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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
6
A humorous sketch about senate pages and secrecy in Washington. It notes visitors misjudge pages as studious, while implying pages hear private whispers, cloakroom deals, and the hidden antics of senators. The piece playfully catalogs the aura of intrigue in the Senate and the nickname Grandma for a querulous senator.
A rookie legislator learns Washington’s Capitol stationery basement offers vast, cheap goods including fine linen and cotton papers priced for $2.40 per thousand, and a $125 annual stationery allowance. The shop runs at no profit, with a bustling gift and social stationery section reflecting lawmakers’ gift habit and family office aims.
Captain Bowyer apologized after a Beers scandal at Annapolis. Miss Beers, Yale professor Henry Beers daughter, was excluded from an academy hop over concerns she earned her living. Taft ordered a full navy investigation stating snobbery at the academy. The inquiry found Captain Bowyer responsible for labeling her an undesired guest.
The Smithsonian will publish the fourth paper in a series on insect and bird flight. Professor von Len denfield oversees ten years of work begun by the late Secretary Langley. Dr. Wolfgang Ritter details the bicenfly's flying apparatus with meticulous anatomy and wing mechanics, illustrated by experiments. A forthcoming item notes a bibliography of R. B. C. Stearns and a biographical sketch of Dr. William H. Dall.
Des Moines temperance forces claim a rider in the new prohibition bill will bar liquor sales in fraternal and social club houses after July 1. The measure requires certified lists of license holders as prima facie evidence of intent to sell. The piece covers court decisions on various Iowa cases and notes state geologist election, executive council space concerns, bankruptcy action against a Winterset milliner, and the state fair plans including Pompeii show with a 40‑girl ballet.
The Iowa state board of control reports a sharp drop in residents at the Soldiers' Home in Marshalltown from about nine hundred to six hundred. The decrease is attributed mainly to pension increases and furloughs rather than death, though mortality does play a role.
John F Williams of Dorchester Boston describes severe dandruff and hair loss reduced after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. He shampooed twice weekly, applied the ointment, and achieved a thick hair growth with no recurring scalp trouble. He claims the remedies cured him and recommends them to customers.
Andrew Carnegie at a New York dinner criticized employers for being often in the wrong and unreasonable in labor troubles. He cited a humorous arc about Mrs. Smith Jones demanding truthfulness and obedience from a villa butler, illustrating stubborn employer demands versus reality.
In a Browns/Cleveland Plain Dealer style quip a brief overheard exchange describes two men joking about large fish with an unnamed fish weighing anecdote and a quip about shooting ducks and gathering four quarts of toes, captured as a vivid but fragmentary chat.
In a terse exchange a young woman pushes for parental consent to marriage while asserting modern resolve. The man counters with youth’s romantic bluntness, highlighting a clash between old-fashioned propriety and contemporary expectations.
An advertisable health claim extols kidney health and recommends Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. 0 W Erwin of Little Falls Minn recalls bloating breathlessness and back pain before using Doan's, says she is now well. Doan's offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY priced 60 cents a box.
A Judge narrator vents anger at plutocrats as they ruin the poor by moving to automation in car seeders, accusing them of cheating a worker out of his living and lamenting rising wages and exploitation.
A fragment hints at an actor named Hfa warned about wandering behavior. A speaker addresses a madam, insisting the rail road ties remain ever with them, suggesting an ongoing tension or constraint referenced in a clipped dialog.
A short, tangential OCR fragment mentions a single binder straight Go cigar and paying 1c for cigars not good. It also references a young person described as a liar used to amuse himself.
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