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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1900
Page
4
Dr Jacquet reports alarming rise in intoxicating drink consumption among Paris residents. Hospital data show 48 percent of treated cases linked to stimulants. Working men, women, and small trades like grocers and coal merchants fuel the trend with easy access and advertisements.
In a Crimea era note a surgeon general reports gruesome scenes of dead soldiers discovered after battles. A Russian officer lay dead on a gabion with a rifle wound. another soldier held a shell fragment and a British trooper in Balaklava appears headless in memory. A Transvaal finding shows a dead foe at a parapet. A war artist recalls a Russian and a Turk dying with fixed bayonets, both impaled in the breast.
Miss Caroline Rapp of Thomaston Connecticut died at New Haven hospital after ten years in an incurable ward. Doctors described a puzzling case kept alive by stimulants and artifical food since a seasick episode during a transatlantic trip a decade ago. Autopsy was refused by relatives despite physician appeals.
Four exquisite Gobelins tapestries of the last century have been acquired by Dr. Henri de Rothachila and brought back to France. The pieces carry historic interest as gifts from Louis Quinze to the Marquia De Grimaldi, the Spanish prime minister of that era, enhancing a prominent collection's prestige.
The Russian Orthodox Church donor, the Czar, provides 20 000 rubles about 10 000 dollars to erect an Orthodox church in Chicago at Leavitt and Haddon streets. Bishop Tyso of the Orthodox Russian church oversees the expenditure with headquarters in San Francisco.
Notes and Quorles recount the fading craft of cutting quills as steel pens rose in use. A master showpiece used swan designs on pages, but quills dwindled to relics within a generation. The piece laments the shift from pen to nib as language shifts from pen to nib in daily usage.
The Guayaki, shy forest dwellers noted by the Geographical Journal, are described as dark skinned and naked, fleeing upon sight. A Kunyaki child captured with a boleadoras incident is cited, along with limited linguistic data. They reportedly use stone axes to obtain honey and subsist on honey and hunted game, with tension against settlers due to cattle depredations.
An Irish red setter at Phoenix Park in Dublin is shown caring for three lion cubs born on October 12. The cubs, now over nine weeks old, were fed with a baby's bottle after birth because their mother Honess rejected them, then the setter adopted and cared for the trio after a period of fostering.
August Vincent saved 125 in mixed denominations and hid it in a box inside a heating stove to protect it. A New Year’s fire started by Mrs. Vincent burned the money. he extinguished the blaze, but the bills were badly burned and will be sent to the treasury for redemption. Vincent, an employee of the Indly Central railroad, lives at 954 Lincoln Street.
Khaki used for South African troop uniforms is produced in Ireland by a Limerick firm. The company has recently opened a large Dublin factory, employing many girls to soak khaki uniforms.
A garbled set of aphorisms and social jests on human nature and society. Many quotes wander through labor, patience, pride, diplomacy, and self regard, with snippets implying a late 19th or early 20th century tone about work, duty, expectation, and misquotation.
The Rev. Dr. John Watson is slated as the next moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in England. The Boston Ministers Union plans congressional action to lower postal rates on library books for home study. Efforts to raise 1 million dollars to advance a theological university from Union Theological Seminary, New York, have begun. The Durham deanery, the wealthiest in the Church of England, yields about 16 000 pounds yearly plus a fine residence. Thanksgiving across New England brought joy as mill owners’ wage gains spread. The Rev. Dr. William Nixon, father of the Free Church of Scotland, ordained in 1831, is noted as the oldest surviving Presbyterian clergyman in Britain. Norman Macleod is named to be the next moderator of the Church of Scotland, the third Macleod in that role and fifth family member to hold it, born at Morven Manse.
The YMCA reports nearly a million real estate gains and 344 association buildings. A Bristol Bible class at Old Market chapel has existed 19 years with about 10,000 attendees and 800 members. New religious population estimates place Christianity at 477 million, Confucianism 266 million, Hinduism 180 million, Islam 176 million, Buddhism 148 million, Shinto 14 million, Polytheism 117 million, Judaism 7 million. Waldensian congregations expelled from Italy in 1699 now number ten in Württemberg, totaling around 4,000, marking their 200th settlement anniversary.
Bizarre notes on hair care claim tight pinning harms circulation and may curb baldness. Albuquerque reports the most smolting days of any American town. Turner Kansas with 400 residents sent three volunteers who all died of disease. Sixty mining companies in Johannesburg suspended operations due to war, leaving many families destitute.
A regional ad-style listing touts Shiloh's Vitalizer Bost remedies and Butler brands for digestion coughs and dyspepsia. It promotes One Minute Cough Cure Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and Chamberlain's Pain Balm with bold claims of immediate relief and guaranteed satisfaction, all sold by W. H. Finke and Stoehr's Pharmacy with prices and guarantees.
The ad fragment touts Shilohs Cure For gale, Kings New Life Pills, Chamberlains cough remedy, Bucklen's Arnica Salve, Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarehoea remedy, and Dy King's New Discovery. It notes cures for coughs, skin eruptions, lung troubles, and blood purification claims with druggist prices and testimonial snippets.
The Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway offers reduced fares to numerous 64 in summer events. Highlights include Charleyton annual meeting of the National Educational Association, Cincinnati Baptist Young People’s Union, Chicago National Encampment, Dayton Knights of Pythias biennial conclave, St Paul Republican League meeting, plus Colorado excursions. Round trips to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo and East Lake City at single fare plus $2, return by Oct 8. Also very low rates to Sioux Falls for the OuW meeting in June. Contact a BCRN agent for tickets rates and limits.
A fragment urges readers planning a trip to Paris to obtain reliable information. It promises helpful service and guidance through all steps from New York, referencing several steamship lines and travel offices, but the text is garbled and incomplete.
A directory listing shows HON G N Haugen of Northwood as representative in congress and L FELLOWS of Alamakes as judge. It also names State Senator HON J H Trewin of Lansing, town officials L B Mattoon and L Ainsworth, and others including trustees, school officers, and church pastors with service times and locations.
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