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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1903
Page
3
A wide-ranging column surveys summer conditions, homestead prospects, and farming tips. It discusses public land, Canadian settlement, butter prices, and future crop exports. Practical guidance covers windbreaks, soil fertility, oat cooking, and moisture needs for apples. It notes labor, farm women, and rural resilience.
A grade Angus steer won top honors at the Chicago stock show, prompting discussions on blooded stock versus common grades. Dr. Sheldon Jackson aided Alaska reindeer introductions, aiding internal transport. A Nebraska lightning rod man faced warrants after disputes with grangers, then moved on. Two men founded towns forty years ago, each cherishing different trees as their landscapes grew with cemeteries and parks of pines.
The text praises two early developers whose long-ago trees and beautification work turned the city into an evergreen haven. Ten miles away, mature maples planted forty years ago now color avenues with a wealth of fall hues unseen since the original forests were cleared. The two men have passed, but their legacy remains.
A portrait of the bullfighter as a social stage figure. The matador's uniform, hair, and mirrorlike attire mark status and ritual. He walks the Prado in high French heels, nods to Madrid's youth, and bows to patrons before the kill, stirring envy among spectators and women alike.
In a Babylon Republican rally, a historic cannon used in political feuding becomes the center of a plan by Democrats to guard the event. Ralph Marlowe declines to help, warning against violence. The crowd gathers, a brass cannon is displayed, and a Fortown Glee Club parade entertains as tensions flare amid rain, fog, and political hustle. The scene captures local power plays, rival loyalties, and the buildup to a heated election clash.
A Scandinavian family man with $400 seeks land for a home and considers forty acres of timber land in central Missouri at $10 an acre, unimproved prairie land in northwestern Kansas at $6, and northern Wisconsin Minnesota pine lands. The Missouri option appears most attractive for climate, stock feed, and crops, though distant. Kansas is too risky for crops, and north Wisconsin Minnesota offers a similar climate with strong rainfall and harsh winters but better soil for grains. The suggested priority is Missouri first, Wisconsin second, and Northwest Kansas last.
The plan suggests eight foot spacing with alternating soft and hard wood. Plant soft maple for soft wood, and for hard wood favor FARM No. 3 white ash larch with some hard maple hackberry and black walnut. Remove soft woods after ten years to leave a hard wood grove. Keep cattle out, hogs in, Belt the perimeter with pine rows, avoid box elder and cottonwood as main grove.
The west and northwest horticultural meetings focus on a hardy productive winter apple of good quality. New seedlings show promise, premiums reward promising varieties, and current stock covers July to Christmas with excellent hardiness. Malinda and Northwestern Greening lead for May keeping, though Northwestern Greening is a slow bearer.
Report says Alabama currently has over 1,700 coke ovens under construction with more planned to finish in six months. When in operation, the ovens will eliminate the need to import coke from other states.
An esteemed friend of Cardinal Manning, Rev. Robert Butler D D of the Oblates of St. Charles and rector of St. Charles College Bayswater London has died. Butler was a learned priest noted for humility, one of his strongest traits.
After four years of work John Henry of Tamaqua Pa expects to complete noon and flying machine capable of hitting 20 times its weight. He plans to enter it for the $100,000 prize at the World’s event.
Public meetings in Christiana protest the current Norwegian government accused of robbery and squandering public funds. Demonstrators oppose abroad contracting for work that could be done by Norwegian workers, highlighting national economic grievances.
After systematic exploration of Forum atrata Professor Boni an Italian archaeologist believes he has uncovered the Necropolis of primitive Rome dating to the eighth century before Obrist.
The sculptor Bartholdi submits a colossal model to Paris authorities for a monument commemorating the three sieges of Paris. The work would occupy a city square and is described as the artist’s most important recent project after designing New York’s Liberty statue.
Commercial travelers arriving from abroad to Sweden must obtain a license costing one hundred crowns per month. Hotel staff avoid informing them to protect their share of a ten crown fine imposed on those who fail to secure a license.
Six hundred children from Edinburgh's poorest class were washed en masse at the corporation baths and then given new clothes. One child remarked that the clothes were good but very dear in price.
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