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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1916
Page
8
A sprawling, fragmentary chronicle lists key World War I events across 1915 and early 1916, naming battles, ship losses, territorial seizures, and political moves. It tracks Lusitania notes, Dardanelles actions, shifts in Russian and Italian fronts, and Allied responses, with dates and numerous named places, ships, leaders, and dates.
United States Supreme Court rules under Sherman antitrust law to forfeit homes and bank accounts of 183 Danbury traders over a boycott. In New York subway crash 1 is killed and 172 injured. The House rejects a woman suffrage amendment 204 to 174. Avezzano quake kills about 30,000 with 200,000 more jobless in New York. President Wilson’s first grandchild born at the White House. Twenty unarmed strikers shot near Roosevelt N. 3 by guards.
A 1915 sports roundup noting world champions and leaders across baseball football boxing rowing tennis and related events. Highlights include Jos Willard defeating Jack Johnson to become world heavyweight champion, leading batsmen and pitchers in major leagues, and national champions in tennis and rowing with prominent figures from Boston Philadelphia and California.
Timeline of early telephony milestones including a January 25 demonstration between New York and San Francisco a 3400 mile span and a September 29 wireless link between Anningtoo Virginia and Mare Island California. President Thenders II of AT&T delivers a message from New York to San Francisco via wire then wireless. Arlington to Hawaii and Paris links noted.
Oklahoma City reports John McElwain visiting his brother Thomas after 30 years. John slept on the lawn outside and was mistaken for a stranger, then identified by Thomas after police involvement. Thomas bought cigars for officers and warned John of lodging options. A separate note mentions a guard encounter and a German sentry, plus a comic tale of Pat unable to wake.
Thomas Leon Reed twenty one died at his Olanta Clearfield county home following an initiation accident into a secret order. He walked a blindfolded plank and was tossed into a blanket before breaking his neck on the third toss. A coroner's jury ruled accidental death and exonerated the order members.
A red sweater wearing man attempting a hold up of Sheriff Thomas Garrison and W W Bush of Hyattaville is sought after robbing an eighteen year old girl of her purse and returning it. The girl, Mabel Jacobson, cried as the thief handed back the five dollar bill and urged not to rob the poor. A second item reports a twelve year old boy, Frank Caccaville, killed his sister Carmel, ten, during a dispute while playing school. he fled but was captured.
In New York Miss Margaret Ebert, aged 2 milliper, killed herself by hanging from a bathroom gas fixture after doctors failed to halt her sneezing fits.
Advertisements promote Cuticura products for skin relief and a free mail sample offer via Cuticura Dept L Boston. A second note describes a sixty year old telescope used in customs offices, praised for its long service but now aging and shaky.
An OCR fragment advertises a Chicago firm, Marine Eye Remedy Co., offering a book titled Your Eyez and a claim to reduce aging signs. It includes a sales pitch urging readers to request the Senda Eya Book and to avoid revealing their age.
Delirious banter leads to mutual caution as a nurse promises to mind less about remarks while the patient recovers. The exchange highlights concern, care, and ongoing recovery dynamics between a nurse and an ailing individual.
A damaged text fragment notes a product named Grip- Laxative Bromo Quinine with the brand E W Grove’s on the box. It mentions an ocean vista and a boat motion as a contrast or effect. The passage is fragmentary and lacks a clear event or date.
When all others fail to please Try Deniaon's Coffee It is easier to get people to take your advice than to make them use It It is harder to save a penny than it is to earn it.
A fragment shows a politician professing readiness to support a woman and pledge to follow the platform. The dialogue includes a garbled line about subscribing to the platform and a reference to Denlaon’s Course implying a slogan about curing through insurance.
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