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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1915
Page
7
In San Bernardino county California tests of samples from Searles' Seep well revealed several minerals undecipherable optically. Chemical analysis of one sample showed a hydrog borosilicate of medium, proposed to be named Searlesite after John W. Searles, pioneer of the deep well.
The piece lists tiny national forces including Monaco with 7b guards and 76 carbineers, Luxembourg with 185 gendarmes 170 volunteers and 80 musicians, San Marino with nine companies totaling 36 men and 3H officers, and Liberia with about 700 fighting personnel plus many officers. It notes Liberia’s declared neutrality during conflicts.
Iowa editorial associations from Des Moines plan a February 11 12 joint conference with a banquet theater party and a Friday business session. The event will promote Better Oats and feature ten field demonstrations against smut across ten counties by Iowa State College extension staff.
In Gregory County South Dakota Colonel Johnson, once a Wisconsin executive and banker, claims a vast alfalfa enterprise he built from a single bed twenty five years ago. He touts alfalfa as the premier hay and pasture crop, citing Salzer's seed and the Nitengen catalog as aids to high yields on a farm.
The notice offers to mail a catalog and seed samples including Tan Fa cus em Seeds and several varieties such as The Priza Winner Bil- Hon Dollar Grass Teosinte Silo Filler Alfairo and more. It advertises a larger catalog plus a six item sampler of vegetables like Early cabbage carrot cucumber lettuce radish onion and other juicy vegetables for spring and summer and asks twenty cents plus the return of both collections and the big catalog to Box 700 La Crosse Wis.
The passage argues that the highest ambition breeds true humility as human effort cannot meet the universe's grand plan. It asserts that humankind must rely on a divine power beyond themselves to fulfill the great scheme and collaborate with Almighty God in all needs.
Under a special act of Congress the U S Forest reserve in Arkansas allows homesteading up to 160 acres per person without coal rights. About 1 000 000 acres in panturags range offer fattening cattle hogs and sheep eight months yearly. No overflow lands. healthy well watered country with running streams. We locate applicants, provide lands, and send 25 cents for state map and act copy to A V Alexander locating engineer Little Rock Ark.
A lighthearted stray story depicts a breakfast mood clash as a husband complains his breakfast fails to satisfy while his wife notes their love has grown cold. The exchange turns the kitchen into a witty, domestic vignette.
A Minnesota reader from Oligobil, Tomn., describes four years of backache and bladder inflammation blamed on kidney and heart issues. After doctors failed, Dodds Kidney Pills cured his condition and his constipation, with a 50 cent box offered by Dodds Medicine Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Also promotes Household Hint, National Anthem music, and dainty-dish recipes as free mail topics.
Humorous dialogue shows a character rushing to the post office to protest slow service while lamenting a promised check that has not arrived after ten days, highlighting frustrations with delivery. The exchange captures a light moment over communications and punctuality.
An advert promotes Murine eye medicine claimed to ease weak or gritty eyes and granulated lids. Sold by local druggists, priced per bottle, with promises of a long-standing physician practice and public dedication.
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