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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1911
Page
8
A government bulletin promotes concrete floors in barns and granaries to prevent rat damage and fires. It details trench foundations, form construction, bolt placement, and step by step mixing, pouring, and finishing for durable floors that keep grain dry and mold free.
A city working girl faces grueling hours, low pay, crowded housing, and strict oversight, while country girls enjoy stability, independence, and better prospects. The piece contrasts urban drudgery with farm life, arguing rural women experience more dignity, health, and future security.
The Home Beautiful advises straight walks and driveway for small yards while curved paths suit large grounds with shrubbery. It recommends watering ferns every two to three days, and larger plants like palms and rubber plants weekly, with thorough watering each time.
A saying warns that the color gray never fully returns once bred out and that a gray colt will always produce a gray parent, reflecting old beliefs about horse coat genetics and heredity.
A young man sits center car with a new diamond ring, admiring it openly while an older passenger counters with a pocketful of rings and a large lapel diamond. The scene ends as the ringed man leaves, briefly deflated, as a jewelry salesman returns to his paper.
Arthur J. Clair reports green heart timber, plentiful in British Guiana, used in Manchester ship canal lock gates and Mersey harbor gates for fifty years. It is specified for Panama canal sills and fenders and used in Methil docks. Green heart shows exceptional durability, resisting pile worm and retaining strength after decades.
Dr Neff Philadelphia health director distributes a circular warning to Quakers about pneumonia prevention. He urges constant ventilation in homes and public buildings, stating night air is purer than day air and urging open windows to improve air quality.
Two women recall the moment when a young man named Pufferly, under the mistletoe, faced their rebuke. He merely smiled and quipped, BY Tova, the joke's on me, leaving onlookers puzzled by his politeness.
An agent asked how the new filing system fared. The merchant replied with a laugh that business had halted as they sent all to the filing system, a commentary on disruptive adoption.
Western Canada offers rich returns from flax along with wheat oats and barley. Boats leaving Fort William with flax cargoes valued in the hundreds of thousands highlight strong lake movement and demand. Free 160 acre homesteads and railway lands present quick settlement potential near developed routes. Canadian government literature is available through agents for more details.
An old advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for backache headaches and urinary troubles. It quotes Edward Parache of Cleveland Avenue Chicago Illinois praising relief from dropsy related swelling after using the pills, selling for 60 cents a box by Foster Milling Co. and featuring Winslow’s soothing syrups as a companion remedy.
The text asserts Resinol Ointment as a known healing boon to humanity credited to W J Callan of Brooklyn New York. A humorous poultry anecdote asks whether a hen cackling indicates laying or lying eggs, sparked by a curious diner.
The fragment touts Hamling Wizard Oil as a remedy to swallow distress, advising three parts water for instant relief. It claims that aggressive advertising supports selling the entire stock, implying a strong commercial motive behind the claim.
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