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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
10
In a brief exchange a Birmingham Age-Herald item notes a local magnate asking a passerby if he is the postmaster, offering stamps and dry goods including coffins. The man plans to head to the station, and a driver named Sam will take him for a quarter from the back lane. The note also mentions maetica as a substitute for absinthe in Greece.
A witty widow explains why she left her husband. He was a good provider but dull at home, his conversations absent while he enjoyed the social swing. She valued life beyond luxurious things and says she would return only if he stopped hiding behind a newspaper and slippers.
A terse exchange reveals the central powers as the beings behind a voice. After you send your call and wait fifteen minutes, they ask languidly what number you said, illustrating a tense, cryptic dialogue about authority and presence.
The exchange shows Dick Jones as a restless figure and a pushy rival, with taunts demanding faster action. The dialogue hints at strategic plotting and a lesson on empathy, urging self-restraint to avoid cruelty in conflict.
Farmers should list needed tools materials and parts before winter to prevent delays during busy seasons. By noting overhauls for machinery, building repairs, fencing, and painting along with lumber hardware and supplies, all items can be bought and stored on upcoming town trips. This foresight reduces future trips and speeds work on rainy days or slack periods.
An illustration shows a pulverizer made from a cutter bar from an old binder bolted to a road drag. The bar is angled to prevent trash hangups, its guards penetrate the soil to break clods and smooth the ground effectively.
Colony houses provide airy quarters for geese and turkeys during winter. Fronts may stay more open than for chickens. Birds require protection from cold rain, snow and wind, while duck care and small flock wintering yield better results than large buildings.
There is no advantage in trying out the sheep business by buying the cheapest and poorest quality of sheep to learn on. This class of sheep has nothing in its favor and the owner has nothing to encourage him in falling in love with the Industry, in fact, he could not embark in any stock in dustry that would be more trying on his patience, lend more discouragements and hive less enthusiasm in it.
The article advises diversifying green foods in winter to dilute costly grains. It recommends cabbage, beets, potatoes, turnips, carrots, and other bulky greens, stressing bulk over single crops to improve egg production and digestion, with ducks and geese as grass eaters and turkeys as strong insect destroyers.
The article stresses grooming as essential to horse care, noting sweat glands expel waste daily and can be clogged by dirt. Grooming keeps glands open, improves coat quality, and supports feeding, with grooming plus feeding yielding better team condition.
An acre of whole corn ensiled with ears and stalks yields as much milk or beef as ground corn. Husking and storing ear corn adds cost unless ear corn is sold. If feed remains on farm and ears cure properly, ensiling the entire plant in the silo is most economical for on farm feeding.
Farmers can earn good wages in winter by trimming small bushes and cleaning fence corners. Rotting material from the corners enriches fields if scattered, while cleaning the corners and cutting buckwheat or bulica makes the place neat and attractive.
Proper housing delays rust and corrosion on farm equipment. In damp weather the best defense is coating all unpainted parts with a heavy oil that clings and blocks air and moisture, reducing rust formation.
A physician endorses basic measures for kidney disorders, stating that drinking hot water each morning, ample plain water throughout the day, and an Anuric before meals can effectively treat kidney trouble. It warns of death if kidneys fail and lists danger signals such as backache, fatigue, headaches, and swollen joints.
Walter Pavlock of 412 E Congress Street in Ypsilanti credits Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets with restoring his health after severe liver trouble and loss of appetite. He says the remedies cured him in three months and thanks the doctor.
A dog treed a cat on an electric light pole between Lexington and Mount Sterling causing a cross break that plunged Mount Sterling into darkness. The old-time oil lamp was deemed undesirable, but one cat could not extinguish every lamp in town.
A newspaper snippet urges mothers to use Skinner's Macaroni and Spaghetti to save money and improve health. It claims the product is loved by children and suitable for adults. It offers a free cookbook from Skinner Mfg. Co. Omaha Nebraska. The message includes light quips and quotes from other sources.
An old remedy Castoria for infants is cited with the line Bennathe signature and 80 years in use. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is advertised as strengthening women with no alcohol. A miniature electric horn button invention is noted to replace doorbells.
If your scalp is irritated itching and burning and hair dry and falling out in handfuls try the following treatment touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment and follow with hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap Absolutely nothing better Free sample each by mail with Book Address postcard Cuticura Dept L Boston Sold everywhere Three hundred species of turtles and tortoises are known All are not thieves that dogs haunt
A crafted fragment features a widow remarking on chimes and time, an ostrich vignette, and a note that turkeys derived their name from being imported into Europe via Turkey. The text blends quirky aphorisms with a historical aside on poultry nomenclature.
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