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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1895
Page
6
A mosaic of humor and oddities from Parson's Week, Punch and Judge clips. Vignettes include folk remedies from Staffordshire and Canaries, a gardener beggar’s quip, a slow speaker’s undertaker joke, romantic flirtations, and Uncle Allen’s misplaced peach gift.
Fragmentary OCR text presents a domestic scene involving Mrs Hashleigh the boarding house keeper and Mr Firstfloor. The narrator notes a single fault leading to a departure, with playful antique language and misspelled phrases indicating a humorous domestic vignette. Names and a setting hint at a social interaction in a boarding house.
A jumble of overheard exchanges and quips features a doctor advising restraint on daily indulgence, a husband entangled with a gun incident, a boastful bachelor, references to Milton Brown’s influenza death, and a physician's puzzled remark about banks, all recounted amid satirical snapshots from Judy and Indianapolis Journal wit.
A fragment from the Obleago Tribune features Pieckie Sorione and Old Gent in a whimsical exchange about readiness for fortune, with a child interrupting and a playful reference to visits and mornings.
Dialogue fragments show a comic misnaming between Mary and Bridget, a cook’s quip about calling the child, a postponed visit involving a wheel, a boast about a yacht, and a seaside observation about moral town attitudes as reported by Life and Toledo Blade.
Tarmer Pete addresses boarders with care yet warns against reckless conduct. He notes a local mine explosion in Montana and mentions a sharp rise in incidents from the Truth What Sent It up, Manhattan. The speaker expresses relief at having boarders while cautioning about dangerous behavior and sudden developments.
Prof Bailey reports on experiments using carbon filament electric light to illuminate plants. Growth responds dramatically with earlier blooming and unusual habits, as lettuce doubles in size versus sunlit plants, tulips deepen color briefly, and many specimens bend toward the light showing rapid adaptation potential for extended artificial illumination.
A collection of brief notes describes inventions including a disinfection tube for telephone mouthpieces with a heated amorphous material layer and ring shaped electrodes, an electric car brake with motors driving the blower, an electric elevator control system with switches at each landing, a magnet based brake shoe, and an electroplating improvement using a platinum chloride bath with a mixed metal anode for depositing alloys.
Royal Baking Powder is asserted as the purest and strongest raising agent, with government and state chemists backing its superiority. Consumers are urged to persist in buying Royal despite competing alum-based powders, due to its finer, higher quality results.
A little girl in a recent children's concert scolds the audience for an encore while helping to sing a chorus. She declares on the way home that no mistakes were made yet the audience demanded another song. Tid
A new dry kiln process for cypress shingles dries the material in a moist atmosphere. The outer faces stay damp while the interior heats to vaporize moisture, preventing uneven expansion and avoiding checks or warping. Shingles reportedly emerge roof ready with no damage.
The New York Sun profiles Lyndyer Tardy a petty con man known for “sympathy gags.” Aged as a street performer, he mimics criminal acts to extort money, including a bogus bomb scare with calf liver, chaotic post offices, and repeated thefts from cable cars, all while charming onlookers in ragged attire and a distinctive straw hat.
Patsy Wow Damn Until Hit by a discharge of birds shot near Buffalo. A boy known as a silent "dummy fisher man" finally speaks after a duck hunting accident loosened his tongue. He shouts Ducks in a natural tone, then gradually learns more words though speech remains limited. He later undergoes surgery to remove buckshot from his shoulder and returns home, still mostly silent.
A New York article recounts Emme Abbott as a young singer who debuted for a church event, paid $100 plus a $10 tenor fee, with a $110 check in her name. Stage patron Mr. Lake mentored her, praising her as Honest Little Em, and financed her rise by arranging tours and housing on Fifth Avenue. He remained a fatherly friend and supporter, often organizing trips to hear her in nearby cities.
In Saint Paul on September 5, Mr A G Highton explains that earlier accusations from Duluth newspapers were exaggerated and not criminal. He details a drunken episode during a Portland to Minnesota trip, stating he showed no criminal intent and seeks to clear himself from sensational press coverage and public suspicion.
Isabel A. Malion reports in the September issue on rough black cloths with extra large guita-porelin buttons, double buttonholes, and simulated buttonholes. Blue heavy smooth fabric and plain silks favor fittings. Hussar braids, velvet trim, and Louis Quatorze waistcoats with gold silver buttons appear in varied coat styles.
The article notes Parisian kitchens cited as models are rejected by the Society of French Cooks. Dr Regeard highlighted dampness poor lighting ventilation causing rheumatism varicose veins hernia and alcohol abuse among cooks. Proposals include kitchens ten by ten by ten feet with separate bedrooms water closets larders and sculleries and safer materials for floors walls and doors.
A Buffalo physician announces free distribution of 500000 copies of The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser after selling 680000 copies at 1.50 each. Readers mail 21 one cent stamps to cover postage for a single volume bound in paper. The edition mirrors the price edition but with cloth binding replaced by paper.
Royal etiquette shows two styles of visiting cards for the prince of Wales Albert Edward and Le Prince de Galles. Gallic cards are common for monarchs and many use native names. The Duke of Argyll uses The prefix The. Napoleon’s card was long and glossy due to a silver-impregnated stock.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts hosted an Imperial Geographical Society party at Holly Lodge. The eighty-year-old hostess traveled grounds in a dog chaise drawn by a pony, entered by a footman guiding the pony. The unique conveyance aided her fatigue and mirrored a royal custom.
Knowledge extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant, effective laxative that cleanses the system and relieves constipation without weakening the organs. It is marketed by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold by druggists in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles, with the product name clearly printed on the package.
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