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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1901
Page
6
In a wind swept St John’s Wood lane a mysterious trio plots a midnight arrival at Rickerby’s Folly. Nugent Leathwood presides over a planned takeover with Cornelius and Miles Probyn, as a staged visitor meets a fatal struggle in a ghostly room.
An unnamed figure moans as Nugent and companions threaten a shaky pursuit through a cursed residence. A frightened escape ends with a stumbling retreat into the night, leaving the house emptied and the street to the dead appearing citylike.
In a rain swept street a man waits at a doorway for a messenger. Two figures dash through the night, a chase leads to a running engine, a man is injured, and the pursued are brought to a hospital. A final cry reveals the wounded man shouting Gilbert Rickerby as a mystery deepens.
A Pennsylvania town faced a faulty standpipe indicator. A con man offered to fix it for forty dollars by lowering the water briefly, then climbing the pipe with a suction device hidden in a bag. He claimed to lift himself using a leather strapped suction machine, fooling the boss with the unlikely method.
Tommy questions never end and his mother warns him to be quiet to learn. Returning from the grocer, he reports the grocer talked endlessly but offered no lessons because he spoke Dutch. The boy laughs at the miscommunication, savoring the prank.
A fragment from Tit Bits recounts a bashful Pat and coy Biddy in a tentative romance with Pat remarking on his hesitation and Biddy prompting thoughts of marriage in a brief, nostalgic exchange.
Willie Wishington admits a short memory as Miss Cayenne responds with a sweet remark in a Washington Star style vignette from a serialized tale.
An American reader recalls a dining mishap in a French Tahie d Aote where a head waiter overheard a customer being charged for a portion described as anaita. The odd complaint reflects a chaotic restaurant scene reported by the New York Commercial Advertiser.
Readout of grain futures and livestock market quotes from Minneapolis Duluth Iowa and Chicago regions dated Nov 19 with No. 4 Northern wheat prices around 71 cents, No. 2 Northern near 68 cents, corn around 61 to 64 cents, oats near 39 to 40 cents. dairy and beef quotes for cattle hogs and sheep show varying bid ranges and prices across markets including South St Paul Chicago and Sioux City with notes on futures for December and May contracts.
Wilmington grain brokers Edwards Wood report a drop in December and May wheat and corn, driven by 1.4 million bushels North Western receipts and bearish government crop data. Argentina drought, rising visible supplies, and exhausted shipping demand fuel a cautious outlook. advisory suggests profits from cautious reentries and invites readers to request their private telegraph cipher and daily market letter.
In Sofia on November 19, abductors of American missionary Misa Hiten M. Btone and her companion Mme Tallka have not replied to U.S. diplomatic agent Mr Dickinson's latest proposals. The delay is attributed to the captors' debt to lenders and internal discord among them as they bargain with brigands.
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