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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
4
Elgin residents travel to Cedar Rapids Columbia Junction and Muscatine for study visits funerals and church events. Local kin gather for family occasions while others head to Oklahoma Iowa and Minnesota for vacations and business.
For sale at a very low price is one excellent cow and many full blood Plymouth Rock chickens. Also all household articles of first quality goods. Items available around May 1st. Contact Gunnaronson at ALR Rowland above near the depot for particulars and to see articles and stock.
The moors of Yorkshire and cotlands buzz with grouse shooting as season opens. Lord Binning sustained a leg wound from a self-inflicted shot while waiting for aid, quipping that he came to kill grouse but had bagged a calf.
Boonlak Silver and Léawing Cute note the draining of Spanish silver from Cuba as funds leave the island. Bankers predict within two years no silver in circulation if current outgo continues, with Havanas marked as already priced out.
The Hundred Year club members discuss prospects of living to 100 and beyond. Notable participants include Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Theodore Sutro, and Dr. Carleton Simmons. Ireland, Germany, and Serbia show varying numbers of centenarians, while China grants honors to those 85 plus. The group seeks natural strength and mental steadiness over time.
Philadelphia school system abolishes partial payments and compound interest problems in arithmetic. The move, praised by the city’s head, spares students years of struggle with faulty calculations and bagatelle-like errors that could have harmed their confidence and temper. The Baltimore News notes the change prevents future children from facing unnecessary numeric difficulties.
Fifteen German warships are under construction in private and government yards at Kiel Dantzig and Wilhelmshaven. Eight battleships and two first-class cruisers are included, with additional torpedo boats destroyers and lengthy reconstruction of Siegfried class ships. The government seeks further credits beyond last year's totals.
A new idea uses windmills to pump water into a high reservoir to drive a dynamo. The plan would provide a steady water supply to run the turbine and generate electricity, despite windmills being unreliable for direct dynamo operation.
Fragmentary OCR describes a private railway station at Gosport linked to a pontoon and royal yacht, used when the Queen or royal family members embark for Osborne. The text mentions a long semicircular platform and connections to the royal yacht, with incomplete names and details.
An Englishman recalls abroad how English cricket golf and lawn tennis clubs foster unity yet offend locals. A French observer reports a golf incident where a citizen of France reacted to foreign balls approaching him, prompting a lengthy calming scene and cultural friction.
A historical note argues rice is not the Chinese lower class staple but pork is cheaper. It describes the pig as a household pet in Canton households, its breeding value, and even notes cats and mice as delicacies in rare fare. The piece includes a humorous aside about a fictitious dish called honey and squeak.
Scottish banks warn that a Glasgow issue of five hundred thousand pounds in notes breaks a long standing practice since 1845. They fear risk to liquidity and a upset of the banking system, noting the gold reserve would be only a quarter million and that public confidence may waver in money times.
Monkeys swarm along the banks of the Jumma canal near Delphi. Overcrowding leads to illness and disease among them. When a monkey falls sick, larger ones target it, pushing it into the canal. If it survives, it is repeatedly tossed into the water until it drowns or separates from the group.
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