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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1905
Page
8
A rural column offers poultry fattening guidance including weight, pricing, feeding, and humane killing methods. It stresses fat birds fetch higher prices, recommends controlled fattening groups, and media on grain, meat, and greens. Also discusses storage varieties for apples, storage methods, and general farm tips on water, dress, and garden drainage.
A fragment describes city officials banning carriage placards and replacing them with overcoats bearing the same message Please blanket your horses while it notes a driver seen wrapped in horse blankets on the coldest days, with the passage cutting off mid report.
A Minneapolis Tribune editorial cites a New York World cartoon showing the President amusedly warning that the new year rewards good behavior. It argues peace comes to those with good will, whether individuals or nations, and misbehavior invites trouble.
Arthur Koppel, a major Industrial railway manufacturer, has set up offices at 66 68 Broad Street New York with yards and factories in New Jersey. He is meeting rising demand for narrow gauge industrial railways used in construction, sawmills, logging camps, quarries and plantations. He reprinted Cassirer’s Magazine essay On The Track by Ernest Webner with railway illustrations and accessories and offers copies on request to Arthur Koppel at the New York address.
A letter to J. C. Pond at Wisconsin Central offices from White Bear Lake Minnesota includes ninety four cents as restitution for prior cheats on handcars gravel trains and other trains. The writer pleads forgiveness and notes additional six cents for a train wreck incident.
A Philadelphia school mistress lectured pupils on physiology noting the brain sends a message to move an arm or leg. A mischievous pupil kept still and replied he was waiting for a brain message, prompting her command to hold out his hand.
New profession for women in teaching domestic science draws many applicants and faces shortages of truly skilled instructors. The program covers cookery, laundry work, sewing and dressmaking, with emphasis on practical teaching, classroom management, and adult education across multiple subjects over two years.
A New York Run report quotes a police observer noting more belongings vanish in winter. He cites snow and frost hindering searches, explains dropped purses in cold, and recounts women losing items while boarding streetcars on snowy days.
In a classroom moment a teacher told young girls that Mississippi means Father of Waters. A student quipped that if the name means Father of Waters why not call the river Mister Sipple, a line from a New York Times.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note comments on the discovery that a certain feed mix labeled mo fasson 44 is the best and cheapest food for horses. The remark notes the feed as slow, suitable for race horses, prompting casual disbelief and curiosity.
A violent mob seized the Wilson hotel in Mason City injuring guests as doors were smashed and rooms barricaded. Harry Norwood, under police escort, and officials James B. Inn & Co of New York faced arrest on $10,000 bonds amid a nationwide dairy industry crisis and a threatened medical services strike in Dubuque. The Amana Mennonites face tax disputes, while a large Woodbury county farm transfer and race-meeting plans across southwestern towns headline a chaotic regional report.
A disastrous blaze at North McGregor leveled the new city hall council chamber and jail while temperatures plunged to 0 degrees below zero. Firemen suffered severe frostbite as communities reported extensive losses and local harm.
A flood of brief Iowa notices details injuries from accidents to farm mishaps. Elroy Bennett is injured counting at Neola, a Cedar Rapids youth dies after roasting injuries, a mob of incidents from Muscatine to Grinnell recount fires, thefts and railway disasters. Major topics include bank suspensions, a $150,000 warehouse venture, a big fire at Colfax, and looming state taxes on insurance companies. The Waterloo Garment Co inks articles of incorporation for a $150,000 capital, while a Des Moines street fire injures several firefighters. A breaking string of deer sightings near Muscatine adds to a busy rural news day.
A copper preservers invention shown by a British man at an exhibition in Nhamien. An Indian slip with 400 passengers and valuables vanished. Louisiana self government debate resurfaces in the district, Tranlabig seat move proposed by Pennsylvanian legislation. Two British war vessels captured by French frigates. most convoy escaped. Middlesex sheriffs jailed for election corruption. Napoleon denounces supporters as rebels and claims St Dormingo as his own.
Seventy five years ago reports note Austria and Morocco agreeing on a settlement of disputes. Lyons Chamber of Commerce promotes free trade in such goods. Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg elected sovereign prince of Greece by delegates from Wagland, France and Rivas. Sir Walter Scott ill in Edinburgh. Britons discuss trade with China as ports open. French missionaries first to South Africa reach the cape. An American ship arrives at Travre France with 1400 bales of cotton from Charleston S C.
Fifty years ago riots erupted during an election in Kan Bite while Gold was found along the Kern river in California. The Northeast faced extreme cold as storms closed rail lines out of Chicago trapping 100 to 800 passengers for days.
The Islneis House of Representatives concurred in the Senate bill repealing the black laws. Cook county Illinois board of supervisors voted a bounty of 400 dollars for volunteers. President Lincoln returned to Washington. State Department announced peace talks at Fortress Monroe had yielded nothing. The alien bill was passed by the Canadian parliament.
Thirty years ago Matt Carpenter of Wisconsin lost the U.S. Senate contest to Angus Cameron. The House passed civil rights legislation as debate focused on a projected national commission. A special engineering committee urged canal improvements at the mouth of the Mississippi instead of Fort Pitt’s route.
A mob killed three in Andrubon Town and wounded old man O Donavan Iossa in New York. A street shooting injured Yseulie Dudley. Democrats pressed the new President elect Cleveland in New York while he remained notably opaque about his plans. A major disaster disrupted Chicago with tied traffic and widespread suffering.
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