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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
1
Tit Bits presents a brief verse narrative about a shy exchanges and a young man's resolve to marry. The dialogue revolves around passing glances, flowers, and a rejected proposal, ending with the woman declining and the would be groom left unresolved.
In Bailey Mansioux residents distrust the unstable elevator. Katherine, calm at home, takes the ride to the top floor where a second passenger, Westcott, boards with reckless confidence, embracing danger as the elevator proceeds.
Katherine and Westcott ride a stalled elevator between floors as a blue eyed youth calmly snacks on nuts. The power outage prolongs their confinement with no immediate danger, while Katherine frets over a recent quarrel and a ring Westcott keeps.
Katherine and Westcott, after chocolates and a courtship via an elevator, realize a ring and two bonds change their fate. The suspenseful scene ends with a wedding invitation and a promise of future favors as they descend to ground level.
A quoted essay argues piano music can repel flies by producing vibrations insects dislike. The writer notes sounds from piano strings and glass vibrations can excite insects, claiming continuous playing unsettles them and that fans create atmospheric disturbances. The piece concludes with a cautionary line about a man believing in his own superiority.
In aiming to improve a grade mutton flock focus on high quality rams. Expensive rams can pay for themselves through higher lamb yields, but prize winners are not always best for practical breeding. Choose vigorous, well-formed rams that suit the flock and avoid overfed or infertile show winners. Maintain a proven ram at the head of the flock, breed to consistent stock, and correct faults in ewes through balanced breeding.
Professor Shaw outlines three laws of breeding that guide selection. Emphasizing that like produces like, the importance of prepotency in sires, and the value of immediate, well bred ancestry over distant famed ancestors. Inbreeding is risky, but line breeding can improve a herd with expert care.
A Indianapolis News piece advises that keeping a workless farm horse over winter is costly. Profit comes from giving the horse tasks to justify full rations, or locating the horse where light work can continue. Use shelter, grain, roughage balance, and roots or oil meal bran to maintain digestion and health through the cold months.
A letter to two friends recalls a scene where a blind man is hailed by a street passer who proclaims she knows him though he is dark. Mrs Binns of Hentley recounts a daughter’s rebuke over loud talking about Miss Doane, noting the Doane family’s cleft palates and implying sympathy with the “poor things” while joking about shouting.
The scientific engineer wins again over natural ice by building a complete freight car refrigerating system. Each car holds a small refrigerating machine with a compressor and condenser housed under the car, powered via axle gearing. The system uses carbon dioxide gas and cooling pipes, with water supplied from engine hydrants or roof rainwater to absorb heat. Harper's Weekly notes large calendar giveaways. an offer of 20000 for Byron boomed as a contrast.
The article notes a surge in religious advertising as churches compete with theater and other advertisers. It recalls Billy Sunday campaigns, street posters, and hotel stickers, then shifts to Denver's YMCA fund drive using campaign style methods, with districts, hourly reports, and a clock dial tally. Sunday schools adopt new cheers, amplifying the push.
Chicago Kanth is tried for the murder of Mrs. Hollister and Richard Gimes Leas at 488 Belden Avenue. Defense objects to evidence of a confession, claiming coercion. Franklin Hollister testifies he last saw his wife alive June 12, and identifies her body the next day.
President Corey of United States Steel Corporation urged coal operators to grant an advance to miners to avert a strike, stating the steel trust would not permit shutdowns for a day due to coal shortages. George J. Gould warned operators to prevent a strike at all hazards, as a Pittsburg meeting of miners’ operators convened.
From Far and Near reports the Central California Raisin Growers Association is disbanded at Fresno. Five damaged the Equitable Life Assurance Society building in Memphis to the extent of 200000 dollars. President Roosevelt may address the Travelers' Protective Association national convention in Buffalo next June on The American Duna mer. Frederick W. Boward, 70, a former assistant Secretary of State under Garfield, was knocked down and injured by a car in New York. President Watts of the Toledo school board alleges a bribery attempt by agents of public-works interests.
Amelia Hall of Norwich Connecticut details relief from long illness after trying Dr Williams Pink Pills. She suffered weak strength, breath difficulties, neuralgic and rheumatic pain, dyspepsia and female weakness. After tonic failure, pills restored strength, flesh, and sleep. The advertisement invites readers to request the booklet from Schenectady, New York.
Canes Wealth in Forcate notes that ten travelers cannot grasp Russia's timber wealth. The term Wooden Russia refers to Europe’s forests covering about 6,000,000 acres, 36 percent of the country. Wooden houses dominate beyond cities and wood fuels most. The Tulga forest belt in Siberia runs 4,000 miles from the Urals to the Prelile, often 500 miles wide, a vast crown possession of the czar.
An old friend rebukes a politician for living a life of ease in the capital. Huskins retorts that his daily attire and duties are martyrdom, insisting the grind of city life is constant and exacting.
Captain John L. Ely of Company B Seventeenth Ohio, living at 500 East 2d street Newton Wisconsin, recalls kidney illness from Civil War days. He credits Deans Kidney Pills, used since 1901, with curing his chronic condition and aiding mobility. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Poster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In a playful exchange a girl named Kitty asks her father to bring candy on his way home. She spells out the word to keep others from hearing, prompting a gentle parental response and a lesson in discretion.
Public notices claim deafness from inflamed Eustachian tubes can only be cured by constitutional remedies. Catarrh is blamed for nine of ten cases. Claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures deafness and offers $1000 for any uncured case. Also advertises Allen's Foot-Ease and a new horse disease epizootic lymphangitic arriving from India via South Africa.
Worth knowing that Allcock's are the original genuine porous plasters and that all other claimed porous plasters are imitations. The total length of the railways of the world is stated to be 454,000 miles.
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