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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1905
Page
2
The fragment lists postal and advertising terms from Athens 1906, detailing monthly payable rates and advance options for job printing and materials. It notes a splendid assortment of printing stock and mentions yearly and half-yearly prepay plans with specific figures for six months and one year.
A rural Iowa town reports a week of snow delays and social events. Mrs Albert Schori hosts the Women's Club while Grace Forbes misses college in Cedar Rapids. Hog pen fire kills twenty-four pigs, and residents cope with subzero cold. Local stores advertise remedies and Christmas-season gifts. Dover township records the death of Bardy Overhouse and a young man’s concerning behavior after suspecting theft. The community marks revival services in Burlington and near West Union as residents attend prayers and gatherings.
An old advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion for aiding fat babies. It claims fat stores support bone and muscle, reduce crying, and cushion nerves. It frames fat babies as healthy and content, urging use for scrawny infants.
Reader urged to obtain a free sample by requesting label 8 printed on the wrapper of every Emuleion bottle. The note stresses the label form and wrapper branding as part of the promotion.
The piece celebrates a cultural revival in Iowa farming, noting a shift from traditional methods to scientific agriculture. It highlights county farm institutes, agricultural colleges, and rural newspapers expanding outreach, with better crops, brighter farm homes, and stronger community involvement. Mentions prizes, corn shows, and school garden projects. The tone urges statewide support for scientific farming to double farm productivity.
Paris opens a grand slaughterhouse in Rue Bransion 860,000 francs, with space for 800 horses and perfect sanitary measures. Horse flesh becomes a staple in Parisian diet after sieges, with annual horse slaughter rising from 1,000 to 80,001 by last year. dogs also slaughtered for sausage.
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