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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
3
A charming serial romance by W. E. Norris presented as a simple vivid tale of everyday life. The plot features a double identity and a blend of love money and rivalry with masterful literary effect.
In a dim Oxford bedroom, the stern Dean nears death as lawyer Breffit drafts a last will. The Dean, long quarrelsome and isolated, revokes earlier testamentary plans in a rapid, final act. After signaling farewell to the lawyer, the dean dines well in the oak-paneled house before returning to London.
In a tense scene, Drysdale learns Musgrave plans to leave Laura ten thousand pounds to a nephew while disowning Laura and pondering her fate. The Dean recalls Laura’s desertion with a music master, leaving Musgrave unsure if she fled to New Zealand, vanished, or died, and he contemplates his will and next of kin.
The aging Musgrave dies after a tense rift with heir by adoption, leaving £10,000 plus a larger fortune potential. The Dean of St Cyprian's prays at the bedside, while nephew Frederick Musgrave in London learns of the death only after a late telegram. The Master of All Saints and Drysdale reflect on duty versus affection as events conclude.
The New York Press recounts the brutal keelhaul punishment long used before steam. A line under the ship dragged sailors beneath hulls, scraping and nearly drowning them. The act, logged as Providence, was witnessed as cruel sport by captains, leaving survivors wary of future offenses.
A stitched collage notes centipede venom myths and real danger, contrasting venomous first claws with a headless lookalike, and mentions of a large eleven inch specimen. It also compares tarantulas to scorpions and centipedes, with anecdotes about Australian bushmen and a bridal tour quip from Puck. A curious closing line claims a rubber tree yields squid from sap.
A National Monetary Commission report uses charts to trace forty years of American banking. It covers national and state banks and trust companies, capital, circulation, and gold stocks from 1867 to 1909, noting panics in 1893 and 1907 and key legislative changes in 1900.
A mixed batch of sports and entertainment notes reports the Hel, 2.02 percent record prospects, Michigan State Fair stakes totals, 150 China attendance requests for Jeffries Johnson fight, Berlin breeder Bes ate Brown purchased for stud, notable horses Paderewski Margin and Sterling McKinley joining a trainer’s stable, and baseball promoter talks to move White Sox ball plant openings away from a Friday opening perceived as unlucky.
The Senate received a favorable report on a bill granting an annual pension of 5000 dollars to the widows of former presidents Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. The piece discusses each widow's relation to the presidency, births, deaths, and the evolving role of presidential spouses. Dolly Madison is noted as an exception, living quietly in Washington after Madison's death.
A Department of Commerce and Labor special agent reports striking cost disparities between England and the United States. In London, a family of four can live on about 5.24 dollars weekly, while average working men earn 7.26 to 9.75 dollars. Taxi drivers take 15 to 20 dollars weekly, policemen about 10.33, and engineers just over 10. Labor unions say unemployment has persisted at 65 to 78 percent for five years for those ready to work.
The Archives Postales of Paris report 271,000 post offices worldwide across 97 states covering 30 million square miles. The United States leads with 63,063 offices, followed by Germany 49,828 and the United Kingdom 23,738. Russia, France, Italy, and Austria are also listed with sizable counts. Global daily postal business reaches about 110 million pieces, valued at roughly $68 million in registered mail contents.
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