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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1894
Page
8
A fragment from May Kendall reflects on a painted woman’s gaze and the narrator’s remorseful awe. The speaker laments his inability to claim the beyoned treasure, admitting she outstages his possession and wonders if she could have truly been painted by him.
Carry Belton, fired from a department store for a theft accusation, accepts a new wage job with Mrs Jessup at a rural farm. She plans marriage to Frank as her mother imagines a peaceful future. The lace handkerchief misdeed is found, lifting the cloud over Carry and paving a hopeful path away from city tenement life.
An Irish anecdote describes Peter Burrowes shaving with his face to the wall to “look in the gives.” A friend notes no looking glass, and Burrowes jokes that he hadn’t noticed. The servant explains the missing mirror had been removed six weeks earlier.
A New York Sun framed report describes migrating eels moving from brackish lower river to upper Delaware waters. It notes their one inch to two inch length, rapid movement, and seemingly impossible ascent past falls and barriers, with countless eels ascending tributaries to spawn.
An article discusses a central station superintendent's push for a demand meter to gauge actual consumer load. It notes effects on user habits, encouraging longer use of fewer lamps and enabling short, planned bursts. A monthly electric light bonus is offered with advance notice to the station. A separate English invention uses water to record current, similar to a gas meter, requiring only occasional water replenishment.
A novel ventilating device with an electric net, battery, and rotating drum adjusts room airflow by thermostat controlled vents. It can fit existing systems, start and stop at set temperatures, and maintain precise ranges such as 63 to 76 degrees Fahrenheit with minimal maintenance.
Curious Electrics reports that benzene used in silt and wool processing can ignite spontaneously due to electrical excitation. In cold dry air the spirit sparks and crackles, with ignition possible anytime. Eisaling suggests adding a soluble goop to prevent ignition, while soap moistens the spirit and reduces risk in moist or warm weather.
In Carson City a Buffalo Bill show failed to appear on opening night. promoter Charlea E B Locke sued, and judge Law Davis presiding ruled in Cody’s favor. Davis compared theater audiences to tragedies by Shakespeare and London, noting early crowds dwindled to few.
A garbled 19th century excerpt surveys animal perception and behavior. It cites the greyhound, carrier pigeon, dragonfly, mosquitoes, cicadas, a poison darting wasp, geese and ducks, woodpeckers, ants, and birds with gun-fire awareness. A Brazil naturalist recalls an Amazon expedition halted by a Nile sandpiper, whose telltale cry alarms game and guards sentinel duty.
Reporter details two men trapped as a car plunged down an embankment into a river and rolled over repeatedly. One survivor, Oraywill Buck, recalls the ordeal while authorities recount the rescue and the dangers faced during the crash.
A man recounts being tossed through a derailed car and into murky water after a wreck. He describes a calm fellow passenger guiding others, the peril of escaping, and one man returning to recover a waistcoat containing over $1,000. The tale ends with both men escaping and a triumphant line about the lost watch.
The navy department prepared a statement on how many merchant vessels could serve in war. Eighty ships on Atlantic and Pacific coasts could be used as transports, and slightly more than half could be fitted as cruisers with light batteries. Most are on the Atlantic coast. few on the Pacific coast. Subsidies aid shipowners. In war, transports could carry at least 100,000 men. cruisers could carry many more.
In a lighthearted exchange Jennie tells Fannie she frets because her father opposes Fannie's engagement to Charlie Rondelipper. Jennie brushes off the setback noting Charlie's good looks and wealth suggesting he will marry someone else soon.
An assortment of scrambled 19th century notes covers travel health, farming diets, and public anecdotes. It promotes Syrup of Iga as a kidney and bowel aid, mentions Hungarian wedding customs, a seed company manager touring Europe, and a rambling critique of whiskey vendors and bottlers. It closes with a humorous mule anecdote in a Dallas street scene.
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