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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1916
Page
3
Margery and the unnamed male lead wrestle with love and guilt as a Colorado gold claim debt looms over their future. He cannot marry a convict or pay the price, while she urges patience and vows to wait, echoing the line Whatsoever seemeth good as their torn plans fragment.
Griswold confesses to a bold crime when cornered by detective Broffin after a bank robbery. Margery Grierson’s steadfast love tempers his fate as he agrees to return to New Orleans for trial. In time, the couple plans a future away from scandal.
A Philadelphia parrot screamed to summon police who entered the home and found the mistress dead from poison. The bird cried Get out as officers arrived, highlighting a bizarre fatal incident amid unclear circumstances.
Grace Marshall, sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Marshall, was found alive in a cramped eight by ten foot room in Easton Maryland after eight years of confinement. She suffered a broken leg mistreated early and later leaped from a second floor window, surviving only on crutches. Her uncle uncovered the scene, prompting aid workers and The Talbot county circuit court to intervene and remove the family to custody. Doctor Charles Davidson called her the most frightful case of physical deterioration he had seen.
Monroe couple Peter Jenny and his wife, after thirty three years of marriage with no serious quarrel or hour apart, applied for a divorce and will live separately for the rest of their days.
Waslee H T Sitty boys in the reform school revolted recently and after beating their teachers fled to the hills. Fifty one of the fugitives have been recaptured.
A physician promotes a morning regimen of hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate to flush stomach liver kidneys and bowels. The ad claims it cleanses the alimentary tract, prevents poisons from forming, and restores vitality, urging daily use before breakfast.
The Columbus Dispatch notes Vic Donahey and six of his ten children returning from Sunday school when a boy asked if fishes in the water died in the flood. The father delayed answering, highlighting his habit of answering questions on the spot.
In a terse exchange Mrs Dodsworth instructs her husband to enter by the back door only this afternoon to keep the Browning club's study and recitation atmosphere undisturbed by any object or interruption the Birmingham Age Herald notes the quip with a touch of humor about propriety and attendance.
AArkansas woman credits inability to pay for a specialist with saving her health by switching from coffee to Postum. She details ten years of stomach trouble, failed treatments, and headaches from coffee, and says Postum improved her sleep and pain. Postum Co. of Battle Creek promotes two forms, Postum Cereal and Instant Postum, with prices and a slogan There’s a Reason.
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