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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1900
Page
4
A long letter to the Fayette town paper criticizes local sentiment toward Fayetter University, arguing that the town’s moral standard is shaped by the university’s presence. The piece defends Fayetter residents, condemns hostile journalism, and cites reflections on community identity, education, and regional pride.
A visiting senior witnessed Columbia University women practicing gymnasium drills in a mixed setting. He noted the scene revealed athletic vigor and grace, with hopping, vaulting, and parallel bars, though it contrasted with his expectations and left him unsettled by the display.
In Lisle Pennsyl town a performing bear and its French owner frequented roadside beer taps causing chaos. The bear bit Dietz injuring his arm after a wrestling bout, chased youths, nosed a barber shop steps, and roamed stores until sheriff arranged a night in jail for the pair with orders to leave at daybreak.
In Austria sawdust from Josépl Fi la’s large sawmill is made into briquettes for boiler furnaces. The material is tar impregnated, heated, and pressed into 6 by 26 by 14 1/2 inch blocks weighing 2/5 pound each. Calorific power rivals magnetite with 4 percent ash. The factory produces over 1,000,000 briquettes annually at about 1 cent per thousand cost, selling at $1. Profit margins are substantial.
A New Orleans Times dispatch surveys advances and dead ends in understanding bird flight. It notes repeated failures to unlock nature’s secrets, recounts attempts by Lillenthall, Hiram Maxim, and later Oliver Chanute and Smithsonian researchers, and predicts progress will come with persistent effort.
The article argues against geocentrism, asserting Earth and planets revolve around the sun and rotate on their axis. It details the implausibility of daily Earth rotation requiring universal celestial motion, notes vast hypothetical speeds, and references the Montreal Herald and Stat.
A series of wheat growing experiments at Halstead Kansas selects about 150 wheat varieties from around the world. About eighty are in good condition by spring. The aim is to see which foreign wheats thrive in Kansas climate and to improve varieties by grafting and cross-breeding. Several years of propagation in the same soil are needed to judge value.
The Orloff diamond, claimed as the world’s finest, is held by the Dyer family. It was reportedly bought for Catherine IT by Pince Ora loft in 1778 in Amsterdam for a sum of £4 with a planned annuity of 4,050 roubles. The fragmentary text references heralded treasure and distant markets, implying vast wealth and prestige surrounding the gem.
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