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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1914
Page
6
Iowa farmers should center the farmstead, place pastures near barns, and locate buildings on elevated ground with good drainage. A southwest slope, timber windbreaks, visible barn doors from the house, and proximity of shop near the house are advised, with water supply away from winds.
An Iowa man fed 960 pound beef calves from skim milk starting at birth. After two to three days of cow suckling the calves received fresh whole milk twice daily for a week and then twice daily for two more weeks. At three weeks whole milk was gradually replaced by warm separated milk. By one month old they drank 4 to 6 quarts of skim milk twice daily plus a flaxseed jelly, with oats and later added grain as the calves learned to eat.
A historical agricultural piece outlines calf feeding schedules from birth to one year, detailing grain intake, milk use, and eventual full feed. It compares alfalfa hay value to other feeds and notes pasture changes. It also discusses potato seed scab treatment methods and cautions on corrosive sublimate and formalin solutions.
A visitor toured a lid lifting athletic club where the liquid gymnastic department drew attention. A cheap gymnasium showed disuse with dust on the Indian chuba and cobwebs on the dumbbells. The reply said members use it only during fights.
Mrs. A. K. Wooden of Smithville Indiana reports a one year old girl developed watery blisters and a fiery red, cracked rash on the face. After trying remedies, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment were used thrice daily, curing itching and burning in two days and full recovery in two weeks with no relapse eight months later. Cuticura sold worldwide.
A historical note recalls how some bygone housewives valued ugliness in staff. Eliza Coke, about to wed, asked her mother-in-law to choose the housemaid by conduct and principles rather than beauty, joking that a squinting butler and a terrible horsemaid might still produce a model household.
A dialogue captures a young woman from boarding school identifying the family chickens as Plymouth Rocks while noting their father keeps no incubators. The two speakers joke about poultry and breeding in a Dallas News excerpt.
A fragmented note discusses a doctor unable to do more for a persistent cough and mentions Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops. The text questions the efficacy of conventional remedies and hints at skepticism toward simple proverbs as clinical truth.
A column of humorous Ulster sayings mocks marriage fees and rural life. An Ulster marquis endears tenantry with a pun about iron plows lasting forever. A funeral joke notes an untrained hand and a grave, while the Alderman grumbles over marriage costs and a bridegroom asks for a tip.
Careful reader notice urging parents to examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature, touting a centuries long safety claim and noting children cry for Fletcher's Castoria, reflecting persistent branding in pharmacy notices.
A cynical old bachelor is lured by a fake pink scented note to a park and then to a club where friends mock him. George Ade comments on the bachelor’s stinginess for not laughing at a joke that insults him.
A witty exchange between a young mother and a bachelor friend about a crying baby and the idea that a breakup can be a kindness in disguise. The dialogue contrasts humorous misinterpretations with a practical view of feelings and growth.
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