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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1911
Page
8
The minister recalls a woman whose open windows to light shaped a community. He cites her loyalty, faith, and courage to challenge despair, help a wayward man, and inspire new ways and thoughts. He extols the country pastor’s unique chances for study, contact, and growth despite modest pay.
An account of pumas feeding on horses and other prey in Patagonia. A puma kills a colt by wrenching the neck, and prefers mutton to veal. It uses ambush in a calf-pen, but can be repelled by massed tusks or kicks. A cow inflicts a fatal wound on a puma protecting a calf.
A forthcoming book by W Eden Hooper titled The Central Criminal Court of London will publish next week in an edition of 160 copies, each priced at 40 dollars and largely subscribed. The volume covers the court history and Newgate with rare prints, including facsimiles photographed at the British Museum. Fifty plates in seven processes illustrate the work, bound in white vellum with city arms, weighing ten pounds.
A humorous quote exchange contrasts an educated woman’s reluctance to admit age with a man who boasts of his college year. The dialogue mocks pretentious self-presentation and the idea that women narrate age while men emphasize schooling.
The excerpt surveys diverse topics: the London Stock Exchange’s large membership, proposed bridges in Asia Minor, Catholic missions in the Philippines, Chicago mounted police anti slip devices, Carnegie and Kennedy endowments at Hamilton College, aluminum coinage in France, a barber’s political thoughts, a German businesswoman on the Hansa council, India and China fish trade, fat skin crafts in Britain, and sensational wildlife lore including gorillas and orangs with legends of human spirits and hunter by night.
A fragmented account describes the gorilla as the strongest among apes, a male tall over five feet with a life size cited at six feet two. It notes it is savage and morose, capable of beating its chest when enraged, and often a threat to humans, though not always untamable in every circumstance.
A humorous collage features Hal defending dining manners, a father recounting old family discipline, and a museum-observatory scene with Saturn and Jupiter. An astronomer explains Saturn’s great distance and a visitor jokes about spring costs, all folded into light, period-tone vignettes.
A local snippet urges teaching children proper body use and poise by balancing weight on the balls of the feet and lifting the chest. It notes how heel-borne posture appears in adults on the streets and cites various humorous quips about manners and relationships from distant papers.
In a Century article, Caroline Thurberna visits Oslo and Christiania to depict Norwegian households. Long winter evenings, Grieg influence, vivid ski scenes, and meals every few hours reveal a culture where meals, coffee, tea, and supper structure daily life.
In Goldfield a mine operator’s wife tried a lush lawn with imported sod and irrigation. A sandstorm blasted the strip of greenery, turning the oasis into dust. the drought and alkali killed every blade, despite abundant water.
A Bethlehem family uncovers a drawer with about twenty war department letters and proclamations from Generals Weyne and early federal figures. Prof. Allison of Carnegie Institute calls the collection a valuable first hand source for the nation’s formative era.
Emily lingers in a bustling avenue and store as Grace and Aunt Maelyn shop. She observes city life and the kindliness of a passing door attendant, contrasting it with home town warmth, amid reflections on youth and affection from readings and a joke about a tired mother.
A cryptic note recalls Patience-Pegey fearing microbes and Patrice-Funny forbidding in person meetings, preferring calls by telephone. Yonkora Statesman notes women react to tales of married men's troubles with sly schemes and whispered plots.
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