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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1909
Page
1
Irene Garland returns to London with a fading aunt and a pair of suitors in pursuit. Rupert Carroll, Agatha, and Miss Carroll navigate a strained marriage, social gossip, and a potential match with Taunton as the Goodford sisters observe the unfolding drama in Hyde Park and drawing rooms.
Rupert returns from the city to Lord Netherville in his wife’s drawing room. Netherville rises nervously but is met with cordial, heartfelt handshakes as they greet one another.
In Tepic City’s dim electric light the senoritas flaunt breezy gowns and mantillas. Outsider notes that direct admiring looks may win smiles and a challenge, leading to bars, shy notes, and even serenades by night if money allows.
A Cleveland Leader excerpt shows a child asking about church subscriptions to fund a minister's vacation. The mother explains the fund will allow services to continue while he is away, and the child offers 1.28 from a bank can. The passage ends with literary quotes on happiness and courage.
A collection of farm notes urges poultry accounting as a money maker, promoting commercial poultry culture, investment of small sums, and practical feeding, housing, and management tips. It includes stories on neglect, proper hen care, gape worm treatment methods, and profitable small lot poultry keeping with emphasis on productivity and efficiency.
The article describes feeding fowls early in the morning with a grain breakfast and a second grain dinner, using wheat oats rye barley buckwheat or other small grains. It explains deep litter bedding and encourages exercise by scattering grain when feeding. Evening mash combines cracked corn wheat bran middlings and ground beef scrap.
Farmers' Home Journal notes late summer and fall hatch timings depend on cool spells in August or delayed late September if hot. Weather in fall and early winter governs chick survival. With adequate brood houses and care, a limited number can be profitable. otherwise cold, wet Novembers and Decembers shrink profits.
The piece suggests feeding fowls during molt with easily digested protein rich rations. It recommends adding meat, oil meal, and sunflower seed to regular feeds to supply feather material and heat, aligning with farmers' experiences.
The piece discusses managing fowls on small areas with green foods, alfalfa meal, fresh water, meat meal and grit. Emphasizes exercise, cleanliness, space efficiency, and avoiding drones. Encourages starting with a few pure-bred birds, using trap nests and leg bands, and notes seasonal strategies and gender roles in care. It also mentions egg storage, hatch planning, and market timing for cockerels.
A dense list of historical markers notes battles and political events from 1777 1781 through 1993. It includes Burgoyne surrender references 1777 at Saratoga Springs King s Mountain and Yorktown 1781 Lincolns 1864 debate Brigham Young 1871 and 1890 cotton spinning Centennial 1890s mining floods and floods 1993 Chicago settlement centennial festivities etc. The passage stacks miscellaneous dates places and incidents with few consistent narrative connections.
Prof Hergesell’s registering balloon launched from Monaco’s yacht at Tromsoe, Norway in 1906 revealed an inversion layer over the polar regions. The instrument showed minus 60 C at six miles and minus 47 C at ten miles, confirming a warmer layer lies lower at the poles than at the equator.
Director Campbell of Lick Observatory reports Mars shows trace vapor not detectable by spectrograph at summit level. Lowell at Flagstaff notes oxygen hints on Mars. In Dayton a man dies after autopsy on William Glage. poisoning with strychnine suspected. Charles Lent, Baltimore printer, commits suicide after placing a death note.
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