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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
8
A classroom anecdote from Strand Magazine recalls Prof Key’s fondness for lively tales about Spain. A student jokes that if Key is named a don, would they call him Don Key, causing classroom laughter for the rest of the day. Later a lawyer quips about divorce and separate maintenance in a humorous exchange.
An 19th century style note promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure and its blood action claim. It quotes I J Cheney & Co Toledo and a Toledo druggist, touting testimonials and a two ingredient remedy. The piece also mentions a Wake Hall’s Pill and a humorous exchange about department stores and patient customers.
An old clipping recounts a mother’s tale of infant eczema and failed doctors, praising Calictra remedies after a cure seemingly cleared the rash. It cites Mrs. P. B. Gunbin of Sheldon in 1908 and mentions Potter Drug & Chem. Corp as sole props. The piece transitions to a London anecdote about Whistler and Lord Redesdale, then notes Benedict Arnold’s death in London on June 14, 1801 and his son’s later 1854 rise to lieutenant general.
A Chicago Tribune item recalls a 300 pound visitor leaning over a pen as Jay the 600 pound hog lies stretched on the floor. The visitor jokes about the difficulty of being prize beauties, underscoring the contrast between spectator and animal in a livestock show.
A jumble of 1905 era snippets includes Allen’s Foot-Hose style relief claims for shoe comfort, a schoolyard Christmas joke, Pazo Ointment for piles, a Western Australia gold dividend figure, a BromO Quinine laxative ad cue, a claim about H.W. GilovIs and a German Empire marriage count for the year 1905.
U S Fish Commissioner George M Bowers warns that migratory fishes in state and interstate waters are disappearing due to neglect. He highlights the sturgeon shad striped bass and Atlantic salmon as at risk while noting record hatchery outputs in 1908 with billions of eggs and fish produced.
Judge Axel Chytraus of the Appellate Court in Chicago ruled that no person may hold two salaries from the public treasury at once. The decision, in Meyer v Haas, voids Galpin’s claim to a Senate seat from the Second District and overturns Clerk Haas’s notification of a vacancy. The ruling targets widespread practice among Illinois legislators and public payrolls.
Noted author and lecturer Elbert Hubbard was seriously injured when a tree fell during work near his Hast Aurora colony. He was assisting workers and misjudged the fall direction, being crushed by the limb.
Five highwaymen blew up the follo way Exchange Bank of Gibbon Nebraska and stole 2500 from vaults. They escaped in an automobile as citizens pursued them.
A 24 year old NYU junior named Van Dwight Sheldon was shot during a struggle at the Dean Charles Snow home in New York City. He died hours later after saying a strange man sought Miss Helen Gould and accusing him of being in her house for money. Police found no intruder traces and considered the death possibly suicide after the ordeal.
Governor Hoch of Kansas pardoned John Collins who is serving a life sentence for the murder of his father J. E. Colling, a Lopela estate and insurance man, in May 1898. The case rested on circumstantial evidence from three witnesses, with a motive tied to love for Frances Babcock of Lawrence. one witness later claimed a book alleging a conspiracy by enemies.
Secretary Straus provides figures on arrivals and departures of foreign nationals for the year ending Sept 30. Net immigration shows 34,172 entered the United States while 717,814 left for home countries in the prior period. Official recording of departing aliens marks a new government practice.
A. R. will not attend the western encampment as the National Grand Army of the Republic eyes Cincinnati or Pittsburgh for the next gathering due to a Chicago traffic rate dispute. Missouri Supreme Court bans Standard Oil Indiana, Republic Oil, and Waters-Pierce Oil from the state and dissolves Waters-Pierce, with each company issued $50,000 penalties.
Gaw Kibe WF and A Burnham of Mutual Reserve Life are linked to a death by gas poisoning in New York. A burned stone church in Baltimore on Gilmore Street caused extensive damage likely over $50,000. A Saskatchewan business district fire in Warada destroyed the town, while Lisbon reveals a $7 million municipal scandal withFormer councilors blaming the government.
An advertisement urges readers to begin the year with a clean mind and body. It warns of winter indulgence, lists health harms from overeating and inactivity, and promotes Cascarets as a nightly bowel cleanser. The offer includes a free trinket “GOLD-ELATED MONDO” with a request to mail for details.
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