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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1921
Page
3
In Star North Carolina a woman suffered monthly ailments for four years despite two doctors advising surgery. After seven months using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills she regained strength and can work again, prompting a testimonial urging other women to try the remedy.
Mrs. Eden Harris testifies that the first Entonie dose relieved her digestion and shows how thousands claim Entonie removes excess acidity and food repeating. The ad claims it treats indigestion heartburn bloating belching and related non organic ailments and offers Hatonic at a small price with a druggist guarantee.
A vivid stage moment shows a young author dramatizing destiny and courage as he reaches for his partner, defies prejudice, and vows to win or die. Life Brother observes with admiration, praising his potential as a grand football player.
A vintage advertisement promotes Cuticura products for baby skin care. It recommends Cuticura Soap for hot baths, Cuticura Ointment for itching and roughness, Cuticura Talcum as indispensable toilet preparation, and the scented powder for fragrance and dusting.
A brief quoted remark notes contentment in recognizing resemblance, with Shinbone arguing that contentment is a fine thing but its kin is hard to distinguish from laziness. The Boston Transcript is cited as the source of the remark.
In a rural scene Harris debates family duty and land hunger as his wife contemplates leaving with their son. Aware of looming changes, Harris plans one final talk while balancing responsibilities to his mother and the farm. The tension deepens as neighbors weigh in on money, work, and the pull of new homesteads.
Chapter IX follows Riles on a weary westward rail journey to a foothill town where Beulah Harris has recently arrived. After checking into a cheap hotel, a conman sits with him at the bar and a cowboy named Horseback George makes a dramatic entrance, prompting a tense, comic scene before Riles retires to his room where trouble knocks.
Gardiner, a calculating visitor, arrives at Riles’s room in Plainville asking about past troubles and government land deals. The dialogue reveals a wary reunion and hints at collaboration or further schemes in a border town setting.
In a rural note from the district, a woman recalls worries fade as threats surface and a plan forms. Harris and neighbors debate actions, while a break in comes with a late visit and proposed arrangements for farm care.
A long-winded excerpt blends recipes and aphorisms. It describes baked stuffed fish with salt pork and bacon, ragout of venison with potato border, New England erection cake with yeast raised dough, and house aphorisms about hard work and economic salvation, attributed to the Saturday Evening Post.
A vintage kitchen fragment lists wintry treats including Molasses Orog Cookles half butter, sugar, and molasses with currants and spices, Date Cake with dates and walnuts, and Spice Nut Bars with almonds and citrus. Directions mix and bake in sheets, then frost or slice, to store in a tight box.
Six year old Robert Lee Phillips of East Washington Street in Indianapolis is said to be impressed by school. While cutting paper animals he repeats the line Flea is white. The glider brother asks where he learned it and the child replies at school with a modified verse about Mary had a little lamb whose fleas are white as snow.
Advertisement notes catarrh worsens when run down and claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine Tonic and Blood Purifier purifies blood to reduce symptoms. Mentions free circulars from J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Ends with a proverb about a millionaire and words.
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