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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1899
Page
8
The Chronicle Telegraph notes peace treaty signs by peace commissioners and warns Hawaii troops may contract leprosy, while stomach disorders affect many. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for stomach issues malaria fever andague.
In a Chicago News piece a jest suggests the Prince of Wales could earn a living as a waiter, noting his experience and implying he could easily find work in a first chop house. The quip imagines royal duty in ordinary labor.
A Farmers' Review excerpt advises poultry keepers to provide dust baths using summer dust or coal ashes, dry forest leaves for litter, and a tight board floor. It warns nine-tenths of poultry disease arise from lice and emphasizes thorough cleaning and use of caustic potash to control lice and mites. It also covers milk sanitation to prevent germ spread from farm to city customers.
Edwin Bevins describes two methods to eliminate laying workers while preserving colony numbers. One uses a hive with laying workers placed over a fertile queen colony separated by a newspaper, then moves the upper hive to allow queen development. The other creates a nucleus from brood frames over a strong colony, releases a queen and escort, then transfers frames every few days to harmonize with the laying-worker hive.
Milk pails must be handled to keep disease germs out of milk. A pail can transfer illness from farms to city milkmen, linking disease to healthy people in distant cities. A scarlet fever case in a farmer’s house raises concern about using milk from cows in barns nearby.
Elgin Dairy urges creamerymen to demand first class milk from patrons to ensure a higher quality uniform product and fair prices. Encouraging better milk raises both quality and quantity, stabilizing the dairy industry while educating farmers toward better batte r milk and larger supply.
The dairy and food commissioner urges farmers to discourage preservatives in milk and butter. Citizens with influence should push legislators to prohibit such drugs in food. Roasters demand this season yields fifteen to twenty cents a pound, but roasters cost about five cents a pound and market demand declines. Fertilizing sour lands should start with correcting soil acidity and boosting decomposition and nitrification with liberal manures and lime. The ideal buyer is the man who has pride in his product.
A Country Gentleman contributor describes seed corn selection practices learned from his father. Focus on ears with short footstalks, firm shanks, and close-to-stalk ears for balanced weight and easier husking. Prolific bearing arises from constant selection, avoiding long drooping ears that tether stalls to the ground and rot.
A bulletin from the Ohio Experiment Station describes the oak yellow disease in peach trees as highly virulent this season, urging prompt removal and burning of affected trees to limit spread. Symptoms include premature fruit ripening, bud development changes, and general leaf yellowing. Authorities propose local fruit boards under township action to manage removal and public cooperation.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer presents a dialogue where a father rejects a young man’s marriage proposal, saying a man with leisure cannot marry into the family and asserting he must work. The excerpt hints at class norms and family authority in a historic urban setting.
The World notes a United Empire trade league report on Canada as a granary for Britain. Manitoba is cited with 87,000,000 cultivable acres after deductions, enough for 116,000 families. If 85,000 more wheat growers mapped 320 acres each averaged 100 acres at 20 bushels per acre, Manitoba could supply Britain with all needed wheat. The plan hinges on funding via a battleship cost to settle 6,000 families and seed, tools, and supplies until harvest.
A Cleveland Plain Teaser snippet recalls a playful exchange about Oscar Delgnan of the Merrimac. The dialogue wittily questions skill and timing as one speaker mocks a player’s early pace and later stop.
A humorous dialogue about salary cuts for sermons. Dr Thirdly laments reduction in pay after agreeing to shorten sermons. Dr Fourthly suggests lengthening sermons to prompt a compromise, reflecting a joke on clerical pay and expectations.
The notice urges readers to study the Advertisomenta and enjoy the advertisements. It claims advertisers are reliable and deliver what they advertise, suggesting readers gain amusement and bargains by engaging with the publication.
A club discussion mocks endless Shakespeare as members joke about enjoying light entertainment while a speaker warns against vanity and grooming, noting a woemada’s caution about powder and hair. The fragment hints at social humor and club dynamics with playful mis spellings.
A 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes endorsements from Weet & Urnax and others, promotes internal treatment aiding blood and mucous surfaces, lists price per bottle, and notes wide druggist distribution.
A fragment from the Washireton Star quotes Senator Sorghum debating whether Ys Aguinaldo is civilized. He concedes doubts but notes Aguinaldo speaks promptly for money during the exchange.
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