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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1912
Page
6
A dense, hands-on guide covers livestock care and crop practice. It stresses pure breeds, dairy cleanliness, timely milking, proper horse feeding, and pest control. Recommendations include salt for dairy cows, avoiding crowded fowls, rotating crops, and using cement floors for hogs, with emphasis on efficiency and sound husbandry.
A Hopi Pueblo group designed by W H Holmes and built with Messié, Dunbar and Hendley completes a snake dance for rain. The August ceremony at northeastern Arizona Hopi Pueblos includes snake priests the antelope chorus and sacred meal sacrifices, with a rattling procession and snakes gathered by carriers.
During a village ceremony, collectors seize the snakes and hold them until the rite ends. Priests then swiftly carry the snakes to the country below the mesa and roll them. The villagers do not willingly touch the snakes, whether poisonous or harmless, seeing them as sacred with divine attributes and powers.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction warns that unchecked fire losses and harm to birds could boost expenses, with estimates nearing one million dollars as attributed by the Arbor Day Annual. The report urges better fire protection and wildlife safeguards to curb costs.
Joseph Hamil is dead at his home in Strassburg after a wind blew a barn door shut as he entered with a shotgun. The gun discharged, killing him, in a tragic home accident reported locally.
The Prussian government decided to prolong the entire 60 million dollar of short-term 4 percent treasury notes payable in July. The move aims to ease fiscal pressure by extending the note maturity across the full issue.
A popular Irishman near Bloomytile died suddenly. He belonged to several groups and a Bloomytile AOH representative attended his funeral. The church was crowded and the sermon used a simile about a watch with a diamond-studded case to illustrate immortality. The delegate returned home and recounted that Pat was no Waterbury.
Mrs Noble Tubman of Dodson Montana reports her six month old son suffered six weeks of extensive itching sores hair loss and sleeplessness. After trying various remedies and doctors she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and within six weeks the child fully recovered. A campign of each with a 32 page book is mailed from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
Colorado representative Rucker, debating a tariff issue on buger, tells a Washington correspondent that lawmakers “don’t see my point.” A Bulletin reader replies with a quip about 5,000 elephants producing piano keys and billiard balls, provoking a chorus about elephants’ supposed intelligence.
An advertisement touts Murine eye care products promising quick relief for red watery eyes and irritation. It includes a illustrated book in each package and labels the product as not a potent medicine, with price noted as 0 and the Chicago-based company mentioned. A courtroom joke at the end references a judge and a student.
A vintage ad warns that Cole’s Carboli salve stops burn and cut pain, speeds healing, and prevents scars with free samples from J. W. Cole & Co. at Black River Falls, Wisconsin. It also promotes Paxton Toilet Co.’s Paxtine Antiseptic for women and hints at other era quips about love and the leap year bachelor.
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