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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1897
Page
8
Practical notes on cheese making and dairy hygiene. Professor Russell discusses bacterial action in milk and whey vats, stressing caretaker cleanliness and proper milk handling to control fermentation and improve cheese quality. Detailed charts show bacteria counts over aging, highlighting lactic acid bacteria as the ally of cheese makers.
The text details feather patterns for the Brahma cock and hen, noting white body with black hackle and tail, black striped wings, yellow shanks, and greenish black orbs on feathers. It specifies head traits, comb shape, and eye area, including the importance of masculine head qualities in the female and edge details on tail feathers.
Wisconsin farmer Alexander Galbraith projects a five to six million dollar foreign market for horses next year. Europe, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Belgium, are buyers for top quality stock. He argues the industry has time to retool, urging farmers to breed for 1900 and noting rising prices at public sales while foreign demand should expand as supply tightens.
Wisconsin station experiments by Prof. Babcock show little difference in total milk yield between fast and slow milking. Quality improves with fast milking, especially in high-yield cows, while low-milk cows late in lactation are least affected. Fast milking boosted fat yield by about 11.73 percent on average. The harsh winter also reduced field mica near Greenwood, Maine.
P D Smith recounts a dramatic escape from a deserted mine shaft in Deer canyon San Fernando range. While timber collapsed trapping him underground for an hour the only help came when his intelligent dog Boss whined at a neighbor’s house. The dog led Walton to the shaft where he was rescued.
The piece weighs the civil service career as a noble public service versus a trap that lures ambitious individuals with a taste for paid office. It argues that political influence and the allure of government salaries corrupt independence, turning capable youths toward petty positions and toadying, harming merit and reform.
A Nashville professor aiming to study black speech for a story visits near Union Station. He asks a coal black wagon driver to demonstrate dialect saying a line that reveals his ignorance. The joke shocks him, causing him to retreat to his lodgings.
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal notes confusion over the styling of portraits. The dialogue discusses why George’s image appears with a bald head and a skirted uniform, hinting at miscaptioned or misrepresented photos in wartime imagery.
Potenta Taaned reports last week patent grants to Northwestern inventors. Names include Joslin T. Baxton Ipswich D O tell iman Peter M. Carlson K J Hae berg Duluth Minn press board Bery O. Davis Crookston Minn clastic horseshop Edward I Gibson Atinne apolia Minn paper toy Thomas J Howe D J Ames HN Labare Owntonna Minn combined churn and butter worker Walter Munch St Paul Minn removable pulley stile for windows William 4 Rolph Minneapolis Minn sofa bed Joseph Setueh Ground Grove Minn mille separator T D Merwin patent lawyer 010 Pioneer Press Building St Paul Minn.
In Hartford, a robin rescued at No 48 Wooster Street by Miss Edin Bartlett was kept as a pet. The bird learned to whistle and imitate birds and now repeats the phrase Hurry up hurry up with notable clarity.
A citizen praises Hood s Barsaparitta and Hood s Pills for health in St Paul Minnesota. The other story from Belfast recounts two farmers viewing an oil portrait of a church dignitary remarking on his pleasant face and a play on words about the artist’s care.
The article cites sound distance examples from a locomotive to a cricket chirp and discusses Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy across distant lands. It previews a proposed Baltic Black Sea canal 950 miles long and a 100 million dollar cost, with completion projected for 2002. It also mentions a tobacco cure and a church stance against intemperance.
An old advertisement extols liver health and blood purity as the path to beauty. It promotes Cascarets candy cathartic to cleanse bile, purify blood, and improve appearance, with prices and mail order claims. It also mentions a Continental dealer offering titles and decorations with high prices, including orders and honorary distinctions.
In Nubia a tree famed for wind produced flute like sounds was puzzling locals until a traveler found swarms of insects deposit eggs on young shoots creating galtlike excresences. Wind through the holes of these galls produced the eerie tones. the tree may be the only one bearing ready made whistles.
A Portland man who lost a pocketbook containing $300 three years ago found it in an old chest while recalling school days prompted by a friend's death notice. He remembered placing it on his bed and, after reading the obituary, searched the chest where the pocketbook and money were still intact.
A Detroit Tribune note describes a method using two pens of equal size in a pinholder to regulate ink flow. The inner pen writes while the outer keeps ink from flooding. Regular cleaning of the pen is advised to maintain best results.
A jumble of notes and quips appears with stray phrases on medicine prices operatic fashion and a crime mention. It notes Halls Catardh Cure price 70, a Miss Beare fashion moment, a teacher’s remark about tardiness, a lynching anecdote, homicide rates in New York City, London police Christmas gifts, and a treadmill carriage invention with a workhorse.
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