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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1902
Page
8
A fragmented verse predicts married life by month, tracing hopeful outcomes from January to December. It suggests uplifting fortunes in some months and hardship in others, with romantic imagery tied to seasons and celebrations. The piece ends reflecting on a woman's life and the turning of fate.
In a snowbound studio, Eleana battles love and art after Harolds long absence. As she faces a triumph, a painting titled Repentance reveals a lone woman in an October wood. The work hints that love may return or fade, while the artist confronts inner reckoning and the price of genius.
Eleanor sinks into repentance after painting a “Repentance” scene and a midnight vigil. At dawn Harold arrives, unmasked and compelling, tearing her from the studio as the rising sun over the snowy world floods the threshold with new light.
A Washington Indiana Press piece argues that feigning or enduring illness can become a pleasurable escape from labor. It compares sickness to quaint idleness, praising the comfort of pampering and the freedom from ambition, while noting the pull of returning to work is irksome. The writer quotes a familiar sentiment about enjoying invalidism.
A fatigued young woman at a suburban New Jersey function observes a scene as a guest arrives apologizing for lateness. He greets the hostess, explains that his brother is unavailable, and says they could not both attend, joking about a coin toss to decide who came.
An elderly traveler from Arkansas offers a Kansas farm near Kincaid for sale at 13,600 dollars. He appears poor and weary as he and a rattling wagon linger at Mr. McAdams’ fence while McAdams tests the bid in a wary, amused exchange.
Uncle Bill argues with an editor about superstition and the luck of numbers like 13 and 18. He recalls Seth Wiggers who chose 13 on his telephone and riffs on misfortune linked to 13, 12, and 18, insisting luck changes nothing and superstition only breeds itself.
New York Sun recounts Senator Vest's humorous hunting memory. A London hunter arrives with dogs and a bold claim about scents. A chase spurs from a hill with holes and quivering dogs, ending in a chaotic scramble toward the wagon as the Englishman and dogs flee the prairie.
A detailed summary of radium, its tiny mass, immense energy, and strange effects. The piece explains how radium emits streams of particles at extraordinary speeds, alters electroscope discharge, browns glass, and converts oxygen to ozone. It notes Becquerel’s name and compares radium’s rays to cathode and Roentgen X rays, suggesting potential endless, powerful illumination with safety concerns.
A former president’s cowboy friend pushes to the rear platform to share that he had followed advice and married, noting six children. The tale sits amid references to strenuous life and a man who is a walking encyclopedia in areas other than banking.
J Hay Brown of Loins caster Pa is mentioned for the Bux brief court bench when Justice Shitas resigns. He is now associate justice of the all supreme court of Pennsylvania with over 18 years remaining of a 20 year term. The oldest Irving pioneer of Oregon is William Abernethy of Dora Coos county, who traveled from Titois to New York then around the Horn to the Columbia mouth in June 1840. Abernethy helped build the first exw mill in Oregon and George Gray Barnard is noted for sculpture at Harrisburg and a Cur tin statue order in Bellefonte Pa. Lord Coleridge, K. C., represents a notable legal family. The Cardiff celebration for the Marduis of Bute closes with Seamen's hospital plans and funds. A mica plant in Ottawa, employing 160 now, aims for 400. US mica production in 1901 totaled 300000 pounds valued at $98000, with large Indian imports. Smallpox shows in 1900–1901 with rising cases and deaths. Ireland's Drumglass burial ground and Dungannon castle grounds are discussed, with Croker’s dairy farming noted. A London dispatch covers Croker and Tammany politics, and Persian literature developments with Nadreddhine and the Shah.
The conde bureau reports rising median ages from 1830 to 1900 with whites aging faster than the colored population. In 1900 the total median age was 22.8, whites 23.4, colored 18.7, while 1880 figures were 22.4 for whites and 18.8 for colored.
An advertisement offers $100 reward for proof that Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. The claims state the medicine acts constitutionally by affecting blood and mucous surfaces to destroy disease foundations and strengthen the body. Address F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio for testimonials. circulating by druggists The Hall's Family Pills also are mentioned.
Civil engineer H B Carpenter reports the southern line of Utah to Arizona spans 277 miles through a desert with dramatic canyons. Landmarks aid future location, notably State Line Butte and Tower Peak near the Colorado river, each towering above the plain and marking the boundary.
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