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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
8
A February issue highlights Dr. A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins announcing a notable theory on Earth's magnetism. His experiments use a metal wheel with wire, brass casing, and rapid rotation to simulate atmospheric layers, suggesting magnetism rises with speed.
The French under secretary of state for posts and telegrams orders daily disinfection of public telephone receivers and transmitters with a carbolic acid solution to curb infections. Medical professionals doubt the disinfectant’s effectiveness and critique its strong odor. A separate note mentions Japan's Tokio Card and Pasteboard Co testing pasteboard roofing shingles at about 60 percent lower cost than wood, tarred for weatherproofing.
The article profiles W. Creamer near Baldur Manitoba as a leading mixed farmer who arrived in 1880. His farm spans 1280 acres with 800 cultivated, 400 plowed for wheat next spring, 60 cattle, 50 pigs, 40 horses, and extensive barns, granary, and mills. He also runs a threshing audit and benefits from a strong water supply and protective bluff landscape.
A cluttered page lists patents by inventors from Minnesota and nearby states including Forstner Sigal Deverell and Lake Goodell Kresen Leasman Latourell Fischer Olson and others along with miscellaneous ads and a lengthy medical advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure. It also includes trivia quotes and anecdotes about trials and marriages.
A chatty ad claims a laxative cures and imitates a famed tonic, then a youth argues with an elderly gentleman about future punishment. The elderly man reacts, and a writer from Philadelphia Tribune is cited for an earlier retort. The piece blends medical and moral banter with period voice and implied critique of reform zeal.
S18 PER WEEK. A salary of $18 per week and expensas will be paid to man with one or two lise rig to Introduca onr Poultry Compound and Liga iver wnong Furiiere. Address with stump, Auna Mfg. Co., Des Moines, lows. A neighbor jokes about Penny running away with the farmer's wife as gossip circulates. a light quip about political views ends with a joke about keeping the mind young.
A mixed slide of Victorian era notes includes Abe Patient's Hair BALSAM and remedies for teething and infant discomfort, along with Aunt Gertrude humor about growing a beard. It also highlights London charity care at a Jewish ward in a major hospital with separate facilities and a rabbi, noting patient despair amid hope and comfort in wards for Jews and general wards alike.
Sir Richard Webster was in an accident near the Law Courts. After alighting, he gave the cabman his card for witness use. In court, the lawyer sat near the bench. The cabman waited outside and quipped he would drive him anywhere. He claimed he knew it would be all right seeing him in court.
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