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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1916
Page
6
Dialogue records a fiancé and fiancée negotiating marriage terms. She warns he must quit smoking, drinking, his club, and card gambling for money. He agrees, but reveals the final condition is abandoning the idea of getting married. The exchange reflects social pressures and personal commitments surrounding matrimony.
An ad notes fragrant creamy emollients for skin and hair health promising clear skin dandruff relief and soft hands with free samples by mail. A dynamite explosion near a town prompts an elderly woman to remark her improving hearing after twenty years. Limburger cheese is favored over cheap perfume.
After picking ends, mow and rake beds, remove dead material, and thin crowded centers. Apply well rotted manure, cultivate, and water generously. If rows are matted, plow center to form new row, remove old plants, and favor younger crowns to extend life and profits. Old plants show dark roots and black elongated crowns.
To curb potato blight, spray Bordeaux mixture starting when plants are about six inches high. Reapply every ten days to two weeks as new leaves form. Dissolve six pounds copper sulfate in 25 gallons water, then mix with six pounds fresh lime in 25 gallons, strain and combine just before spraying. Do not reuse leftover spray between applications.
An article urging farmers to grade cream for creameries to improve butter quality and prices. It argues that better cream yields better butter, enabling higher payments and encouraging investments in dairy cattle and efficient milk production.
Goats long viewed as a joke in the United States are now recognized for meat, milk, and cloth from kid meat. Healthful qualities of goat milk and the value of silky haired varieties are noted as they are pastured on waste land to clear brush. Forestry service uses goats to clean dense brush on reserves to allow grass to grow.
Advice on beekeeping outlines buying bees by the pound with Italian queens, acquiring swarms, reviving neglected stands, and supplying neighbors with hives and brood frames. Emphasizes reliability and experience, recommends nuclei and strong colonies to build up.
Melon growers face anthracnose causing leaf spots and fruit blemishes on watermelons cucumbers cantaloupes and squashes. Warm wet weather aids spread. control with Bordeaux spray. Apply before ripening and again two weeks later if weather favors development.
A historical note explains preventing horn growth in dairy cows by dehorning calves at four to five days old with caustic potash. Hair is cleared from the horn bud area and the paste applied until slight bleeding or blistering occurs. A dent is felt in the skull after a few days, preventing future horn development.
Anthracnose is a fungous disease of wax and green beans showing small purplish spots that become large dark patches with a pink spore center. The fungus penetrates pods and seeds. seed selection is crucial for control. If early, spray with Bordeaux mixture and use crop rotations. burn infected plants.
The article discusses better lighting for houses and barns to increase attractiveness and convenience on farms. It notes that trouble stems from ignorance or negligence and highlights the impact of high efficiency lamps in promoting adoption on small isolated farms.
A reader argues the term gringo is an old Spanish word pre dating the Mexican War by seven decades, tracing its usage to 1787 in Terreros y Pardo’s Dictionario Castellano. The note cites earlier references in Omnenne Nunez de Tabonda and translations linking gringo to foreigners with unfamiliar speech or accent.
A Boston woman won a $50 wager promending the principal streets of Boston Providence and Worcester in a hand painted gown hat and parasol. The money goes to the Red Cross relief fund. She notes no obstacle to daring, even if her husband objects, and mocks male reluctance in the face of feminine resolve.
A World column quotes a city girl who adores western men and parries with a westerner. The quarrel reveals playful stereotypes and sharp humor about West versus East in a New York City setting.
In a dialogue Senator Sorghum argues forgiveness may come later while giving enemies a preemptive lesson to prove generosity. A quip about girls marching in breakfast attire suggests fewer hasty marriages, and a boastful past is dismissed as harmless bragging.
A man recounts his claim of being at the front amid two hours of constant shrapnel and shellfire. A young woman listening to his vivid narrative reacts with horror and sympathy.
Neighbor banters about being behind the times as Josh cuts a new dance, Warmer insists dances are at least a year old. Garden plans prove daunting for a resident who jokes about past failures, while talk turns to Rastus’s marriage and ongoing work.
A brief, incomplete dialogue fragment shows a pensive speaker asking if a person succeeded after tying to cave in with his face. The exchange ends with the answer that his countenance had fallen, suggesting a failed attempt and a disappointed reaction.
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