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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1894
Page
6
A fragmented verse recalls missed meetings in gardens and foreign locales. The speaker laments not meeting among flowers or in foreign lands, noting wealth, beauty, and distant robes as distant images and expressing a sense of unfulfilled union.
In a frontier gathering, a $500 reward for the fugitive drives Hi Lun slug and Frank Crandall to pursue a suspect across snowbound basins. Crandall shoots the fugitive in a tense standoff, tends his dying rival, and faces uneasy farewell as night falls and a grim end lingers over the chase.
A long, fragmented feature describes a neglectful manager paying salaries late, a scabrous chest of talk about a touring actor and laundry costs, plus notes on explosive sensitivity to sound, a lone rider's sleepless trek, and early electric locomotive patents with patent details and device mechanisms. The piece blends odd social anecdotes with speculative science and tech innovations of the era.
Mr Hiram Maxim recently demonstrated a bullet resistant cuirass which initially seemed a joke but may teach British military authorities a lesson. He believes the English government will soon decide if it is being fooled by a German tailor or an American engineer. The cloth, claimed to be bulletproof, is said to be two pieces of armor rather than the protective material described.
An experimental plan by a group of horticulturists introduces moving glass houses that can be laid into the soil and shifted to suit required protection or forcing. Heated or unheated units adapt to crops needing protection, ripening, or succession planting, offering economical production and climate resilience for professional and amateur horticulturists.
The article recounts the Confederate flag design debated by Congress, favoring a field with horizontal white stripes and a central blue canton, and Miss Louisa Tyler from Bristol, Pa, chosen by President Davis to unfurl the flag in Montgomery, describing her recollections of the ceremony and its significance.
A brisk survey of ancient beliefs describes the sacred crocodile cult with temple rites, embalmed beasts in granite sarcophagi, and grand Serapeum monuments. The piece recalls priestly duties, royal funeral costs, and clashes between rival cities over crocodile honors, ending with Keatsian reflection on mortality.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a copper coin issued by opponents of Andrew Jackson in 1834. One side features a hog with slogans Perish credit Perish Commerce and Big Victory Down with the Banks. the other side shows My Substitute for the U. S. Bank with a Jackson medallion and the caption Experiment, My Currency, My Glory.
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