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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1909
Page
6
Send a postal request for a medical examination blank and have Munyon's eminent doctors diagnose your case free of charge. The offer promises thorough diagnosis with no obligation to follow advice and lists Munyon's address at 53d and Jefferson Avenues, Philadelphia, Pa.
A man selected ties for himself and discarded several as not suitable. The salesman revealed that ties rejected by five or six buyers are moved to a separate box. When asked what becomes of them, the buyer learns they are sold to women buying ties for men.
Public notice promotes Castoria as a trusted vegetable remedy for children. It cites doctor testimonials, including Dr. William J. McCrain, and emphasizes Castoria’s safety, stomach soothing effects, and sleep aid without narcotics.
The prosecution attorney grilled a potential juror dubbed Mr Sines about opinions on the case. The juror replied that he never trusts newspaper reports, saying he never believes anything he reads.
Duluth endured a second night of record rain with up to 1.0 million dollars in estimated damage. Basements flooded across the city, streets turned to rivers, and Lake avenue areas saw two feet of water. The Bijou Theater flooded during a show prompting a near panic as streetcars stopped functioning and hotels reported seven feet of water in basements.
Ralph Sherman a 27 year old former foreign correspondent for Knauth Nachod Kahne confessed to burglary after being caught at Far Rockaway with loot from Reuban Sadowsky. He had fallen from a banker’s role at 13 William Street earning 5000 dollars yearly. Police found a gold watch and six stickpins on him. He blamed a quiet life in a bank for turning to crime.
About 3,000 motormen and conductors on Interstate Railways traction lines in eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware learned the wage rate would be restored to 18 cents an hour from Aug 1, ending a 14 14 cent decrease made a year earlier. Officials had promised an increase when business warranted and no demand was made by workers.
Fire swept the southern business section of Long Branch New Jersey causing about 100000 dollars in damage. Starting in a livery stable near Second Avenue flames spread rapidly to adjacent frame structures destroying a dozen buildings though few were valuable. No serious injuries reported. Sunnten reported a severe quake near Victoria British Columbia. The Norwegian steamer Tricolor carried news from Sumatra of a mid June earthquake with about 300 deaths. Mobile Alabama police impose a curfew for Negroes requiring them to be at home by 10 p.m. due to a string of hold ups.
A body of an Armenian was found in a Liberty street rooming house in Lynn Massachusetts with a bullet wound over the heart and a mutilated face. The remains were partially identified as Frantic Jones who had rented the room a month earlier.
Nelson Tully fatally shot his wife in their Latonia home after a separation and then shot himself. Their two young sons witnessed the tragedy and both parents suffered likely fatal injuries.
Mrs Rebecca Moore age 69 and her son George H Moore 30 both die from ptomaine poisoning attributed to food they ate in Bunceton Missouri. In Ohio, Highland coal mine at Warnock sees fire damp explosion that instantly kills Thomas Southern the mine superintendent.
Bandits robbed The State Bank of Tulare on a Wednesday heist. A safe was blown and $1,900 taken. Three men formed the gang and fled the scene. Also noted, the Giga schooner tied to explorer Amundsen and a fatal Flatbush shooting at an importer’s home.
A Minneapolis reader's testimonial lauds Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing female ailments, urging publication to show its help to other women. The letter notes confidentiality and free advice from Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. A Kansas City Journal anecdote about child jurors follows, describing a judge's experiment with young witnesses choosing whipping as punishment.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a joke aging beyond print, joking it travels to the stage and then the theater program before fading, yet humor lingers in congressional cloakrooms as a lasting curio of public life.
A Kansas doctor reports on using Grape-Nuts to aid his four year old son’s pneumonia recovery gaining eight pounds in a month. An elderly patient with serious stomach trouble also improves after two to three weeks on the cereal with milk and a touch of sugar. The doctor notes many cases where Grape-Nuts works wonders and invites readers to read The Road to Wellville.
Congress met in short sessions with the Senate adjourning after eighteen minutes on Friday. The House debated the urgent deficiency bill, rejected a $20,000 allocation for the Brussels exposition, and adjourned until Monday. Tuesday brought more routine business, including a bridge bill and remarks by Hobson. The Senate discussed a tax amendment, then adjourned until Friday. The Pittsburgh Survey and medical science remarks followed, noting Ida Tarbell's critique and Dieffenbach’s call for broader medical study and X-ray use in diagnosis.
Judge Clifford in Tacoma Washington ruled the new state anti cigarette law unconstitutional. Loudon Chariton of New York appointed business manager of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. Mrs William C Grant of Chicago aged 75 and her sister Misa Catherine A Baker arrived in New York after a world tour.
Early 1900s reader letter from Mrs R R Whitaker of Winchester Virginia describes a two and a half year old child suffering a painful itchy rash on hips and legs, constant scratching, sleepless nights, and yellow discharge. After two doctors failed, Cuticura Remedies were used for two weeks and the child recovered completely. The note quotes Mrs Whitaker dated September 22 1908 and mentions Potter Drug & Chem Co as Cuticura's sole proprietors.
A fragmented city dialogue muses on beekeeping and suburban life while stressing constant readiness with Tiamlin's Wizard Oil. It cites the 1908 U S cotton crop value at 722 million dollars and mentions Algerian vineyards yielding the highest per acre.
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