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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1905
Page
8
An old note explains the polestar as the fixed point in the sky. It describes how the Big Dipper points toward Polaris and how the Dipper’s arc mirrors the Earth’s rotation. Indigenous names for the pole are mentioned along with the Great Bear as a navigational aid.
A Mrs A Wellatt praises Dodd’s Kidney Pills for kidney pain and sleepless nights. She details five years of distress, relief after one box, improved sleep, and renewed health, attributing her cure to the remedy. Also notes Moscow bans whips in horse-drawn transport, improving horse condition and carriage beauty.
A Maine family recounts a two year struggle with a severe skin eruption on a child’s shoulder. After trying several doctors without relief, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment cured the condition completely, leaving no scar or blemish. Signed by Luke Chase Walker of Woodford, Maine.
The Boston Globe notes the revival of scalloped trim in women's gowns, tracing its popularity to Empress Eugenie and the Second Empire. It discusses scallops as decorative yet costly, often handbound, and mentions variety through contrasting materials, with many gowns trimmed in this style.
An unclear mixed text recounts Joshua Heller from Urbana endorsing Doan’s Kidney Pills since 1899 and mentions other patent medicines like Hatl's Catarrh Cure and Hull's Family Pills. The fragmentary note includes promotional lines, prices, and stray dialogue about stockings and pawnbrokers.
Weekly history digest recalls events from a century past. It mentions the opening of Lavana port to American vessels, London stock gains on France peace overtures, export corn bans at Swedish and Prussian ports, plans to siege Gibraltar, Pontifical permission to invite lapsed oath bishops, Mexico unrest aid request, and English ships capturing a Spanish vessel with $200,000 and other valuables.
Seventy five years ago mentions reduced wine duties in Prugshe and a Bolivar proclamation to convene a constituent congress in Bogota. Fifty years ago cites a French law, Brooklyn municipal unification, a presidential veto explanation, and Lima triumphs. Forty years ago recalls Juarez bounty, Chicago cleansing plans, and treason trials. Thirty years ago covers Garibaldi pension refusal, wage talks, and Sheridan in Louisiana. Twenty years ago notes earthquakes in Europe, Carnegie quote on socialism, and B and O toll cuts.
Relatives of victims gather as Iroquois Theater tragedy anniversary prompts plans for an emergency hospital by the Iroquois Memorial Association. Coroner records show 602 killed across three levels. Jury verdict assigns responsibility to city officials and theater figures, with indictments pending for Davis Noonan Cummings and others as cases proceed before Judge Karaten.
The Vermont legislature considers commuting the death sentence of Mary Rogers, a state prisoner in Windsor. Reports from a legislative inspection describe her as mentally stable and calm, awaiting a possible stay of execution by another legislative session two years hence. She remains in solitary confinement with limited daily routine and pastoral access.
King Peter of Servia fears assassination daily while the Shah of Persia honors President Francis of St. Louis fair. A seven year old inherits the Bismarck fortune as Otto bears the name. The Duke of Wise nears the Lords as abstainer. The Japanese Emperor is under four doctors. Sir James Steel’s Edinburgh housing legacy noted. A Hamburg statue of Bramarck to be unveiled in 1906. Sokol Tuma in the US praises America as a global force. A vast Waterloo panorama by Joseph Van Drichten to be painted in Paris with 200,000 figures.
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