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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1904
Page
6
A fragment recalls a tale of humble service and judgment in cooking. A young woman asks about flour while a puzzled waiter jokes about dodge ment and automaton wit. The New York Tribune notes Walter, lacking humor or judgment, as a compare with Park Row’s restaurant scenes.
Fragmented 19th century ad style text touts Dean's Kidney Pill as a permanent cure for kidney and nerve ailments, claims dramatic health restore, includes odd spellings, prices, and vendor notices. Also features a marriage anecdote and funeral goods promo with generic health tonics and a child’s remedy, all presented in garbled copy.
A fragment from The Weekly Historian recalls Congress debating substitutes for intoxicants to curb soldiers’ appetites. It notes President's view on such sessions as advisable. Russian troop ships guard the Bosporus to shield Turkish and Greek provinces from French influence.
A sprawling digest traces political alliances among England Russia Austria and France Prussia with tensions near Texas and U S naval moves off Mexico. It recalls Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe and battles, Sherman Hood and Farragut in the Civil War era, and a California bond decision aiding the Central Pacific Railroad. Also notes gold discoveries near Carroll Montana and Montgomery County Maryland and a balloon voyage ending in Port Huron after a 24 hour flight.
Twenty years ago quaratine declared on several Illinois counties due to pleuro pneumonia among cattle. Porte St Martina Theater in Paris sold an interest for $10,000 to secure Sarah Bernhardt for an American tour. Kitty acres of timber yard buildings in Cleveland burned for about $4,000,000. Wall Street gossip claimed the Vanderbilt family lost $600,000 in speculative setbacks within months.
Ten years ago George W. Peck was nominated a third time by the Democrats of Wit donkin for Governor. Jaibor day was observed for the fret, a legal holiday throughout the country. One hundred thirty four unidentified clothing of the forest fire were buried at Hinckley, Mion. Fires were threatening Ashfind and Wibe burne, Wis.
The article lauds President Diaz for modernizing Mexico including a national school system free of sectarian influence, a regenerated capital with major civil works, and expanded harbors and railways. It notes a 12,000 mile railway network, debt reduction, and growing fiscal stability alongside a claim of Cascarrets being the world’s leading remedy.
A correspondence fragment from 1901 features Mrs Newage as an emancipated householder, with mentions of a servant and Piso's Cures for Consumption to be used at home. The note cites John W. Henry of Fostoria Ohio and includes Hawthorne’s aphorism about sharing experience. A remark warns that peril stone extracts rank among poisons.
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