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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1897
Page
8
A garbled excerpt shows Hor Toca venting about Pickler and his wife, lamenting their actions and noting a wife’s heavy waltz requirement and a nurse’s past training before illness. The text is incomplete and reads as a casual overheard remark with unclear context.
Announcement urges readers to write Notre Dame University Indiana for catalog and notes its plan to begin the fifty fourth session on Sept 7 1897. Promises superior facilities for intellectual and moral development and recommends considering Notre Dame before other schools.
A ragbag of ad copy and humor lines: Tiall's Catarrh Cure and a cough syrup claim mix with mock political banter about railroads carrying bicycles free. Jokes about a doctor visiting Mrs. Fidget, Washington Star quips, and dental and laxative ads appear alongside trivia about rice paper not from rice and a bakery hole-in-doughnuts gag.
A garbled Glasgow account shows a lecturer debating marriage and fidelity with an old man in a crowded meeting. The exchange includes a puzzled question about what is wrong and a humorous, unclear reply about kissing one’s wife, reflecting a muddled scene.
A jumble of old ad snippets includes Allen's Foot-Ease claims for curing burning feet and bunions with a powder, priced at 25 cents, plus testimonials from druggists and shoemakers. It also mentions warnings about a will being read after a funeral, and quack health pitches like No-To-Bac tobacco cure. An oddity about a stage bathing-suited performer surfaces from Chicago gossip.
An OCR fragment lists schools including Enugational High Class Academy for Young Ladies in Dubuque and Mount Kt Joseph Academy for Girls offering regular and elective courses, vocal and physical culture. It touts malaria prevention by hot coffee and a disinfectant claim for a stove room, plus quotes about dyspepsia and Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The text also includes a dialogue fragment about a pyrotechnician and a humorous exchange referencing Napoleon and Blims.
A collage of patent medicine claims and comic exchanges from an 1800s era page. Features promotions for a Nodots cure and Narva Restorer, a No-To-One tobacco habit remedy, and mock dialogue about reading a Scottish dialect novel. Contains dates and regional references including Philadelphia and Cincinnati.
The article notes a revival in cattle business with rising prices and strong demand across beef breeds. It highlights pasture bred Jersey practices, new rules for calf registration after May 1, 1897, and urges careful bull management to ensure accurate pedigrees. It also mentions patents issued to Northwestern inventors and ends with a light exchange about separations.
The article discusses range cattle marketing as July opens, noting favorable feed conditions and small cattle numbers leading to superior market readiness. It highlights breeders increasing focus on pure bloodlines, the popularity of Cochins for breeders, and France's sheep statistics as context for meat demand. It also mentions cows sent to bulls for fees, and the need to select bulls with care to ensure strong offspring.
A government whitewash method for a poultry house describes mixing boiling water with burned lime and salt, then adding a thin starch glue and whiting. The recipe yields a thick cream like wash that can be colored, used at about six quarts per 100 square feet, and lasts well.
The article catalogs regional chicken calls from England to Denmark and Bohemia, noting varied terms such as coop, che, pee and tik. It cites Grimm and Weinhold on cries like pi pi and tuk tuk, then shifts to manure notes stating vegetable mould mixed with stable manure improves fermentation and composting efficiency.
A Detroit Press item notes a man living frugally by mowing lawns and splitting binding wood to fund meals, raising questions about his unemployment status and whether he is a professional tramp or a fraud. The piece presents local curiosity over his modest work to pay for dinner.
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