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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1904
Page
8
A nostalgic reminiscence of mother’s old fashioned doughnuts, the warm hearth, and the joys of childhood. The speaker laments that modern confections lack the soul and perfection of the home made doughnuts once fried by mother. The piece contrasts cherished memories with changing tastes and the loss of a sheltering home.
A detective narrates tracking a Chicago based counterfeit ring in 1318. He tests coins at a bank, joins a village gang at a tavern, stages a daring capture, and exposes Ned Willet as the master forger, leading to a gang takedown and prison terms.
A rambling report traces the Robe the bank of Treynor heist to Karl Karvot a Grinnell saloonkeeper now jailed for allegedly robbing the Treynor bank of 1000 dollars after locking a young woman in the vault. The tale follows bloodhounds to his farm then his capture and reveals further bank scheme details.
A Leeds woolen mill reports chest and hip measurements average 3 percent larger than two generations ago, suggesting no general racial deterioration. Larger framed workers are common in northern England and northwest Yorkshire. Oldham district notes England’s dwarfs among factory operatives.
A garbled excerpt shows a statesman refusing to tell a story to a reporter, promising it will be written by the nun who will author the biography. The text is damaged with misspellings and fragmented phrases.
In Finna region counties Delaware Madison Grant Jay and Standolph oil has transformed poverty into modest prosperity. Drillers struck oil in farmyards lifting elderly couples like Mr and Mrs Goff from debt to $250 monthly income and enabling Samual A Winger and others to gain $400 to $500 monthly checks, as settlers shift from hogs and grain to oil royalties.
Federal Judge Thomas G. Jones in Humtaville Alabama instructs the grand jury to indict mob participants who attacked a jail and hanged Maples, a Black man accused of a grave crime. He frames the question of whether white mob violence would have occurred if Maples were white and cites the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments as federal protection against racially motivated violence.
News notes a clothing plant in Charlotte North Carolina valued at sixty thousand dollars burned, and two blocks of Oakley Kansas buildings destroyed for a seventy five thousand dollar loss. Other items report a birthplace marker unveiling near Pineville New York, rail passes controversy in Nebraska politics, highwaymen jailed after gunplay, a murder-linked case tied to Georgia authorities, vandalism at Wichita warehouse, two freight train collisions near Mumford New York, and farmers from six counties urging federal grand jury action on tobacco trust practices.
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