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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1903
Page
8
An excerpt discusses a coop feature with a hole cut in the top front for ventilation, adjustable by a wooden piece. It notes dampness as fatal for turkeys and chicks and mentions an elevated coop design. The fragment suggests a novel passage focused on practical poultry housing details.
Historical farming notes describe a flexible poultry coop with hinged doors and a ventilator, a simple loading chute built from posts and boards, and methods for dehorning calves using caustic pencil. Also covered are fattening stock strategies, French foot and mouth disease treatments, and clover regrowth after cutting methods.
A historical bulletin discusses weed control, crop losses from exposure and disease, and the farmer’s daily challenges. It covers threshing woes, rain dependence, and the value of shelter over fields, plus notes on hay storage, seed corn protection, and keeping garden crops like sweat corn productive into late summer with specific varieties named.
United States reacts to murder attempt on Vice Consul Magelssen in Beirut and threats to American lives and missions in Constantinople and Harpoot. Ships Brooklyn and San Francisco ordered to Beirut to display force, while Loomis and Leishman report on conditions and seek protection for Americans in Macedonia and Turkey.
A Chicago police report shows a surge in street car accidents, with 1,117 incidents, 1,201 injuries, and 47 deaths in the first half of the year. Officials blame rider recklessness, overcrowding, and sparse cars, noting improvements after removing foot boards on cable cars. Charles C Beveridge of Fremont, Nebraska, dies in Excelsior Springs, Mo, as Prohibition party chair.
Boston bricklayers earn 55 cents an hour and the United Mine Workers plan a $100000 labor temple in Pittsburg. New York State has 16000 women members in unions, while Newfoundland fishermen total 100000 men catching 150000000 pounds of cod yearly. A fur trade union is forming in St Paul to unite US and Canada workers. Washington hosts several national unions. Cincinnati liverymen set a $52 funeral carriage rate from Sept 1. Union Pacific engineers gain about 84 percent wage rise and firemen about 34 percent, with mileage-based adjustments.
The article recounts Chicago’s rise from its early fort on Dearborn to a major metropolis. It notes key figures, including Baptiste Palate de Malble and John Kinzie, the 1803 fort construction, 1812 massacre and fire of 1871, population milestones, the 1900s census estimates, and the upcoming centennial celebration planned with parades and varied festivities.
Prophetic note warns of a four month disaster period began by a West India cyclone. Expert H K Edens claims an astrobarometer predicts September as the most ominous time with cyclones earthquakes eruptions and great disasters from Sept 19 to 20 and across England Russia Persia India Cuba and the United States.
Twenty breweries in western Pennsylvania merge in a 20 million dollar deal backed by Philadelphia and Pittsburgh capitalists. The move reshapes regional brewing with substantial investment and control shifting to new backers.
A jumbled OCR fragment mentions CARE TURKEY and reform in Macedónia with references to preventing further occurrences. It notes a murder, a figure named Krlegar, and a claimed Mediterranean command by a Huet.
The annual wheat harvest in Kansas, described as a conquest against nature, reached a record scale with Sumner County alone producing over 16 million bushels and Barton County needing thousands of extra workers. The belt spans thirty counties, charting a historic yield surpassing rival states and marking a peak in Kansas farming history.
Winfield Baker, a leader in the jail riot at Danville NL, was found guilty of assault with intent to murder Sheriff Whitlock. A prison term of one to fourteen years was imposed on an Indeterminate sentence. A second trial began for the indicted rioters including Walton, Hart, Biddle, Murray, Redwine, Blade, Robertson, Ball and Armstrong. Armstrong was ill and her case continued.
The International Association of Railway Ticket Agents plans its annual convention in Salt Lake City from September 12 to 14. A territorial charter is granted to the Kansas Central, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad with 20 million dollars capital. Plans for a union depot at Dl Pass estimate 240 thousand dollars. United States rails show gross earnings of 8,? million with 12.7 percent growth, while Atchison reports twelve months ending July 31 with net earnings of 23,018,287 and rising costs. The Knoxville and Ohio buys Knoxville and Bristol and Tennessee Northern for about 250 thousand and 400 thousand respectively. B H Harriman aims to form a coast system reaching Astoria via Oregon proper connections with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
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