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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1914
Page
8
A dense list of farming maxims covering feeding, housing, cleanliness, and management for dairy cattle, poultry, swine, and sheep. Emphasizes nutrition quality, bone meal and oyster shells, dust baths, sanitation, and orderly housing. Notes on egg production, breed selection, and the economic value of proper care, with warnings about overfeeding and disease.
Iowa Agriculture Experiment Station tests show hogs using a self feeder with tankage and corn reach 1.46 pounds daily gain, costing about 6.04 dollars per hundredweight versus 5.30 with hand feeding. A homemade self feeder plan by Prof. J. B. Davidson is provided, requiring little lumber and basic hardware.
Iowa State College entomologists say rotating corn with other crops can raise yields by up to ten bushels per acre. The corn root worm damages grow yearly when corn remains in the same field. Larvae hatch next June and feed on roots. alternate crops starve them and allow next-year corn to grow pest-free.
An electric interurban train near Nice France derailed while cresting a steep curve at Tar elrol viaduct. The motor car swerved into the parapet collapsing the structure as passenger coaches plunged 40 feet into a ravine. Nineteen soldiers died in the accident.
A wild buck deer on Mayor C H Osborn's farm near Hastings bonded with an Indian pony named Bud. After a lengthy struggle, authorities increased a nine foot barnyard fence to eleven feet. the deer leaped the barrier and fought back. Henry Mead and his son were kicked during the capture but the animal was finally overpowered.
New York actress Norma Phillips visited Andrew Carnegie at his Fifth Avenue home to pose for a movie audience. Though ill and preparing to sail to Europe, Carnegie appeared in street clothes after Mrs Phillips kept up a chatter while a camera clicked.
Miss Alice Webb, nineteen, with her mother’s written permission, slipped away from a disapproving stepfather and wed William R. Fleming, a fifty four year old widower, in Harrisonburg at the courthouse clerk’s office. They waited on the courthouse steps after breakfast for the clerk to arrive.
Edwin Thompson sought a divorce after his wife Mrs. Thompson telegraphed an intent to take carbolic acid and then did not follow through. Judge Morgan ruled the case showed equality in circumstances.
A sentence was suspended for Harry Tankford, twenty five, described as a three foot dwarf, after arraignment on intoxication charges. He claimed his wife would whip him, prompting the case in New York.
A string of quirky lines and mock advertisements mention remedies and beverages. It includes a jab at convention after hours with canned music, a claim of Bromo Quinine products, and a hunter returning home alive, all in fragmentary form.
An odd classified ad in Omaha promotes popcorn samples and a price quote to Geo A Joslyn. The Haunted Man chapter unfolds with a ringing in the ears as a man wakes, fears his fate, and rushes to catch the 7 10 train, framing a Puck magazine humor tone.
Bolger Mosser and Willaman of 29 South La Salle Street Chicago report active purchase of municipal bonds issued by cities counties towns school districts and drainage districts in Nickel and adjoining states for all public works. Bonds for schools water works roads and farm drainage are included. Readers are urged to present bond holdings to officials who may sell them.
A traveling drummer boasts of his employer's size to a customer. He claims an inventory revealed three cashiers and four bookkeepers missing, illustrating the firm's supposed vastness.
A South Side girl, eight, asks her mother what boys become after death. The mother explains angels are people who die good. The child wonders if boys could be angels, suggesting they might be brownies or elves instead. Kansas City Star reports this humorous exchange.
A middle aged country resident travels to the city and watches a schoolgirl perform gymnastics for entertainment. He asks a bystander if she has fits, learning the display is simply gymnastics. He expresses surprise at the idea and asks how long she has been doing it.
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