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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
8
A Baltimore News poem celebrates shirt waists in endless styles. It recalls long and short forms, buttoned and worn with various collars, colors, and finishes, noting wide variety from high collars to plaited designs and even garments ripped and remade.
Jesse Reaves, a 13 year old from Vicksburg Mississippi, traveled to St Louis for a new artificial leg and a fresh start. He has endured loss of his right leg from a childhood accident and supports himself by small jobs while seeking sponsors or a trade to fund a replacement. He says with two good legs he would face any challenge and aims to become a doctor or lawyer.
The readers are told Hall’s Catarrh Cure fully cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on the blood and mucous surfaces, strengthening the patient while destroying the disease’s foundation. It offers $100 for any case it cannot cure and asks readers to send for a pamphlet.
A New York Times correspondent praises the Statue of Liberty's beauty as nature lends bronze a harmonious tone. Davenport Iowa firm H F Brammer Mfg Co offers a free puzzle souvenir and touts its O K Washing Machine as a leading market product with trusted stamped quality.
Philadelphia Bulletin quotes a critic praising a vocalist while noting a difficult-to-understand delivery. The piece shifts to a广告 for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a teething remedy for children. It cites Engineering News listing seventeen American municipalities with cremation or reduction plants for sewage. Pennsylvania and Indiana lead in plant counts, with New York and Fonny Loans referenced concerning reductions.
Parson artists in Europe create pictures by burning a surface with a lighted taper to leave smoke on a porcelain plate. Blackened areas are removed with brushes or fingers to form the image, then a transparent varnish fixes the design. If a mistake is made, a candle can reapply the black. The process requires a level surface and careful cleaning to avoid grease or moisture.
A Maltese cat named Dainty has a gold tooth after a visit to the dentist. The six to seven month old pet tours the clinic, impressing staff and patients. Dainty performs tricks, jumps six feet ten inches, and often shows off her glittering incisor while demanding brushing. She eats from an egg cup and scratches when caretakers strain her food.
Dr. George A. Barton of Burn Mawr college, professor of Biblical Literature and Semitic languages, will travel to Palestine in June to head the School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. The institution is backed by 21 U S colleges, with a rotating annual director from member institutions. Barton receives a one year leave of absence to direct the program.
Remarkably extraordinary eight a musical instrument recently invented combines a violin with a trumpet made of aluminum as the sounding body. The diaphragm linked to the trumpet drives string vibrations. Miss Ethel Lyndh demonstrated the device in London to professionals and Royal Institute members who praised the instrument’s sounds.
A historical report condemns a French practice where mothers suspend infants from hooks by a rope loop for up to an hour. The cramped rooms cause discomfort and injuries, though the custom has waned in recent years. The piece notes this barbaric method persisted earlier but is less common now.
A Philadelphia Record item quotes a contractor claiming Italian laborers refuse to work in rain. He asserts they seek cover at the slightest shower, blaming water on their natural antipathy and predicting they will abandon trench work and return home.
A wide sweep of notes covers a portrait for Oregon's captain in the Vermont capitol, Swiss social experiments, French leave takers, a 825 pound physician in America, large European museum gifts, and other curiosities from politics to art.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat piece quotes a traveler detailing a "pathetic" industrial history in the region. He cites fugitives from American justice who left as youths due to minor errors, later becoming promoters and even wealthy figures, yet forever longing to return home and reconnect with old memories.
A writer notes unintentional neglect of children amid business life. Fathers leave early, return tired, missing time for conversation and play. Even the conscientious are prone to overlook loved ones, risking missed joys and long-term harm. The piece urges reform before it is too late.
Archbishops Ryan and Kenrick are recalled in a tale from the New York Times. As a young priest in St. Louis Ryan toured Kenrick’s modest residence, contrasting with Chicago’s grand archbishop’s house. The anecdote highlights humility and clerical hierarchy in the church.
The data show Prussia covers 34,804,865.8 hectares with forests and orchards accounting for 8,270,183.5 hectares or 23.7 percent. More than one-third of Hesse Nassau, Hohenzollern and Brandenburg is forested, while Schleswig Holstein has forests occupying less than one fifteenth of its area.
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