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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1898
Page
6
An old patient testimonial from the World's Fair era extols Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for a severe cough a man contracted there. The narrative claims rapid relief and a complete cure after trying various doctors and remedies, praising the product and offering a money reward for Catarrh cures Hall's Catarrh Cure is also promoted with endorsements from several Toledo pharmacists.
A fragmentary open letter cites Dr Samuel Pitcher claiming Castoria origin and signature on wrappers. Includes admonitions about authenticity, warning against misuse of the name by others. Also mentions Cascatets Candy Cathartic and Hostetters Bitters, with a stray newspaper snippet about a boy and a man in a Detroit free Press anecdote.
The piece touts high crop yields with Salzer's corn and oats, claiming 262 bushels per acre and 26,290 bushels on 100 acres at 30¢ a bushel, plus a $400 gold prize for best name for the prodigy. It also promotes seed potatoes, seed catalog requests, and various patent remedies with flashy claims and testimonials.
Special-A reports a severe snow storm across the northern cattle range with a foot of snow and freezing cold. Yankton notes the first thunder storm of the year with heavy rain and hail. Watertown records a gale and the season’s first heavy rainfall beginning at 6 o'clock.
A cooperative commonwealth founded by Eugene V. Debs has located a colony a few miles west of Helfant in Skagit county. Eighty members arrived, with families still in the East. The group, from Chicago St. Louis Maine Michigan and Washington D C, will establish a town surrounded by small farms and select locations for settlement.
A blaze at the Deadwood Nolaware smelter destroyed the smelting buildings trestle and works of the Wichorn and Burlington railroads plus five freight cars. The chemical rooms, offices, and agony chamber were wrecked. Loss estimated at 280000 with 100000 insured, about one hundred workers left unemployed.
A six foot steel span being placed on the Chicago & North Western railroad bridge across the Mississippi at Winona Minnesota buckled the timber cribbing as it shifted two feet to let a train pass. All six men were shaken and bruised, with no fatalities reported.
In Marshalltown Iowa Dr Hiram Landis Getz a famed school director and educator was defeated for re election to the school board by David Lennox a laboring man by 1204 to 406 The contest described as one of the bitterest in the district local readers note the political shift and public debate over schooling priorities
Flooding along the Grand River in Grand Rapids, Michigan shut down nearly all riverbank factories. The water level tops five-year highs, keeping many plants inaccessible by two blocks. Messages from upriver indicate the rise will continue for about ten hours longer.
Five sweeps the business portion of Laurens Iowa and Laurence Iowa. Special fire here destroyed nearly the entire west side of the business street. The blaze started in Young Grens grocery store and burned nine business buildings. A double death by their own action in Nashville Tennessee. Mrs J S Driscoll found dead in her room. her husband dying in a chair near her. Discovered by a palace man who received a note from Driscoll asking him to call.
Manitoba legislature has opened and the throne speech makes no mention of the long discussed railway to Lake Superior. The session is described as short and unimportant. The dominion government promised to turn over 8,000,000 acres of swamp lands to be drained and made arable.
Marinette Wisconsin endures a twelve hour blizzard with a foot of snow. Levi Moberg, a young epileptic man, is missing and believed buried in the snow after leaving his outskirts home during the storm.
Black River Falls Wisconsin reports a special April 30 event with St Roddy White Buffalo departing for the coast to secure Sioux war bonnets and related paraphernalia for coronation services. He plans visits to Rose Run and Standing Rock agencies to gather items for the ceremony marking Bink Hawk’s fortieth accession anniversary.
J. B. Gordon of Georgia, who spoke on the Last Days of the Confederacy in Owosso Michigan, received a telegram from Georgia saying one hundred fifty thousand comrades stand ready to follow his lead in protecting national honor. Gordon replied that he hears rebel yells and Yankee buzzos as the nation unites in defense of the flag.
Miss Tehen Paulson of Alden, Minnesota, was seriously injured when a cow being moved by farmers charged and trampled her. The animal bolted from the handlers and leaped onto the young woman before she could retreat, delivering a dangerous blow.
An unidentified man smashed the glass sign of I C Allen at the Putnam building entrance and broke the large sidewalk sign. A large plate glass window at a former Commercial Bank building, once led by Allen as president, was also smashed and the incident is under police investigation. Separately, fifty cars of steel rails for the Klondike project were shipped from Hay View by Illinois Steel, rolled at Bay View mills, marking the first shipment in a large Klondike construction order.
In a wartime scenario between the United States and Spain a US regiment may include Chippewa Indians from the Lake Superior area. A cuirass of Chippewas is said to indicate that nearly a thousand young men are prepared to enlist.
Canadian Emery near Winnipeg reports very fine emery on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg. Experts say deposits cover about twenty five square miles with around fifty claims taken. Aluminum and quicksilver prospects also found in the same region.
A telegraphed report says William Olson, a crew member from Kalamazoo, Michigan, fell from a Wisconsin Central train near Barker, Wisconsin. His foot was crushed and part was amputated by a local surgeon. Olson was transporting baggage from Chippewa Falls to Minneapolis.
The Red Jacket shaft of Calumet and Hecla near Floughton Michigan has started producing copper from the thirty seventh level. The vertical shaft, nearly one mile deep, began in 1880 and with equipment has cost over 2 million dollars.
Houghton Michigan reports a light snowfall halting winter work with several milling feet of logs stuck in the woods and drives. Lake Superior bay ice is rotten and an unusually early navigation opening is expected.
Colonising Work in Vau Claire Wisconsin reports the county board has resolved to sell to James I Gates lands in Milwaukee County at twelve dollars per forty. The deal is to close in thirty days, with Gates as a member of the colonising syndicate headed by former Governor Upham.
In Wanpun Osceola Wisconsin Special Tel-H St Clair found guilty of criminal assault sentenced to ten years in Wanpun penitentiary. Guy S Merrick pleaded guilty before Judge Vinji to bigamy and was sentenced to one year.
A Mississippi River ice breakup is advancing ten days earlier this season than the previous record at this point.
A major blaze swept through Whittemore destroying every business house except the Union German Bank building. Contained items and structures were incinerated, with a total loss estimated at $25,000. Insurance details were not confirmed at presstime.
The steamer Aus tralia has arrived from Alaska. Officers report that the slip Suckle, with the government pick tran, which was to have been used at the govern hat relief expedition, has arrived at yen.
In Algona Iowa a Rahm case verdict finds assault with intent to do bodily harm. The judge sentences the prisoner to one year at hard labor.
Crosby Matthews, Wells Fargo agent at Newport, arrested on larceny charges. Held on 2500 bond after allegedly defrauding customers of about 10000 dollars. Local police report ongoing investigation into missing funds.
The nine year old son of L. Muchn died from complications after a surgical operation to remove a tumor. The case concerns a cancerous growth in Minnesota. Local officials noted the tragedy and conveyed condolences to the family.
A Century writer recounts how Gen Nathaniel Greene’s youngest daughter helped Eli Whitney perfect the cotton gin at Dungeness. Whitney’s model stalled until she used a clothes brush to clear the teeth, prompting Whitney to praise her as having perfected the invention.
The article recounts feared deaths tied to fright from Frederick I of Prussia’s era to a Dutch painter Pentman in the seventeenth century. It notes a queenly wife’s blood ritual, a ghostly white lady, and a cobrascaresome incident leading to a monarch’s fever and death within six months, plus a terror from dancing bones and a haunted room ending in fatal nerves tremors.
A fragmented Exchange column compares women’s roles in China Rome Turkey and Siberia. It notes arranged marriages and prices in China, lack of inheritance and divorce for counterfeiting keys in Rome, veiling and seclusion in Turkey, and Siberian wives treated as abject slaves. The piece contrasts rigid control with varied customs.
In a playful exchange, Kicklea remarks that the coffee reminds him of his mother’s brew. His wife responds with amused surprise, noting that she recalls her mother making about the worst coffee she ever tasted, in a Boston Traveler style moment.
A satirical glossary defines tears as a war cry of an angry woman, and a bigot as someone who never agrees. Hope is a nerve for the ambitious, reputation a fragile bubble, divorce a key to wedlocks, demise the death of a large estate holder, air the wind’s main ingredient, grape shot the man intoxicated by grape juice, and yukonoclast a discouraging regional reporter.
Advice stresses healthful concentrated rations for Alaska Yukon Klondike travelers. Emphasizes avoiding baking powder bread, choosing royal brand baking powder, sound cured bacon, and durable fuel for camp life. Royal Baking Powder Co offers a compact cookery book free to miners.
A traveler recalls Treland minstrels in Brin, with Tim Brennan singing of Ireland, tonight enthralling a Galway town crowd. The fiddler replaced by a churn head banjo prompts a playful exchange about arguing with a lady as the crowd enjoys the performance.
N W Ayer and Son, the Philadelphia advertising agency, announces Albert G. Bradford and Jarvis A. Wood are now partners effective January 1. The firm notes their long tenure and steady rise, and recounts growth from 1868 to annual business surpassing 1.6 million dollars with 6,000 dollars paid daily to publishers.
The readable lines discuss beauty and social hooks about tandem rides, a pawnbroker with high interest tied to big business, and a vague note on lovers and distance. Mentioned place counts reference London with 600000 houses, Parla with 90000, and New York with 1000000.
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