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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1903
Page
3
A poetic lament in which the speaker pleads for mercy and safe passage at sea. The piece blends nautical imagery of storms, sails, ropes, and stars with a wish to reach a peaceful, distant home beyond the drowned gallons and dim green quiet sea.
Albert Whitney, a modest hardware clerk, attends a dinner at the Pennington home where he catches the eye of Gladys Pennington. After a family dinner, a wealth infusion emerges when Judge Steinberg reveals Albert’s inheritance from distant great-uncle Morris Whitney, totaling over $600,000. The Pennington family agrees he is a worthy beneficiary and invites him again, while Gladys eyes him with new interest as the gate to happiness opens.
A new method to reduce dust in streets and on roads spreads a thin tar layer after washing and crushing paving. The tar forms a hard, durable surface that resists rain and leaves no hoof marks, costing about 1 cent per square yard. American farmers flood the Canadian Northwest wheat belt in 1902, with many from Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota, and rail traffic records show thousands crossing into Manitoba and nearby territories. Dr Frederick W True will supervise Smithsonian and St Louis exposition exhibits.
The 1790 message from President Washington urged fair treatment of Capt. Robert Gray of the Columbia. Gray named the Columbia River in 1792 and claimed Oregon for the United States. Oregon’s path to statehood stretched to 1859, with territorial waters long seen as beyond American reach. The Inter Ocean notes Hawaii and the Pacific cable links as U.S. expansion grows from Washington’s era to the Philippines.
Inventor D Albona of London presents an automobile designed for plowing reaping mowing and other farm tasks. The vehicle uses special wheels an electric motor and can move backward as easily as forward. He claims it costs less to reap or mow with the automobile than with horses and says any farmer can learn to use it.
A Baltimore woodcarver crafted a remarkable eagle from locust wings and other insect parts, measuring over three feet with wings spread. The piece, mounted on stiff canvas and glued to a frame, took more than two months to complete and drew praise from naturalists for its realistic proportions and detailing.
January magazines feature Serah Bernhardt examining the theater’s moral influence with contributions from actresses. The era also recalls Lillian Russell’s quip about pay for articles and the value of magazine writing over soap ads with a tone of candid humor. The piece cites EB L. Cortell’s Growth of Gross Cities talk and population projections for New York Philadelphia and Chicago from 1910 to 1920. The Hartford Courant opposes funding a relief fund for Senator Hawley noting his remaining two years and public support across parties.
The New York bar argues congested United States district court has a flood of bankruptcy cases and seeks relief. Congress may consider bankruptcy legislation this session but time is short and some senators want full repeal. Also reported are King Edward winning in a Swedish lottery drawing, and King Oscar placing 21st. Additional items cover sermons by the late Dr. Joseph Parker, India’s participation in St Louis exposition, Boston teachers' retirement fund, New York city death rate records, tea exports from British India, a Knoxville dispatch on Robert A. Miller Jr. expelled from the University of Tennessee, Cambridge University lectures on geography and ethnology, Laubat prizes at Columbia, and Uncle Sam’s fish propagation expenditures.
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