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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1894
Page
1
A column of eclectic bits references German industrialists Krupp and Rothschild, British regattas led by American ships, and Lord Wolseley as a field marshal. It notes Paraguay under military rule, Indiana reporter Joan L. Griffiths as a famed orator, a joke about Senator Peffer, the Winthrop house in Massachusetts being renovated, and Belva Lockwood’s oath moment with Judge Drake.
Belgian police pursue Baron von Ungers Sternberg charged with manufacturing bombs for the attempt to murder Dr. Benson. The 27 year old anarchist, tall and heavy, hails from a wealthy Russian family that has abandoned him due to his political ideas. A Sioux City man confined after a condemned building was damaged sues the city for 10000 dollars amid sympathy for his illness. In Chicago, the husband of Zella Nicolaus seeks evidence for a divorce suit, noting her alleged high roller past in the Windy City. South Carolina names its new Rock Hill normal and industrial college after Robert Winthrop, whose eighty fifth birthday stone lay with his written reply to be present.
James W. Hilsworth, famed for costly year by year additions to his collections, recently acquired an 1804 dollar with an unusual backstory. The coin was given to a black man by his dying father who marked his freedom year, and the man held the piece for forty years before selling it to Mr. Drie tus.
For years scholars protest the Egyptian government housing of the government collection of antiquities in Ghitch's old wooden museum. The collection, the finest reliefs found in Egypt, faces constant fire risk. The council of ministers recently agreed to allocate seven hundred fifty thousand dollars for a new building.
A rainy ferry morning exposes a man torn between a shabby young singer and his meticulous social prospects. He helps her amid cruelty from a bully, faces disapproval from his would be father in law, loses his job, and later learns the singer has wed his rival. The tale closes with the narrator aged and wary, forever haunted by that voyage.
The Observer mixes advertisements with news making it hard to separate reading matter. Editor imitates Elliott F Shepard by placing a Siamese sacred text under the date line. Yearly price is 24 dollars or one salung per copy, with a salung worth 16 cents.
Young Mr Leonard, Boston heir to the Leonard family, visits a Chinatown store where he is drawn into a flirtation with a Chinese girl. A gang of six Chinamen threaten him for money, and he flees to his hotel shaken. The next day his mother attends a church service where Ah Wok the highbinder confessor recounts his conversion and introduces the girl as Cristian gel, deeply unsettling Leonard.
An arrested vagrant questions the court quotes about marriage and divorce. He insists he was married, cites a divorce, and claims his wife remarried while he did not, prompting drama as the judge interjects. The exchange highlights a muddled account of marital status.
Fragmentary passage mentions a dog guarding a person and a child named Hero, with dialogue about hearing thoughts and devotion. Also references metric lines about heights, a spoonful of something in wine? and a claim about a headache remedy. The text reads like a collage of quotes and clipped observations from a Vogue caption.
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