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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1899
Page
8
The article lists speeds ranging from 278000 miles per second for Leyden jar discharge to a snail's crawl of a quarter inch per second, then catalogs various motions and signals with speeds from walking to electric currents, illustrating vast differences in motion rates. It emphasizes the extraordinary rapidity of electrical phenomena versus everyday movement.
A list of patent ideas and inventors is noted including Walter C. Cunningham of St Paul Edward Groven of Bugley Minn and Oscar A Owlat from Gariten Minn with patents for a tobacco pipe windmills and fence posts. W Rels of Georgetown is tied to a speed destroyer with August Schinusch and Hugh Sidux of Sioux Falls listed among vehicle and buggy related developments. The piece also mentions Warren Sar a and the Pioneer Bros in St Paul with a stray quote about a man not being a friend and a Baltimore rail treasurer note about W E Simons reelection and long service.
A tongue in cheek quip from Leavled a Weekly contrasts marriage and divorce as revealing true character. Mrs Younghusband and Mrs Muchwed trade dismissive lines about knowing a spouse, highlighting social jokes on intimate insight.
The publication urges readers to read advertisements for entertainment and valuable bargains. It asserts advertisers are reliable and deliver what they advertise, promising amusing study and practical purchases.
In a New York Journal remark Mrs Wheeler laments poverty in the rich city recalling a family of ten with a single bicycle, highlighting destitution she encountered during visits. Mrs Walker responds with surprise as the conversation underscores urban hardship and inequality.
A noisy ad collage includes claims for Allen's Foot-Ease powder for feet and shoes, various tonics and patent medicines, and humorous quips about fame, timepieces, and bunco men. references to Chestnut Street scenes, Dr. Kiine’s cure, and a Wilmington quote about a whale story.
A Farmers' Review summary details successful practices in turkey and duck raising, hen incubation, coop design, feed, and dung management. Reports on turkey hatch rates, brooding by hens, dusting for lice, and the effect of bare ground on poults. Also discusses butter salt content, salt penetration, and factory handling, plus a report on swine fecundity trends from Indiana station data.
The American Poultry Journal notes leg weakness in young birds most often in cockrola and putlets aged three to five months. Larger breeds are more prone. overfeeding with fattening foods accelerates the problem. Early signs include unsteady gait and a limp. progression leads to reluctance to eat, thinning, dry skin, and social slipping. Remedies include removing triggering feeds like spice and cornmeal, scheduled meals, isolating sick birds, providing shade and cool water, and, with time, one-tenth grain quinine daily to rehabilitate the chick.
The New Zealand Dairyman explains Danish butter salting methods after buttermilk removal. Butter is weighed to determine salt quantity, which is then worked in at the butter worker. In some places salt is added in two separate workings rather than in one.
Prof Henry of the Wisconsin Experiment Station outlines millet from June 10 to 30 sowing rates of one to one and a half bushels per acre, cutting at flowering to yield one to two and a half tons of good hay per acre. Horses should have limited millet hay. Corn forage advice includes using any corn, early varieties for fall feed, plant in Hill or drill, feeding when ears glaze, and potential three to six tons per acre of winter forage from good land.
A survey traces twenty five to thirty years of poultry fancier progress noting shifts from Asiatic and Leghorn dominated shows to Barred Plymouth Rocks Javas Wyandottes and Buff variants. It highlights rapid breed improvement and quotes a practical observer on costly lice infestations and a humorous aside about California almonds and Chicago soap use.
An Iowa Agricultural College address outlines methods to assess sheep quality by hand, focusing on anatomy from head to hindquarter. It covers how to detect faults, gauge depth and spring of ribs, and values of different cuts, followed by notes on lice fumigation, sugar beet fertilization, and pruning shaping for orchards.
C W Sorenson former New Zealand dairy chief, now in Copenhagen, protests Mr Gibson’s claim that preservatives are essential in curing butter. He argues Danish butter is produced without preservatives, cites exported NZ butter with no additives, and challenges statements about preservatives preventing disease and aiding digestion based on bacteriology and medical evidence.
G B Lawson recalls a visit to a creamery praised for spotless floors and neat machinery. A tramp entered with muddy boots, apologized for his mud, and showed how cleanliness influences perception and product quality. The writer urges creamery operators to maintain cleanliness to deter unwanted intruders and improve image.
A Drainage Journal writer warns that roots of elder and other water-loving trees near drains can invade tile joints, clogging water flow. The piece also contrasts poultry breeds, noting the tradeoffs between foraging ability and confinement tolerance, and discusses profitability of old versus young sheep based on health and flesh recovery after lambing.
Sensational actress declares anger over divorce while tapping foot in public scene. She asks if the trouble is over the divorce. She mentions a lawyer offering a private settlement without publicity as a possible solution.
In Brooklyn Life a humorous exchange shows Tepsou asking how his wife reacted to a new suit and Flarveys replying she disliked it to the extent he claimed it was a bar gain.
An old advert lists Alien's Foot-Easer for swollen feet and bunions sold by druggists and shoe stores, with a 25 cent sample offer. It also jokes that a farmer’s pride is a $3 prize pig at the county fair and a woman may look shopworn after a long town day while a man keeps his watch clean for appearances.
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