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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
3
The advertisement extols Peter son ointment as a mighty cure for eczema itching of the scalp pimples acne rough skin ulcers and other blemishes. It asserts decades of praise and asks readers to trust broad minded doctors in endorsing its supreme efficiency.
Senator Wadsworth of New York told a Washington audience that the United States will not recognize Russia until the American people demand it. A speaker warned of famine in Russia and Bolshevik suffering, while a heckler quipped about who will supply their deserts.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments claiming sworn testimony and customer success. It promotes samples via parcel post from Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York and notes affordable large and medium bottles at drug stores.
In New York at a dinner Magistrate Jean Norris says profiteers are not easily stopped. He notes their cunning or ignorance can shield them as scarcity and demand shape actions. A baffling anecdote about a profiteer offering to buy supplies with coats of uniforms illustrates the tension.
The article compares ancient and regional distance units, noting the mile common across decades and regions while the kilometer gains prominence in Europe. It mentions 170 yard tiles, 1,020 yeards, and European distances from 1,100 to over 12,000 yards, concluding with the biometer at 4,240.8 feet as a nearby reference.
English managers report a shortage of good looking chorus girls with one noting more attractive workers are found in shops than among applicants for stage positions. The comment highlights a perceived decline in eligible performers for musical productions.
A snippet from Edna Ferber and characters Selina Dirk Paula and Eugene explore architectural ideals and family ambitions in north Chicago. Dirk studies architecture at Cornell while family plans a practical but stylish home with sleeping porches. Tensions rise over money and social expectations as relationships and futures unfold amid farm life and urban ambition.
The piece describes producing charcoal by partially burning wood in mound shaped heaps. Wood is cut to uniform lengths, piled in a mound, covered with earth leaving a snail opening, then fired for slow combustion until it becomes charcoal, a lighter, nearly dead block colored material.
The Detroit News notes Alaska uses many transport modes from railcars and boats to airplanes and sleds. It highlights the invented dog car as an Arctic innovation where a lone miner hauls a hand car with his dog team toward a mining camp along abandoned railroad tracks.
An obituary like note recalls Dr Verneat who died after a fall from his horse at 104 while promoting a health remedy he titled Essence of Life. The firm Zaegel & Co. in Sheboygan advertised a trial box of his herbal pill form, claiming digestion aid and vitality restoration for pimples, impure blood, headaches, nervousness, poor appetite, and sleeplessness.
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