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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1899
Page
8
The Atchison Daily Globe notes the enduring motif Light in the Window in poetry and song. It suggests the image signals someone staying up to give guidance or scolding about going to bed, while also evoking a chill and longing for home as the light appears around a corner.
The fragment discusses a sponge named item commonly called the sponge and asks how to make it. It notes the cook handles the sponge, tests it with a thermometer and hydrometer and other instruments, then returns it to the cook before it appears splendid on the table per the St James Gazette.
A famous New York City dentist and Georgia native dies during a European vacation at age 84. He pioneered nitrous oxide use and claimed a world record by extracting about a million teeth, a claim that shaped public imagination. An amusing aside recalls a son joking about a mother's absence.
In a dialogue quoted from the Indianapolis Journal a claim is made that the estate barely passed its assessed taxation value. The exchange underscores disappointment at the estate's perceived worth and the tax assessment.
The note cites Nicaragua canal cost estimates ranging from 116000 to 160000 dollars. An inquiry questions public opinion on Hostetter s Stomach Bitters, praised for indigestion biliousness constipation nervousness and sleeplessness. A Philadelphia paper jokes about a proverb on drunkenness and a sheep s head remark.
A former Idaho resident, A A Tolman of Lacombe Alberta NW T, writes of western Canada as a better farming country. He moved in 1894 with cattle, horses, wagons, cash, and homesteaded land. Yields in 1887 and 1888 are cited, with low land costs and easy terms for Canadian Pacific Railway lands. He praises free homesteads, schools, and outlays about five thousand dollars in capital, noting substantial returns and land values. The piece also includes assorted ads and notes on products and medicines of the era.
A Rural New Yorker piece urges restoring sick land with clover and drainage, warns about waterlogged soil in sloughs, and advocates alsike or red clover for erosion and nitrogen. It also argues better roads lift land value, support churches and schools, and ease farm deliveries to markets while cutting transport costs. It notes hog cholera losses in Indiana and veterinary issues at the Experiment Station with multiple animal diseases and limited remedies.
A Maine contributor advises selecting a sunken area for a cesspool near an elm and hedge to benefit lawn layout. He argues trees and shrubs absorb water and impurities from cesspools, cites roots feeding on seepage, and recommends vegetative drainage when drains exist or are planned, opposing open sinks but favoring planted stabilization.
A Virginia Experiment Station bulletin notes Prof Cook’s view that fertilizers with high phosphoric acid content and durable carbonate of lime yield best returns over long transport. Green sands low in acids and carbonate become active when composted, while acid burning marls can be mellowed with lime. Forage crops improve with marls. lime remains a basis of husbandry, and chemists aid in judging mineral fertilizer compositions.
The American Cultivator notes covering clay soils advise adding sand to improve an acre of land, yet costs exceed potential gains. Cloverm and underdraining improve friability, while frost mellowing aids clover germination and future soil richness. The piece also mentions tobacco industry impacts and urging new blood in poultry management.
Periods of pain during menstruation are described as common yet burdensome. The text promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a regulator and relief for menstrual discomfort, citing a testimonial from Mrs. Putnam. It also mentions free advice for women and advertises catalogs and seed samples.
An old reader notice touts Mealth for ten cents and Cascarets claiming to stimulate bowels and kidneys, destroy microbes and cure headaches biliousness and constipation with druggists listed. It also mentions the Wishbone as the most used bone by the average man.
The Ledger Monthly announces a February cover reproduction in five colors labeled an American beauty. It promotes subscriptions with a mail-in offer for a year and a January issue bonus, instructing readers to contact their postmaster to subscribe through 1900.
The Boston Globe reviews the Ledger Monthly, praising its English printed issue titled Me Kor Monthty. It highlights its value and urges readers to subscribe, noting the price and the offer to receive the yearly volume. The ad directs readers to send fifty cents to Robert Bonner's Sons at the Ledger Building in New York.
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