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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
3
Comprehensive plans from the Congregational conference in Davenport outline a five year campaign to boost church work with a 200000 dollar fund, aim for 10000 new Sunday school members by 1921, and strengthen layman and youth groups across Iowa. The fund will be split between state borders and nationwide use.
Plans for a new women’s reformatory at Rockwell City were nearly complete with bids to be requested soon and construction possibly let by June 30 1917. Fireproof one story cottages heat plant storehouse and admin building will form the complex expected to serve about 200 patients.
Rural and grade teachers will again receive free instruction at Iowa State College in agriculture home economics and manual training to begin in September. Courses run during both summer terms at Ames with opportunities to study other certificate subjects. More than half of this year’s Grinnell graduating class plans to become teachers. Commencement runs June 9 to 14 with Baccalaureate on June 11 and prizes awarded. Atlantic voters approve a 30158 bond for a new city hall housing offices, council jail auditorium and fire quarters. Mrs Richard Jones Boone marks 66th wedding anniversary. Late frosts threaten Iowa strawberry crops with freezing temps reported in Inwood Carroll Creston and Des Moines damaging gardens. A Fort Dodge May fete bleacher collapse injures five and hurts 300 spectators.
At the American Philosophical Society, Raymond Pearl explained experiments with alcohol and ether on hens and roosters. Immersed birds laid more eggs and fattened, but those intoxicated became lazy and quarrelsome, unfit to eat. alcohol overuse appears harmful to birds’ behavior and health.
Nonie Carl files for divorce from Herbert J. Carl alleging cruelty after their August 2, 1916 marriage. She says he called her bonehead and threw a box of matches that ignited a dress scarf, causing a fire and her fainting. She claims worsening health due to cruelty, with the complaint drafted by Charles F. Juttner.
In Pittsburgh a divorcing husband recounts how his wife hid his false teeth to extract money. He explains she refused to return the teeth even when angered, noting only payment could compel her to release them. The tale highlights a domestic ploy centered on valued dental prosthetics.
John N. Busch died when a steel instrument struck a souvenir shell from the battleship Maine. The shell exploded in Havana harbor, fatally injuring Busch and his young son during a picking incident in Wakefield.
Buffalo mother testimonial praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from monthly pain backache and other symptoms of menstrual disturbance. The ad urges afflicted young women to use the remedy and to contact the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential advice.
Robert W. Chambers warns in an antisuffrage address that modern girls chase votes and flirt with danger. An exchange at tea contrasts a woman's wish to be aviator with a placid matron who retorts that heaven may grant that wish someday, ending the "new-thought" ideas.
Report notes a man named Blank died without a doctor, with witnesses saying he managed alone. The fragment suggests concern over lack of medical assistance at the time of death. No further details on location or context available.
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