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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1924
Page
8
An agricultural technologist notes that the parasite mermithid is a lethal grasshopper foe. Infected grasshoppers die in about eight days as the parasites multiply rapidly. Also mentions hot baths and Cuticura products in unrelated advertisement copy and a moral adage about marriage and honor.
The article honors Memorial Day as a growing national observance linking Lincoln, Washington, Arbor Day, and others. It recalls war dead and veterans, notes Civil War memories at New Market, and salutes service across generations while referencing Arlington, the Unknown Soldier, and figures like Harding and Wilson.
Johnny Clem born Newark Ohio August 22 1851 became famed drummer boy at Shiloh and Chickamauga. He received multiple wounds, carried dispatches for General Thomas to General Logan, and rose through the ranks to colonel retiring August 18 1915 after service on the frontier and in the Philippines.
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