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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1906
Page
6
A poetic tribute to a quiet, compassionate woman who eschews marriage and motherhood yet guides, comforts, and helps the needy. The speaker praises her steadfast grace, kindness to orphans, and ability to brighten sorrow with a warm, steady heart, noting that men were blind in her youth.
In a dusty road mishap a careless chase ends with Billy Brooks rescuing a foundered party. Julia, Hildegarde, and Godfrey Stewart escape serious harm as a red car, a yellow Meteor, and a champagne mishap collide. Amid wreckage, Julia and Godfrey decide to marry that day at a parsonage, leaving Billy to reconcile the muddled trio while Hildegarde’s impromptu scheming flits in the background.
The Atchison railroad buys 8050 acres in California for eucalyptus groves to supply ties, aiming to plant 450 acres yearly for a 20 year cycle. Each tree yields six to eight ties and preparations may lead railroads to cut their own lumber as demand grows. Middle western railroads also plant groves, with Kansas already having sizable plantations.
Readable fragments describe a richly furnished villa near rompell with imitations of space and a collection of metal glass and terra cotta. A pressroom held a bed jewelry candelabrum and bronze vessels as bodies and a dog perished in the eruption. A plaster cast of a victim sits in Pompeii’s Field museum case alongside bronze and glass pieces. The closing note echoes a fatal paradox about loving enemies.
A late night highway robbery at the Wille's post office and general store in Brod Wirt left three men aloft as they dynamited the safe. Fred Air, returning from a wedding, alerted the town. Sheriff Stowland and Deputy Kilegon Harry pursued, resulting in one escapee and the other two men captured after a brief exchange of gunfire near Blackstrap schoolhouse.
The Marshalltown mill dam dispute may hinge on a compromise between the city and private citizens. Landowner G W Tallint, owning riverfront property, is to submit a water rights proposal. The city proposes a dam with docks and controlled locks to prevent water shortages during flooding while preserving the canal lands. both sides have secured instructions for settlement, else the case could extend.
Thomas Connell, a discharged bookkeeper and credit man for the Iowa Drug Company, shot himself with a 38 caliber revolver on the Des Moines river road between Sixth Avenue and Park Deluge. He was found unconscious, with blood and brains visible, and is not—likely—to survive.
Damages based on life expectancy under a private personal injury suit. The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a $32,016 judgment against Glu Cose Sugar Stefinetny Company of Davenport, finding Huggard had a 37 year life expectancy and should be compensated proportionally for inability to work. He sustained injuries affecting the lower body, marking the largest such award in Iowa.
A Clinton area theft report describes looting at homes of Thomas Purcell Hana Smith John Watts and John Jones on Grand Avenue. Thieves took jewelry eggs a case and a sack of four, with an earlier night period indicating attempted entry at a Kenel House with a damaged front door. The text is fragmentary and partially unintelligible.
An accused man named Greensberry Eliine Molen Rope of Mankein and Strisdown Greetberry Filkins died by hanging in Osla loxt while awaiting trial for attacking his 15 year old daughter. A separate account notes a man strangled by his own improvised restraint in a cage. The body was found by the turnkey.
Patrick Nevins, an elderly resident of Muscatine, was found burned to death in his home after a blaze that followed reports his son and Bath were away intoxicated. The coroner's jury ruled death by fire and smoke with no identified culprit. Suspicion centers on the son who claims the father started the fire while attempting a rescue. Authorities search the house for traces of crime as the estate is found to be substantial.
A ten year old boy, the son of Milo Wood, was accidentally struck by a mule team pulling a tank wagon for Standard Old Company in Gowrie. The child fell from the seat as the wagon passed, was run over, and, though rescued unconscious, remained in critical condition with slim chances of recovery.
The Supreme Court allowed a $32,916 judgment secured by A. L. P. Huggard against Glnensa Sugar Refining of Davenport. It held Huggard had a thirty seven year expectancy for work and should be proportionately compensated for disability. The injury caused complete paralysis of the lower body and the verdict was the largest affirmed in Town for a personal injury case.
A string of violent incidents and public notices across Iowa unfolds. A tramp named Wilson is badly wounded after a box car fight on the Milwaukee line near Corydon with five bullets. another man Choa mon is injured from a train scene. A Des Moines hospital reports arsenic poisoning affecting forty three staff and patients from gooseberry pie, prompting an investigation. A Chicago Great Western wreck near Melbourne leaves engineer Till and fireman Mitchell fatally injured. Police report burglaries and arrests in Town City, with Durglare and Davenport crooks tied to cases. Fire destroys the Roger's Coal mine shaft at Olivet. Odd Fellows adjourn in Des Moines for next year’s convention. State brief notes include robberies, a church project, and assorted local accidents and deaths.
The report notes sustained business growth amid high rates, with strong factory output and consumption, yet lumber receipts lag and rail delivery slows. Future work and capacity expansion strain transportation, power, machinery, and construction sectors, while wood products, footwear, and hardware face material shortages and rising costs.
A dense OCR list reports cattle hogs sheep and grain prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis Louisville Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Prices cover wheat corn oats rye barley eggs butter and hay with ranges for grade and quality notes such as No 2 and mixed varieties.
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