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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
6
A garbled OCR fragment presents a whispered exchange about a mustache and affection between a young man and a young woman. The text is incomplete and unclear, with illegible names and context, reflecting a damaged page segment from a women’s magazine.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin firm Myoung Wiscute nity issues a series of color postcards showing animals at the Washington Walk in Milwaukee. A set will be mailed upon receipt of 17 cents at Port Card Dept Milwaukee Wisconsin.
OCR fragment blends fiction and advertising hints with jumbled quotes. It mentions Our Pie grocer stock and a D-Zertn Co packaging, then shifts to a question about Muara and a German socialist leader. The text is unclear and conflicts in tone, with stray names and product mentions.
A testimonial from Mrs. Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as restoring health after twelve years of female illnesses and eleven doctors offering no help. The ad claims the remedy surpasses drugs and urges women to seek Mrs Pinkham's guidance.
The column touts D D D Prescription lotion for skin diseases including eczema and psoriasis, claiming cure through topical use while criticizing internal medicine. It includes a testimonial from Mrs W. R. Little and basic ordering details with a free sample offer. Also mentions Mira star behavior and a celestial forecast by Garrett Sergiss.
The Philadelphia Record reports a Todin prince’s clock with a gong replacing the hind and a heap of artificial skulls on a silver plate forming twelve skeletons. When the hour strikes, bones align, a hidden mechanism lifts the skeletons, one strikes the gong, and the figures collapse. at noon twelve skeletons rise to mark the time, a grim, terror-inspiring spectacle.
A railroader describes chronic indigestion hindering work and costing health. After poor relief from doctors and diets, he tries Grape-Nuts and reports steady digestion, increased energy, seven-pound gain, and renewed appetite within a week. His wife also uses the cereal with benefit.
A collage of dated items from 1400 to 1903 lists battles, treaties, and political milestones including War of the Roses, Washington at Princeton, Congress chartering the Bank of North America, the Monitor disaster, and other 18th and 19th century events. It weaves in brief anecdotes and scattered remarks on figures like Jefferson, Dreyfus, and Amelia Bloomer, plus unrelated prose fragments.
The American Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, meeting in Philadelphia, urged Professor V. Uprecht of the University of Pennsylvania to publicly answer charges that tablets he claimed to have dug up at Nippor were bought in the Orient and never seen near Nippor, with some tablets alleged to have been in other hands years before his discoveries.
In a Chicago interview Rear Admiral Goodrich commander of the New York Navy yard said Henry Meyterdahl was correct about defects in the American navy. He added he had expressed similar views to the Secretary of the Navy and that the President is preparing to press for a general reorganization of naval bureaus.
The Californian Canners Association awards 800 million cans to American Can Company of Pittsburgh, to be delivered at 60 million per year over five years. The deal reportedly pressured by steel interests amid threats of California can plant growth by feint growers in the region.
The lower East Side tenants organize a citywide rent protest led by socialists. Rallies draw between 3,000 and 70,000 participants as meetings are disrupted by police. Landlords anticipate rent reductions amid mounting pressure from the movement.
In Montmartre at a Boulev ard de Clichy cafe Marguy, once a gifted pianist, tainted by a ruined life and a broken romance, killed himself after playing a funeral dirge and a Dead March. He had long suffered misery, arrests for drunkenness, and social exile before the fatal act.
An advertisement touts Paizo Ointment promising healing for itching wind bleeding or protruding hemorroids within 6 to 14 days with a money back guarantee if not cured. The text emphasizes a rapid effect and full refund.
A fragmentary exchange shows a correspondent asking Senator Lota about abolition of capital punishment. He grins and replies that capital has been punished enough, suggesting skepticism about abolition.
A woman observes a poorly dressed man resting on a park bench and concludes he is a servant or helper. She asks if he is employed in the park, and he calmly replies that he is not doing anything at the moment.
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