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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
2
Citizens urged to invest in a new Elgin opera house as a public appeal stresses stock funding as the town seeks a communal hall. Backers promise profits and city growth, arguing the project will raise property values and attract new enterprises while serving as a gathering place for residents.
Dutch furrier heiress Maria Lowenthal arrives in New York aboard the Varkee dam. Despite steerage status, she wears stylish attire and dedicates herself to helping poor emigrants, earning the title queen of the steerage. Captain Da Vries calls her the guardian angel of the steerage.
Emporia Gazette laments whist in town life as women dominate evenings at cards while churches split over pastors playing. Aging residents fret over lost bloom and worry replaces work, though poker rooms spring up on Commercial Street amid a social shift.
The article notes several species emitting phosphorescent light. Linnaeus observed faint night iridescence in common nasturtium with stronger glow after sunny days. Marsh fly and fraxinella also glow as fraxinella secretions form a luminous vapor in heat. In Dresden coal mines four fungus species display shifting color festoon-like luminescence.
A young man named P Borem tells Miss Cutting he has not taken up too much of her time. She reassures him that the time spent has been of no value to her, and he leaves into the night wrapped in thought.
After the Marble Beart, Burlington Booth decreed no more Volunteers of America may play the tambourine while saving souls. The bass drum, however, remains in use.
Reverend L. J. Keith of Vincennes Tennessee has returned a pension payment of 495.86 dollars to the government, stating the allowance was not properly based.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church seeks a co pastor to succeed aging Rev. Dr. John Hall. Trustees, facing shrinking pew demand and liberal conservative splits, scout across America England and Scotland for a top-ranked successor to share duties at the church valued around 2.6 million dollars. Committees attend services to hear candidates without formal candidacy while a stable leadership plan unfolds.
A Kentucky story from near Bardstown recounts a giant, century-old bullfrog said to inhabit an old log spring house built by John Ritchie beside the Ritchie spring. Locals claim the frog’s thunderous voice travels far and that only one frog has lived there through generations, with roots tracing back to Pioneer times.
In Atlantic the discussion by H G Chapman on American art notes a lack of art driven by the worker economy and changing times. He compares this to a second Middle Age, argues the decline is not wholly evil, and foresees a newer, happier era after the present material phase.
The report lists vast counts of wildlife in Austria including 15,864 unspecified preserves, 32 bears, 113 wolves, 24 lynxes, 9,490 stags, 60,252 roebucks, and extensive numbers of other game across mammals and birds. Also noted are 561 eagles, 54,610 owls, 1,365 horned owls, and 196,353 hawks and related birds of prey.
Lady Florence Dixie, sister of the Marquis of Queensberry, is noted as a leading football player among UK women and has served as president of the British Ladies Football Association. Her multifaceted career spans many occupations and distinctions.
Fragments describe a patent remedy named Shiloh's Vitalizer advertised to combat indigestion loss of appetite and yellow skin. The text mentions warnings and a promotional tone, attributed to W. EL Pinket4 with a product claim of life saving potential.
16 page atlas covering Cuba West Indies Philippine Islands Spain and Portugal City and Verbor of Unvana double page map of the works published by B C R N Ry for sale by agents at 15 cents or 18 cents postpaid. address J Morton G P T 4 Cedar Rapids Iowa
Celebrated Miller Lime operates two kilns near Elgin offering pure, beat lime praised by masons and plasterers. Available this week Saturday at Miller’s Kilns one mile west of Elgin or at John Lelman & Son’s Lumber Yards. Price is 25 cents per bushel with full measure and quality guaranteed. Local buyers urged to remember the place.
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