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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
8
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer mocks clergy prudence. It recalls Rev Dr Bingley deemed not mentally strong after refusing to wed a divorced couple, costing him a $200 fee. The note questions his judgment and highlights contentious views.
A statistician asserts the typewriter's invention created 500,000 jobs but omits the number of weak stomach cases it caused. The ad urges sedentary workers to use LHostetter's Stomach Bitters to ease the strain of confinement.
A terse Detroit Journal excerpt presents a wan schoolgirl paring pencils and pickles for a frugal luncheon. The piece centers on a fierce internal debate about practical calisthenics versus immediate rewards, with characters Bhie and Vs questioning trends and endurance.
A selection of brief items includes a Chicago showman’s piano playing elephant stunt ending when the animal supposedly recognizes its dead mother’s teeth in the piano keys. Also advertised are a new Shooting and Fishing Along the Tine of the Great Northern Railway guide, Fourth of July travel rates, and a comic exchange about whist at a mileage club.
Uncle Jerry returns from a fashionable watering place and is quizzed about the tipping nuisance. He repeats the phrase and notes a persistent annoyance, reflecting on social behavior. The snippet hints at a broader satire from the Chicago Tribune about tipping culture.
A collection of fragmented quotes and jokes from an Indiana audience, including sly digs on slang usage, remarks attributed to a professor and readers, and brief client style lines about scams and sports. The reading offers a collage of humor and social commentary from the period.
The piece covers Chicago health action against formalin in milk, debates over milk standards and process butter prosecutions, and the Great Bill proposal taxing oleomargarine. It also surveys North Carolina poultry trials, horse use amid transport shifts, and practical advice on hen housing and chick-raising.
Discussion on exercise for hens and how activity affects egg production. Emphasizes that health and environment, including feed, range, and breed, determine whether exercise is necessary. Notes many feeding rations can be crafted to suit different fowls and circumstances.
A quoted Washington Stir piece presents a dubious view of Boers as agricultural, dramatized through two men discussing international politics and farmers. The dialogue hints at skepticism toward “sellers’ chancey” and uses slang phrasing to convey public sentiment.
A clipped patent notice lists inventors from Minnesota including Teroy Buffington of Minneapolis automobiles and Oliver Crosby of St Paul with a box, plus Carl Kurtowtz Pelan Whiffletree attachment and Silas Warrick Tipstone band cutter and feeder for threshing machines. Griggs Cooper & Co. of St Paul and Merwin Lothrop Johnson are also named in the extended filing.
In a Washington Star excerpt a promoter boasts of a paying claim in a mining region. He says T claimed a marvel of richness and that selling stock at five dollars apiece has yielded abundant profit. He notes printing all stock certificates they can.
An illustrated prospectus touts Gold Medal Prize Treatise and The Science of Life with 865 pages, promising health, vigor and happiness, priced at $1 by mail from The Pea body Medical Institute in Boston. Also promotes Allen's Foot Ease powder for footwear ailments and a humorous cartoon exchange about wages and patent ideas.
An advertisement promises a weekly wage and details about a Poultry Compound and Licy Killer, with an address in Des Moines Iowa. Snippets from New York Evening World and Chicago Journal joke strips appear, including a line about a child’s loyalties and a quip on a devil.
Readers are urged to peruse the advertisements for entertaining stories and excellent bargains. Local merchants promote ready products and services, inviting careful attention to their offers and timely purchases.
A fragmented column notes open-air amusements in Philadelphia and urges caution amid health concerns. It mentions the American Girl character, a Blase Girl, and hints at a discussion of adolescence and appearances. The message references scalp diseases and a product claim for Coke Dandruff Cure as a treatment.
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