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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
1
Barnes enters a stormbound town and meets Lyndon Rushcroft the aging star in a shabby taproom. Dillingford introduces Barnes to battered realities of the company as the party recounts their misfortunes and the manager’s grandiose manner clashes with local bluntness.
In a Virginia era scene at Hart's Tavern, Mr. Rushcroft quarrels with Mr. Barnes over supper and theater circles while Miss Tilly sketches a handsome stranger. The tale shifts to a tense mood as Barnes contemplates travel and a mysterious crossroads woman amid looming hills.
Wealthy New Yorker Thomas K. Barnes plans to spend the night at Hart's tavern when a mountain storm strands him at a lonely cross road. A girl bound for Green Fancy offers him a ride in an auto, and he later joins a troupe of barnstorming actors led by Lyn don Rushcroft with Miss Thackeray.
A tavern entertainment at Hart's tavern shifts from serio comico to a tragic scene as a battle erupts ending in murder and sudden death. Local patrons witness the violent turn and authorities begin investigations.
A historical account notes a rare instance among sphex wasps where a mother wasp uses a pebble as a hammer to pack dirt into the entrance of a tunnel holding her eggs. The behavior is described as a race habit, with repeated digging and pounding to harden the ground.
A cryptic fragment references mercy and gates with imagery of a veil beside prophetic or philosophical lines. The piece hints at future mercy and a crossing through a symbolic barrier, leaving interpretation open.
Saffe Gentle Remedy claims to restore health of kidneys liver bladder and stomach and combat urinary troubles. Haarlem capsules marketed as a life restoring tonic with warnings of sleeplessness fatigue backache and despondency. Drugstores offer refunds if unsatisfied and seal packs warn against substitutes.
Blind Jefferson City man Edward Jones, guided by touch, has built his own poultry house and brood coops, hatched chicks, culled his flock, and markets birds as broilers. He attends poultry meetings, aims to form a poultry club for the blind, and plans reading help from the county home demonstration agent.
A fragment shows a quip about an ideal husband with a joke that a man permits his wife to have the last word in hats gowns and arguments. The wording hints at a humorous social observation.
An aged Arkanganger from Shagbork recalls travels as a near-miss lynching tale. He notes never leaving the county after 97 years, the sole big trip to Torpidville at eighty, and his belief that the wrong man was blamed for an incident.
Police suspected illegal activity in a building, conducted a raid on a suspicious photograph gallery. The scene prompted remarks about an arrested development as officers moved to seize contraband or illegal goods.
A fragmentary line notes a celebrity claiming aversion to grossness and questions whether she can endure a large or jarring sensation, with a remark about ross receipts implying skepticism about finances or records.
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