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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1913
Page
6
A vintage guide to neckwear and sashes for Christmas gifting. It highlights net and lace collars, jabots, cravats, and belts with silk ribbons, rhinestone buttons, and velvet trims. Several sash and girdle designs are shown, with notes on color, buckles, and finishing touches.
Picture frames are cut from heavy cardboard and faced with cretonne. The back uses plain strong paper. Kings are added to hang them, or frames may have a hinged support on the back with pasted cloth for an easel.
In Denver a Blackfoot elder Fish Wolf Rebe announces openness to engagements amid a craze for rhythmic dances and tango. A restaurant manager aids patrons with a playful exchange about pies and suggestions, illustrating local entertainment lore.
The Glacier National Park performance features Chief Mish Wolf Robe and fellow leaders in ceremonial dances wearing ancestral buckskin robes, eagle feather war bonnets, beaded decorations, and painted bodies. The group enacts signifying movements with tomtoms, shields, and rattles as they perform sacred hymns and night songs.
Surgeons amputated the legs of John Guest after a train incident at Methodist Hospital Philadelphia. A gold watch was reportedly stolen from Guest’s pocket. orderly Paul Reiker was arrested and confessed to the theft amid the operation.
George Miller recounts a severe facial eruption starting as a pimple that burned and itched, spreading to the eyes and body. After applying Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and receiving samples, his condition improved and he was cured in twenty six days using one cake of Soap and two boxes of Ointment.
In a New York Weekly excerpt, a woman tells her suitor she cannot marry him but will remain his friend. He responds moodily that he will seek happiness elsewhere, while she anxiously pleads for more time to decide the fate of their relationship.
The Rev Edmund Heslop of Wilton Pennsylvania suffered dropsy for a year with swollen limbs heart flutter dizziness and exhaustion. After 65 boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills his swelling disappeared and he felt well again. He remains convinced of the remedy and later correspondence confirms continued faith in the treatment. Ad requests for Dodds Kidney Pills and free Household Hints music and recipes accompany the offer.
A Wonder asks readers to notice a pattern in blunt speech. The reply notes that blunt interlocutors tend to be the ones who get straight to the point. The exchange highlights a succinct communication dynamic.
Caution mothers to inspect every Castoria bottle for the safe remedy for infants and children. The notice emphasizes the product bears the signature and notes it has been in use for over 30 years as a trusted remedy. Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
Fragmented OCR text reads like a late 19th century newspaper page filled with absurd advertisements. It mentions a host of tonics and patent medicines, dental quackery, beauty claims, and garbled lines about mucosal cures and novelty devices amid humorous asides and dubious claims.
In Passaic New Jersey a sneeze exposed Niel Coppers a tramp hiding on the brake beam of a sleeping car bound for Buffalo He faces 30 days in the county jail of the county jail for the offense.
The region reports record yields of wheat oats barley and flax with average quality near the top. Wheat averages reach forty bushels per acre and oats up to 115 bushels per acre while flax yields exceed expectations. Many farmers erase debts and grow wealth through mixed farming and large scale operations aided by modern machinery.
A man, seeking a congenial church, attends a Uttle church where the minister quotes a solemn line about deeds. He sighs with relief, declaring he has found his crowd at last, a sentiment quoted by Ladies' Home Journal. An apparent ad promotes Wrights Indian Vegetable Fills for quick relief from acid stomach and nausea, with a trial offer from New York.
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