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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
8
Mr Jimso habitually attended meetings and was late. His wife fretted and retired. He returned after ten minutes, claiming they had been discussing the real benefits of fresh air. She retorted you can lecture tomorrow night from experience and slammed the window.
A tale set near a captain's residence shows a wife and husband separated by camp but maintaining contact through handkerchief waving. A nearby officer questions the signal routine, and the captain reveals it is part of a lighthearted signal-code practice amid their strained circumstances.
A collage of vintage ad copy and quips from New York Times and Judge features promotional language for Cuticura products, rustic botanical imagery, and satire about urban kitchenettes. The notes mix shampoo slogans with humorous lines about onions, mealettes, and sketching club motoring.
The Boston Transcript reports a domestic dispute where new neighbors seek to borrow a lawn mower on the Sabbath. Bridget and Mistresa clash over shared duties and religious observance, highlighting tensions in a quiet street.
A quirky, repetitive ad style touts Denlon's Coffee as beneficial for health. The text then turns to a social maxim about women lowering themselves to admire men.
Guidelines urge liberal feeding to develop strong heavy horses with excellent market value. Emphasizes early protein needs, balanced rations by age, and allowing the colt to exercise. Recommends accessible hay and grain for dams and young foals, plus a mix of three parts oats and one part bran as a base feed.
An old dairy practice describes dehorning calves with caustic potash or soda. A few days old, the skin over the horn button is scraped to redness and the caustic applied, targeting only the button. Outcomes vary with treatment intensity, as shown by three heifers: one hornless, one horned, and one with a horn only partly affected.
A Kannass Experiment Station note by George A Beams outlines poisoned bran mash to control black crickets. It details mixing bran paris green molasses water and orange peel, with bait placed behind furniture, and warns to use poison carefully and safely.
A Wisconsin Agricultural illustration shows a bottle adapted for shipping bees by placing a light frame inside. Bees are gently smoked to calm them and allow safe transfer into the bottle. The method aims to reduce stress and escape risk during transport.
A paper funnel guides bees into a bottle or jar, with a middle piece fastening the arma and cross pieces adjusted for position. Physicians often use bee poison for certain purposes and employ bees in this method. This hint aids those shipping bees to apiaries or other beekeepers.
A farm practical note praises keeping twenty-five to fifty sheep to clean weeds, briars, volunteer grass, and idle growth in fence rows and stock areas. Move sheep through pasture weekly in summer and fall to trim waste growth before it seeds. Change of pasture benefits sheep health and suppresses overgrowth.
Practical tips emphasize feeding and care as vital to pig quality. Key ideas include providing ample feed and attentive care, ensuring young pigs have dry housing and sunlight, starting feeding early and sustaining growth, keeping clean fresh water available, and recognizing that higher sow milk output accelerates pig growth.
The time to tip black raspberry canes is near. When new growth bends to the ground, bury each tip a few inches and secure with a stone peg or dirt. Next spring most tips root, allowing new plants to be separated from the parent and moved elsewhere.
A fragmented 19th century column blends Emerson on love's social power with a Universalist note on peace. It contrasts love’s transcendent promise with world leaders’ cynical calculations, then quips on warlikeness and a cartoonish exchange about liking melons cut by large corporations.
An item touts Hoy's Hair Wealth as a harmless method to restore natural color and hide gray hairs, claiming air action and a special element. It promises refunds if druggists fail and markets through drug stores or direct with dealer details. Also mentions dandruff relief and scalp nourishment.
Hiram Waybacker taunts city slickers who claim to have tar show and the sole German submarine in captivity. He jokes he would keep them from being lone and talks of shells and pea to confuse them, in a Real Sport style.
Mrs Bored declares she is not hungry as she sits with her husband in a Philadelphia Record caption. He tells her to wait patiently for the waiter to bring food, forecasting hunger by then.
Fragmentary line reads a playful verse urging to drink Denmon's Coffee for health. It mentions an insulated electric wire and a distracting rhyme about battering a song in a heave rather than two in the flat upstairs. No clear event or people identified.
A witty exchange notes the War Department sculpturing an army and questions the model used. A lighthearted line wonders if patience belongs on a monument while a family plans a campout and mother’s cooking on a vacation.
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