusses race, social norms, gender roles, and entertainment, citing Prof. Gerome Dowd and a brief cartoon-like tale about a boy and the inevitable man in a white choker from the Detroit Journal.
A garbled page lists various patent medicines and sensational cures including foot powders and frostbite remedies. It references Allen S. Olmsted of LeRoy as a sample offer and claims about Isinglaxe from Rus Ala, with scattered notes on dyes, fits cures, and a Chicago Tribune burglary anecdote. The text also mentions LAXATIVE BUne Quinine and a mix of unrelated vignettes and quotes from newspapers.
A garbled Detroit Free Press note reports age affecting hair color and a mistaken early claim about a forcer named Lite Lone and Cumso-Pasdick losing his head yesterday. The fragmentary text offers no clear event, person, or place beyond scattered names and comments.
Local letters from Westerly and New Lisbon praise Peruna as a universal cure for grip and chronic catarrh. Mrs Lizzie Brewer and others claim rapid relief, noting improvements in weakness and female health. The Peruana Medicine Company offers free materials and testimonials to support its efficacy.
A fragment shows a comical post office interaction with a clerk refusing an unusual request. The piece mentions a yoga bride and a refusal regarding letter handling, alongside a cartoonish aside about credit and service norms. An unrelated ad column references Dr. H. H. Green and a note on dropsy remedies.
A reported list shows patents initiated last week including names such as Gustav A. Teltz from Teenville Minnesota and Orville A. Hulett from La Verne Minnesota with items like a draft equalizer and a reversible wrench. Other entries mention Joseph M. Nesley of Grant Montana a milk stool chair Henry G. Rath of Minneapolis and Carl G. Strong of St Paul for various devices plus Perley Stevens of St Paul a convertible stool and cane and a guide for proper elaming. Authorities include G Johnson patent attorneys.
The notice claims I J Cheney & Co of Toledo will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J Cheney swears to the statement before a notary. The ad lists Hall's Catarrh Cure as internal treatment and cites Mull's Perily Pillare as the best.
A collage of jokes and reader letters includes a pun about heat and Foot-Ease, a Christmas warrant exchange, a testimonial for Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and a witty back‑and‑forth between a mistress and maid. The items reflect period humor and domestic quips from readers and publications.
A fragment notes readers resisting temptations this season as an advertisement touts boating fishing first class surf and water bathing, contrasted with the urge to quit a job and read the Somerville Journal instead.
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