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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1902
Page
3
A compact verse piece extols a traditional ideal of a domestic, home rooted girl who can cook without props sew and darn, contrasted with glamorous maidens. It honors modest, homely virtue over social polish and palace life. The voice celebrates the girl you imagine in dreams as plain yet sweet.
Charles Bravard, modeled after Jean Valjean, grows from runaway child to convict in Paris. A priest’s Toulon sermon awakens reform, while a loyal friend Jean Marchand and landlady's daughter Henrietta Salou test his past as a diamond ring exposes deceit.
Yan, a thief, contemplates punishment as Charles urges him to confess. In a plan Ideated to spare Yan, Charles reveals his own past crimes and accepts lifelong exile in Cayenne. Jean and Henriette witness the tense moment before gendarmes arrive. Charles Brayurs remains in Cayenne for life.
Gus Thompson tells of three days and nights of marching with a small sled of provisions, losing his trail, lightening loads, and nearly starving and freezing. He recalls a delirious, sleepless ordeal, surviving on frozen pancakes and mental stunts until he reached camp exhausted and unconscious for a day.
Turkish and other Oriental rugs lose value and popularity due to inferior manufactured wools. American capital and Germantown yarns have invaded the market, spoiling the original pastoral product. The Navajo and Mojave blankets face the same issue in our country.
An old town paper records Uncle Bill and the editor trading tall tales about a cyclone. They joke about damage, drugstores, and a drunken cyclone, recalling past plains travels and a revival tone to weather lore. The piece mixes humor with local color and rough frontier wisdom.
In Gazaland the common greeting is a respectful ride on a cow, a scene shown by four ladies on horseback. Mrs. W. I. Thompson, wife of Dr. Thompson, medical missionary in Melsetter, is pictured amid American mission life. The Thompsons’ mission lands total 24,000 acres, granted by Cecil Rhodes, with many curios and photographs of African life shared.
England introduces a new street car rail design shaped like an upside down trough with wheels passing over a low mood. The trough sits on a foundation and the street is raised to meet its sides. Rails connect differently yet laid in the ordinary way. Experts claim 20 year durability and no damage to streets, with low cost given the advantages.
A simple loop puzzle features a large flexible piece with two parallel vertical slits creating a central strip. Two smaller stiffened parts interact with the loop to form the overall mechanism.
description details a mechanical puzzle where a hole is pierced under a flexible strip, a looped string passes from front to rear through the hole and around the strip, with two small stiffened parts fastened to each end. It notes deft manipulation is required and that the looped string is central, a well known will of the wisp in tricks.
A Yonkers Statesman item notes a character called the mean man praising Gur Tang doctors who charge only 2 cents for a consultation and 4 cents for a vial. The doctor retorts that if prices stay that low, the supply would outpace him.
Petty officers of the Lancaster present Rear Admiral Joseph Coghlan United States Navy with a handsome hag and an engrossed card. The note celebrates his attainment of flag rank and bears signatures of officers who served with him aboard the United States steamship Raleigh including B H Bryan Patrick Murphy Hadwin Adamson Willem B Johnson James G Duncan Connolly.
A German silver service presented to Kaiser Wilhelm and Princess August Victoria on their 1881 wedding is highlighted among the imperial silver treasures. The set of 257 pieces valued at 420,000 marks sparked long dynasty collecting, with ancestral pieces valued at 5,000,000 marks.
A description explains a simple stage illusion to thread multiple threads through a needle eye. A long eyeed needle, six feet of thread, and a yard apart untwisting create two loops. The host can then pull threads through the eye of the needle, carrying other threads with them, until eight to ten threads pass through.
A patchwork of short items notes forest wardens in California using telephone lines for fire alerts, Canadian cheese factories producing vast annual output, British stamps in Japan, a Paris lawsuit over newspaper clippings, a Berlin superstition case, Paschal Grousset’s death and career, and the Tinos National Guard encampment strain and cost with a high civilian payroll.
Mr Belcher, the British consul at Belrs, reports a sustained decline in game across the district. He cites fear that redbuck eland rhinoceros hippopotamus and elephant may become extinct unless natives and unscrupulous white hunters curb their activities. Chiringoma, under Chief Lubuko, is seeing a drastic loss of species, making it possible to hunt for days without finding any of the ten named animals.
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