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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
8
Wilkesbarre man Harry Leim, after losing offers for tanbark, challenged Mosser & Co. in a chess duel. He won two of three games in four hours, securing 40 tons of tanbark at 40 cents a ton, a bargain driven by the coal strike and bark’s value for ashes.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for catarrh cured by Halts Catarrh Care. It includes endorsements from West & Truax and Walding Kinnan Marvin of Toledo and notes Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered free. price seven cents per bottle. druggists.
The Color Cure London Globe notes color's role in patient care. It cites Italian doctors using red in sickrooms and recalls Edward II supposedly cured by scarlet decor. While denying color as a sole cure, the piece argues room coloring influences mood and nursing success, warning against dull or yellowish greens.
Tre H. F. Brammer of Davenport Iowa offers a unique puzzle souvenir free to readers who write in The Brammer company manufactures the O K Washing Machine a top market machine. Items bearing the company stamp are reliable indicating the trade mark im pDifex O HK.
A dialogue from New York Weekly about economizing in a business run by Mr. and Mrs. Downtown. They discuss needing a boy to sweep, run errands, and perform tasks while the husband insists on employing men to supervise the boy.
A British consul report from Constantinople warns against using newspapers as parcel packing for export to Turkey. It notes customs will remove any unsuitable material found inside such packages. The teething remedy Mrs Winstow's Looth ing Syrup is recommended for children during teething.
Dr David L Kiehle of the Minnesota State University department of pedagogy is close to retirement after 27 years of public service in Minnesota education.
A scattered farmers column offers practical tips on livestock like dairy cattle and poultry, crop management, and farm economics. It praises white Leghorns and Angus, warns about wasteful barn work, extols hay storage, and suggests prudent debt habits and home market focus, ending with notes on butter cows and sugar purchases.
A farmer notes cellar cleanliness, seed potato size effects, and yields. He discusses school grounds, English sparrow breeding, and tree nesting patterns. The piece covers lawn weed control, automobile speed fears, cattle breeding plans, and robins sharing worms with sparrows in a neighborly scene.
The author argues against humane foes who condemn animal cruelty. They claim man is placed to subdue Earth and may use harsh means when gentler options fail, noting even nature’s processes are often harsh and not all humane.
A fragment discusses pet sympathy and a critique of those who advocate kindness to animals while ignoring the necessity of animal slaughter for meat. The writer criticizes overfondness for dogs and calls out neglect of hydrophobia concerns, with a bleary aside about Hearne and Nialel Rope.
The article urges ongoing home improvement as a value for families with limited funds. It compares splurging on a large house with neglecting upkeep, praising painting, cleaning, tree planting, and lawn care to raise curb appeal and family welfare. It notes American women’s taste and links home beauty to overall domestic virtue.
A regional report warns borers are the worst pest to apple trees, often unnoticed until extensive damage shows. Experts note white grubs girdle the trunk under the bark near the roots, risking tree death, while fruiting trees may also suffer from leafrollers and other pests.
A Pennsylvania writer asks how to combat a large black squash bug that destroyed squash vines last year. The pest feeds on the underside of leaves after two to three feet of growth, making spraying difficult. Three remedies are proposed this season hellebore powder, london purple and paris green, with reports to follow on effectiveness.
Sorghum is becoming a common forage crop with stock liking it when mildewed or dusty. Best results come from sowing last of May and cutting in fall before hard frost, then piling into 600 pound cocks to remain in the field until winter. It preserves juices and is valued as a substitute for silage.
Berlin chemistry professor Hein rich Reh patent claims wood based fodder as a nourishing cattle diet. He asserts young shoots tree bark and wood residues retain nutrients after processing and, with salt and water, become a cheap feed mixed with potato peelings corn hulls and beet sugar residue.
Banner report narrates how Mrs. B. C. Reese of Athens traces the island of Martinique to her grandmother Mime Gouvain. Gouvain, linked to Count de Trobriand and Josephine de Beauharnais, traded land to Count D'Estang, with holdings across the southern states including Georgia. Reece’s possession included a Napoleon marriage dress, while the estate divided among hundreds of relatives over time.
Sergeant Josef Froelich of the Alaska Prospector led a rescue when a boat with Mrs. Duncan McCabe tipped into icy Bay waters. He saved her from drowning with coolness and strength as others nearby hesitated. Fellow sergeants McHugh and Doggett faced danger nearby but were saved, while the incident sparked jokes at the fort.
The London Chronicle notes war in 1900 lowered marriage and birth rates and nudged death rates higher. Wheat prices fluctuated, but registrar data do not prove a direct link to trade. The wartime effect appears perceptible yet not drastic, with some sectors showing resilience.
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