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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1907
Page
1
Violet M. Flinn continues the tale at the Rectory where Aileen and Bride face mounting tensions about love and social expectations. Bertram’s past and Charteris’s guarded visits fuel mistrust as plans for Bride’s future, dances, and possible engagements unfold amid domestic strain.
Reports from the Panama canal project indicate progress with the Gatun locks as eight months target for main lock work approaches. Four steam shovels dig the locks while two prepare spillway works. dirt dumping and trestles rise across the line. Pipeline dredges to accelerate dam work to begin by May. river diversion and cement supplies discussed. Gatun lake area now mapped at 171 square miles.
Anna A Rogers in Atlantic Monthly condemns excessive education and sports focus for young women, creating a hybrid demanding, self‑centered partner. She laments slipshod companionship after marriage and notes many divorce courts undermine commitment.
In Galveston Texas a thousand dock laborers went on strike halting Southern Pacific operations. In Allegheny Pa Miss Helen Williams was killed and four others injured in a car crash in Pittsburg. William A Culp age 24 awaiting trial for his brother Floyd Culp’s death in Turtle Creek Pa hanged himself in county jail using his suspenders.
Advice from several columns on horse buying and animal breeding emphasizes prudence and knowledge. It warns buyers to study both horse and seller, avoid nosed horses, and choose unbroken or mares for reliability. It also discusses selecting brood sows, keeping proven mothers, and avoiding crossbred or ill tempered sows to ensure future herd strength.
Egg eating in fowls stems from lime deficiency or bad habit from confinement and example. One hundred eggs provide about twenty two ounces of lime intake needed by the birds, and broken cyater sphella may be the best remedy to supply it.
A Dakota Farmer editorial warns farmers against chasing a luxurious lifestyle from a small business. It urges cutting expenses to fit means and dedicating full effort to farming to outperform rivals. The piece emphasizes discipline, practical growth, and wholehearted commitment for success in agriculture.
Farmers are urged to acquire one or two wide tired wagons for versatile work such as hauling manure grain fodder and seed. Wide wheels reduce land damage and back strain, and adapters allow converting existing high wheeled wagons. Firms offer ready wide tired wheels at low cost.
Alfalfa is a nitrogenous roughage and a strong protein source for pigs though growing pigs may need more protein than a corn alfalfa ration provides. Hay can be offered in racks or chopped and steamed into a thick slop with ground corn. For chicken pox, isolate affected birds, provide green food, finish with carbolized vaseline on sores, disinfect yards, and color drinking water with permanganate of potash.
Special farming report notes farmers pivot from stock and sheep to potato cultivation. Milk and butter shortages push imports from the West and creameries. Spring work lagging prompts need for more horses bought at high prices, with costs from 500 to 800 dollars per pair.
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