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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1919
Page
1
Barnes, lingering at a secluded estate, encounters a beautiful unnamed woman and a tense trio with O'Dowd and a wary landlord. Suspense deepens as a book agent and a mysterious car ride hint at a larger concealed plot surrounding the Green Fancy house party and a coroner’s inquest.
Wealthy New Yorker Syhopels Barnes on a walking trip in New England near the Canadian border is left by a mysterious attractive woman bound for Green Fancy. At Hart's tavern he meets a troupe of barnstorming actors led by Lyndon Rushcroft and Miss Thackeray. A night of murder and mystery follows as two mounted men depart the tavern and one is killed. Barnes helps uncover connections to Green Fancy while being drawn toward a mysterious girl.
A garbled excerpt describes a person willing to swear before a jury about a game car and a deposit at Hart's Tavern. It mentions a guessed occupant or driver from Green ancy and a book agent delivering a message, all in fractured prose with unclear sequence and attribution.
Barnes learns a mysterious note hints a book agent visited his room for three quarters of an hour while away. Officials question lodgers at Hart's Tavern as O Dowd pushes investigations, while Barnes contemplates joining a dangerous, piquant scheme and the Greco Fancy woman mystery.
The passage notes tea as Britain's most popular drink, citing William Cobbett's lament about tea shops replacing small beer. It asserts tea, the cup that cheers, remains a staple across classes and claims no marked deterioration from constant tea indulgence.
The quote notes that a state's military leader may be carried off while the will of a common person remains elusive and unyielding. It reflects on power, autonomy, and the limits of force against individual resolve.
The Stratford summer plan includes gutter paving for 45 blocks while Drake University graduates 160 students. Spencer reports land sales at 680 a front foot and Marshalltown mulls a 35000 city hall bond. Cedar Rapids revokes a citizenship paper for Swan Di Rosendahl amid loyalty charges. Several Iowa towns announce school graduations, industrial expansions, and political moves including J F Deama's gubernatorial bid. A Gilmour City cement plant expansion doubles size and raises capital to 3.6 million while Boone County notes a lifelong citizen who never naturalized. The Carroll bank shortfall reaches about 120000, with depositor pay expected. A Marengo resident purchases a car with pig sale proceeds from overseas service.
The article notes Rudyard Kipling’s first edition of Departmental Ditties as a lean fourfold pamphlet printed on brown paper with red tape. About a hundred copies were mailed in improvised official envelopes across the empire from Aden to Singapore, Quetta to Colombo, expanding as demand grew into a standard hardcover. Kipling recalled preferring the original little brown baby form.
A sewing machine with an individual motor reportedly averages 1,000 stitches per minute, far above the old foot-driven model which reaches 800 or 400 stitches per minute at best. The claim highlights motorized efficiency in modern appliances.
A shopper asks when summer fur wear began and, after a puzzled reply about Mashtkmnos, the moment ends with a humorous mishearing, illustrating a quirky street exchange about fashion history.
A playful exchange features Mrs Mullaly and others parodying a line about curfew as a schoolgirl imagines herself a born orator. The dialogue plays with Irish accents and comic mispronunciations, hinting at performance and dialect.
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