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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
8
A passage notes surprising old phrases such as What the dickessa found in Stinkeapeares and regular shindy from an Author's note to a 1670 poem The Popleah Kingdom. An Athen navim writer cites the note describing Maundy Thursday Midnight services with a rotelar shindly as men are beaten.
A jumble of patent names from Minnesota and North Dakota plus a Kansas City arrest for refilling Coke dandruff cure bottles. Mentions include inventors Burgett Hardin Lenling Mar tin Moulton Pearson and others. plus legal arraignments of Burgess Lay and Fuge in Missouri with bonds set for May 24.
A jumble of patent medicine claims lines the page with cures for catarrh consumption and alcoholism. Nineteenth century ads cite Ball and Carter products, Luxurant hair, and Parker’s Balm, interspersed with sly jokes about stage murder and theater.
Kansas State Agricultural College professor D H Otis reports on test rations that cut butter fat costs to 6 to 9 cents per pound with pasture or selling crops. Alfalfa and kafir corn meal rations yield 10.8 to 12.3 cents per pound, while high priced concentrates raise costs to 15 to 17 cents. The study highlights on-farm feed production, drought resistant crops, and soybeans as a protein source, urging farmers to grow their own seeds and improve flock efficiency.
The article discusses how balanced rations influence fertility in eggs and how feeding affects future generations. It notes high carbohydrate diets may reduce fertility, and that egg shape results from long-term selection and atavism. It suggests selecting well shaped eggs for hatching to secure better egg quality.
G B Fulmer advises gradual ramp up of separator speeds taking six to ten minutes. Quick starts cause undue bearing strain and inefficient lubrication. Maintaining manufacturer speed prevents fluctuations in skimming and cream consistency, with centrifugal force rising faster than speed.
T B Sotham of Chillicothe Missouri outlined a plan at a Detroit livestock breeders meeting. He said calves are cheaper on the range to six months but lose weight after wintering and may be shipped to cultivated farms to finish for market. Range men would rely on older state breeders to keep herd quality improving with better beef bulls.
Bennett notes that overloading churns with thick skim milk and poor wash water temperature lead to weak or mottled butter. High churn temps tend to weak body, while low temps risk short bodies if cream breaks slowly before churning completes.
The article reviews the ages and lifespans of U S presidents from Washington to McKinley, noting Polk the youngest to die among early presidents and John Adams at ninety as the eldest. It highlights coincidences such as Adams and Jefferson dying on July 4 1826 and lists ages at death for presidents who have died, plus living ones Harrison Cleveland and McKinley.
A man has secured a permit to erect a temporary shed in Park Row New York to house a voting machine for testing. Passersby will be invited to enter, deposit a ballot for their presidential choice, and participate in a straw vote while the machine is tested.
The Boston Globe reports a hitherto unknown Eskimo group on Southampton Island in Hudson’s Bay, discovered by Whalera and investigated by Capt. C. Cromer for the American Museum of Natural History. They live in stone- and bone-built huts, craft lamps from limestone, and use deer-blood glue for pots, with a language distinct from other Eskimo groups.
A fashionable American woman in Constantinople climbed a tree to view the sultan’s mosque procession, filming with a camera. Police halted her after a 5,000-strong royal guard appeared. the crowd and officials debated her act as the sultan departed. The incident drew claims she was an emissary of Ebis.
Gen Wheeler is praised as a hero with a large following though not honored by the capital. A Cosmos club treasurer debated keeping a check from Little Joe for an autograph value, while Gen Greely urged depositing it and offered fifty of Wheeler’s autographs in exchange.
Brunswick Missouri with about seven thousand residents moves to plant a large forest on a thousand acres of former pine land. The council appropriated 100 dollars to develop the site. A seed nursery will be established to raise young white pine trees for future transplanting in planned rows and final positions.
A four year old girl named Rosamond writes a letter of waving lines and asks her father to seal it. When he asks what she said she replies she did not read it, only wrote it, revealing innocent mischief rather than meaning.
A New York World note reports a writer threatening to dedicate a book or publish under a pseudonym if a poem is not accepted, implying coercive pressure on publication and reputational stakes for the editor.
The notice promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a relief for swollen smarting burning and sweating feet corns and bunions. It claims a 25 cent price and free sample with orders sent to Allen 8 Olmatod 14Roy N. F. Theatrical managers announce strong attractions for the week.
The Pinkham Remedies for disorders of the feminine organs have gained renown and large sales for the permanent good they have done and are doing for women across the country.
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