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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 01, 1904

Page

6

Large Crop of Barley Apples in Iowa Market Shocks

Coroner's jury imputes carpenter Winsfield Carpenter's death to strychnine poisoning after he drank coffee from a jar. The case links to a broader Iowa harvest scene with record yields of high quality apples shipped to New Orleans and other points amid market excitement. Other items note a child's death from butter coloring, a bank failure driving a man to suicide, prison reforms, a Mason City child’s burns, and assorted state notices.

Carpenter Worms New Orleans Doxag Ison Wins ‘Field Carpenter Atrychalis Rockwood University of Iowa Chemfal Frank Ireb Olin Aa Waterton Indigs Missourl Valley Grinpell Woodbine Presbyterland George Young Dubuque George Oliver Roth Glenwood Gov. van Sant Minnesota J. C. Hubinger Company Keo‘kuk Duluth Immenia Fort Madison Otto Bishop Pueblo Colo Waterloo G. Smith Mix Mary Caonaday Creston Carsam Dés- Moines New Sharon Northwestern Iowa James Greene County Brookfield Thardea Flo Champlis Bros Clinton Cho Eifall Insurance Ernest Cameron J. B. Cameron Conroy Situs Hopkins

Tornado Devastates North St Louis and Across Mississippi

A violent storm tore through North St Louis causing one death and about fifty injuries, with $100000 damage. The funnel crossed the Mississippi into Venice Illinois, killing another person and injuring ten. Buildings, a hall, the Madison Copper Works, and the Niedringhaus mill suffered severe damage as debris and power lines caused chaos.

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Cost of Strike Hits Meat Industry and Livestock Market

The strike's cost to workers and packers runs into millions as Chicago meat plants slow, then scale up with western branches and Fort Worth plants. Output shifts reduce cattle slaughtering, while consumers face higher meat prices and farmers hold back fattened cattle hogs and sheep.

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Mixed World News Snippets and Notable Figures

A digest of varied notes highlights Itulco-Japanese war interest, novelist Martin Hume’s bilingual storytelling, Belgian painter M Cacanr Docock aged 81, Bohemian violinist Kubalik reportedly earning over 500000 in three years, Pope Pius's bid to trim cardinal incomes facing opposition, engineer M Tore’s new craft to reduce pitch and howl, Velado’s U S vacation, Sarasate playing violin since age 12, Hussin mourning astronomer Theodore Bredikhine, and Gabriele d Annunzio selling autographs while others leave fortunes to heirs.

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Magnitude of the Corn Crop and Midwest Growth

The piece discusses large corn yields in the United States, noting 2,244,176,125 bushels for the year. It highlights Missouri’s Hon. David Rankin’s vast corn plantations and a single field over 6,000 acres. It credits Kansas City’s growth to corn region centrality and traces shifts in meatpacking centers from Cincinnati to Chicago and Kane County.

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Prunes Price Drop Warns California Growers

Producers and millers fear a glut as prune output soars. California and Grozon crops are projected at 150 million pounds with a seaborn-aver missive from last year at 0 million pounds. Osula, Sorvin, and France combined yield 400 million pounds, limiting possible exports. In Japan, about 10 thousand of the 00 thousand Catholics reside in Tokyo.

California Grozon Osula Sorvin France

Czar’s Wednesday decree frees exiles amid land reform plan

The decree announces reforms including abolition of corporal punishment for rural slaves and military offenses, creation of a 1.6 million fund to aid landless Finns, amnesty for many political offenders, and broad pardons with exile numbers cited. Thousands affected, many exiles may return from Siberia. The text recalls 1850 events after the Crimean War under Tsar Alexander II.

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Fragmented Review of Nicholas I and Liberal Policy

The text surveys Nicholas I and a lineage of liberal policy, noting rumors of exiles and government rewards. It credits his grandfather with a liberal policy in 1850 and mentions a peak in 1801 with serf abolition, interrupted by the death of Alexander II’s assassin in 1881, shaping views of possible constitutional grants.

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Wireless stations to link Key West with Caribbean and Alaska

Rear Admiral Manney signed a contract for wireless telegraph stations to connect Key West with Fanaa Puerto Rico and Cuba coastlines, Pensacola, and Alaska later. Progress includes possible Alaska talks after Aleutian installations, with reports of rapid tech gains and cross Atlantic message tests from Poldhu to Cape Cod.

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Going Back to Russia Drives Exodus from Pittsburgh District

A slow exodus of Russians and Russian subjects from the Pittsburgh district unfolds as laborers in mills mines and coke fields depart. Special cars and trains are arranged to move many toward New York then home. The Russian government enlists unnaturalized Russians for military service and may cover passage costs. consuls urge registration in American cities to locate and repatriate. Other regions report similar activity among Western and Northwestern workers bound for home.

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Bankruptcy Petition Filed Against Diamond Steel Co

A petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States District Court of Wilmington Delaware against the Diamond Steel Company by counsel for a large group of creditors.

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