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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1925
Page
3
Prof P J Fysin of Berhampore Bengal says travelers must stop fearing bare skin to colonize the tropics. He argues clothing blocks natural skin regulation and hinders northerners from adapting to hot climates.
An advertised medicine claims rapid relief for croup cough colds and whooping cough. Marketed as safe for children it promises symptom relief within minutes and has been used in homes for 86 years with a 59 cent bottle price.
Billy Sanday, fully recovered from illness, says in Rochester that the world is a hustling place. He adds that if you are not up and dying you are down and done.
An advertisement extols Caticura Talcum Powder as a compact antiseptic fragranced face and baby powder. Describes it as economical and part of the Caticura Toilet Trio with Soap and Ointment, noting other perfumes as superfluous.
Dora explains to her aunt that a young man was around her waist in the drawing room the previous evening. The aunt recalls and Dora quips that young men are slippery and require no witnesses to avoid scandal.
The dwarf tree long associated with poet Robert Burns near a Mary riverbank shelter was blown down and snapped at the base during a recent storm. The uprooted relic is noted for its literary connection and historic sheltering branches.
The report notes a steady decline in diphtheria deaths between Wisconsin and 1924, predicting rates will be negligible by 1930. It adds a caution about interpreting sincerity from sighs, suggesting a tongue in cheek aside about measuring truth.
In the tense aftermath Lancaster survives a brutal confrontation as Joan shields him from Myers and Lawson. Mrs Fraser discovers the doctor’s perilful past and vows to stand by him while Joan contemplates a future apart from Avonmouth, leaving Lancaster ready to fight on.
A Virginia governor rejected a reprieve petition for George Ruloff, an American schoolteacher and aspiring universal language inventor executed in 1870 for a spree of robberies and murder. The plea argued his linguistic work would benefit humanity, but the ruling stood.
The article describes a shift from green to bright red cloth on billiard tables, noting green has long been standard to match natural rope stretches. It claims the change makes the scene unusual and the tables feel different as players prepare to use them.
A draft bill from the Iowa legislature would place primary road construction and maintenance under the highway commission while giving county boards and township trustees full control of secondary roads. Contracts under five thousand dollars would skip commission approval. The plan abolishes special assessments on primary roads, funds all primary road costs from the primary road fund, and aims to complete rapid improvements with a threefold fiscal plan totaling 8.83 million dollars for debt and construction, plus annual expenditures to 2.63 million and 270 thousand for counties’ secondary systems.
The Iowa General Assembly shows a swing to a 3 cent per gallon gasoline tax, backed by Governor Hammill's proposals and Bergman’s bill. House and Senate leaders plan to include the 3 cent levy, while other measures face debate such as compulsory Bible reading in schools and a new Catholic church announced for Harlan.
A fragmentary quote shows a threat about staying or running away from a mob. The speaker claims if he stays he will be hanged in person, while fleeing would provoke an effigy hanging. The text suggests a tense public confrontation and intimidation by authorities or a mob.
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