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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
1
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for children with fruity taste and clear dosing on the bottle. It claims to remove poisons from stomach, liver and bowels and emphasizes the name on packaging for authenticity. It also includes unrelated cartoon dialogue and a Garfield Tea note.
An ad extols Cascarets as a mild, safe tonic to regularize the liver and bowels, claiming they cleanse waste without griping or sickness. It notes twenty five million boxes sold annually and that they work while you sleep, costing little. It also ends with a quick joke about potato peelers in Chicago.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant herbal medicine for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims uniform quality in every bottle with a sworn purity statement. Sample bottles offered for ten cents by mail from Binghamton New York.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as easier than buying dyeing solutions for wool silk cotton and blends. It promises rich fadeless color on fabrics and urges consumers to consult the Diamond Dye Color Card. A brief catalog-like note ends with a joke about expensive rooms.
Adventurous tale centers on Curly Flandrau and Kidchum Mac two boys drawn into a horse stealing plot. They dispose of stolen stock in Baguerde Arizona, are pursued by a posse, Mac is killed, Curly is wounded and captured after a confrontation that also leaves former sheriff Luck Cullison shot.
Curly, wounded and prisoner, faces a looming lynching as Circle O Ranch men debate justice after a rustling. Kate Cullison denounces mob violence, urging restraint while Dec Brown treats the young rustler and Maloney defends the boy, shifting opinion among the bunkhouse crowd.
Curly's wooden face hides thoughts as a Frontiersman tests a man by his actions. Flandran battles sickness and refuses to quit while two Bar Double M riders identify him as the thief. Buck and Maloney discuss the suspect’s reputation and past misdeeds as the bunkhouse scene unfolds.
Mrs Frey of Le Mars Ta suffered six months with rheumatism, swelling limbs, stiff joints, back pain, and fatigue. After one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills she reports improvement and urges others to try the remedy, noting dangers of untreated kidney trouble and directing orders if not carried locally.
D. C. Morgan, a teacher in the business organization class at the Arsenal technical schools, defined management and gave examples of good managers. To show a poor manager he asked students what name to call a cook who used one cup of sugar and forty eight eggs in a cake, prompting the reply that she would be a rich woman.
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