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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
4
A gust tugs a woman's hat from her head on Fourth Avenue near a construction shadowed skyscraper. Men avert and hurry on as several women chase the hat, two grabbing at it while a rescuer finally returns it and walks away. Observers wonder if courtesy or cowardice ruled. New York Sun.
A Fifth Avenue newcomer confronts a store clerk over a fur skunk tail collar. She insists the tails are real and denounces the clerk as fake, boasting about hunting skunks in Iowa and accusing the clerk of ignorance as she storms out.
A list of upcoming conventions and meetings with dates and locations from July to August and September, including Denver Boston Portland Seattle San Francisco and Salt Lake City, with references to boards such as Fraternal Orders Educational Associations and various lodges. The notice invites inquiries to G. Park Inc G. Farmer and regional railway offices for full details.
A veteran lumberman recalls a northwest camp mishap where a commis sary, short on grain, fed poultry with cornmeal dough mixed with sawdust in rising ratios. Hens laid, and a brood hatched eleven woodpeckers and one chick with a wooden leg after twenty one days, in a tale cited from the New York Press.
A Russian army kitchen wagon is described as a large iron boiler on a wagon axle with a chimney. The boiler houses an iron fireplace and a double hinged lid. Rations are cooked on the move and a hot meal is ready upon halt, with meat and vegetables boiled for dinner.
A Wotan reporter attends a Buffalo gathering of women of the presa in a country town. Sent to obtain an obituary from a widow whose husband hanged himself in an attic. A misstep on weather remarks leads to a faux pas as the widow replies and the reporter struggles to steer clear of banking topics.
O H Talmadge of the West Union Gazette plans a Fayette County wall map at 14 inches to the mile with township colors, roads, railroads, streams, churches, schools and farms with owners names. Earlier maps sold for 10 and 5 dollars. the new map will be more accurate and offered at a lower price. For details contact C H Talmadge West Union Iowa.
The Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway announces round trip rates for Colorado travel during the sunt meet. Tickets are limited to October. Readers are advised to contact any company ticket agent and write to Mt. Inc.G for an early booklet titled Colorado Sky and Prairie First.
The Lost Forty is an unfarmable land strip along the Mackinaw River in Tazewell County Minnesota. It features steep, rugged ravines, dense fox and wolf presence, and turkeys. for years it has been mortgaged and passed around with dubious titles as no owner is known.
The article comments on a 10,000,000 franc gift to Rouen intended to fund annual prizes for marriages to raise racial stature. It argues giants are often less useful and that heredity laws misfire, presenting the plan as folly and a flawed philanthropic motive.
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