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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
8
The article describes a trend of Egyptian elements in interior design this year. It highlights fashionable clothing influences and consumer taste, noting Egyptian mural decorations in textiles like chintzes and cretonnes with red, yellow, black, and white motifs.
A pasted advertisement claims Paterson’s Ointment cured 61 ulcers and various skin conditions. It touts quick relief for bleeding and itching piles, pimples, and eczema, with testimonials from users in Rochester and Paterson. Also notes a Newfoundland cat voyage tale and Australia’s quarantine policy for pets from the UK and NZ. The Sydney Telegraph item is cited.
Fort Monroe programs shift Coast Artillery officers into advanced training emphasizing gunnery, ballistics, and mechanical maneuvering for seacoast ordnance. Officers study ballistic coefficients, atmospheric effects, gravity, wind drift, range tables, curvature corrections, and dispersion to achieve accurate long range fire.
Notes on shipping and transport shortages from India to Great Britain, rising prices for cottonseed and oil cake for dairy cattle, a Calamba sugar estate sale to Japanese capitalists, and large wartime manpower figures. Also mentions a London king’s cat on treasury allowance, women telephone operator postings to France with uniforms, and pay scales from $60 to $1265 monthly with rations and quarters for hopeful applicants.
Berliner Busst Randolph North Dakota signs enlistment papers at a US navy recruiting station amid tight oath theatrics. The officer teases as the name proves hard to spell, and two enlistment blanks are torn up. In another scene J Jerrold and Anos J. Cummings pilot a stormy no great voyage aboard a pilot boat, one clinging to life preserver while the other reads aloud, noting the crew’s regular salary to keep the boat afloat.
A garbled passage shows dialogue with phrases like many others and old boy. It references leading people into trouble and letting them settle disputes, leaving the overall meaning and context unreadable.
A fragmented OCR style verse hints at a clergyman and an infant with later life hopes. It mentions tasting water as better than champagne and a reference to fish three days prior to drinking. The lines suggest satirical or dramatic dialogue with obscure context and unclear attribution.
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