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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
8
A poetic piece extols the man who loves a joke as a force for kindness and human fellowship. The speaker vows to honor a joker seeking laughter over creed, rank, or wealth, praising openness, shared life, and compassion across social bounds.
In a sunlit studio, artist Hustace Morley debates fame and fidelity with Hortense Grace. She presses him about his moods, portraits, and a past romance as a promised marriage hangs on his next move. A chance remark hints that he must visit a former love who remains unmarried.
Hortense urges Eustace to visit the woman of his dreams despite poverty and risk. He worries about money and obligations yet vows to go and perhaps return changed, while she taunts him with doubt and power over his fate. He contemplates walking all night to reach the affair and fate.
A St Louis Republic feature recounts H G Spafford, Chicago lawyer and Presbyterian elder, losing his fortune in the 1873 panic. After tragedy at sea, he wrote the hymn It Is Well With My Soul with music by P P Bliss, a testament to faith amid loss.
A historical note warns potatoes contain the toxin solanine, especially when green or stored damp and sprouting. Old potatoes used in the German army caused headaches vomiting and other symptoms due to high solanine levels.
A London piece portrays Dumas as a brilliant yet rough writer with no formal schooling yet a lively mind and social access. It recalls a humorous episode where he cooked a lavish lunch at Gudin’s, transforming three Devonshire turkeys with truffles and delicacies and inviting Albani to sing, earning the tag Alexandre le Granda.
The Philadelphia Ledger recalls how England and Scotland mandated a distinctive two tone dress for bankrupts from 1606 to 1688. Bankrupts were publicly exhibited in town markets for two hours, then banned from debt recovery until debts were paid. By 1688 the rule narrowed to fraud cases or smugglers, and the practice faded as public sentiment opposed such penalties.
A historic note recalls the narrow escape of President Pierce and the death of his accompanying detective. The incident echoes a January 1958 railroad wreck involving President-elect Franklin Pierce. The piece discusses caution against dangers beyond assassination risks and references other era exposures and public notices.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears the Toledo firm will pay one hundred dollars for cash for every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice advertises internally taken Haile Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, with notary A. W. Gleason and a note that Benster W. A. Clark bought the Henela Independent to make it his personal organ.
A scattered column notes General Coxey turning from marching to training an octopus. It mentions Secretary Wilson not offered Town Agricultural College presidency, a Massachusetts man gifting verge to the King of England, and varied items from naval secretary Moody umpiring a Mass. baseball game to a Cherokee chief’s death and other faded anecdotes.
A young man formerly of St Louis, now in the county, tests a counterfeit twenty at Kinlock race track. He wins a race, cashes a ticket, then destroys the fake note in a saloon. He reflects on honesty and luck, wondering if he is truly virtuous. No one reports loss of sleep over the affair.
Buffalo Express analyzes a bulletin from the American Iron Steel Association showing U S Steel controlled 43.9 percent of 1901 iron output, 60 percent of rolled products and wire, while independent plants held the rest. The piece argues the trust is less formidable than critics claim and notes the industry may shift in a low mood period as outsiders’ modern plants push competition.
Baltimore American notes that age is now an incidental detail. It cites examples from Gladstone to Leo XIII showing vigor in old age and youth in younger figures. The piece argues insight and energy, tempered by experience, define valuable leaders, not mere years.
New York Sun reports about 15,000,000 acres of northwestern Nebraska poorly suited for tillage. The state and federal bodies studied the sand hills and found potential for forestry. Pine species from Scotland, Austria, and jack pines were planted in Holt County. The trees show rapid growth and are projected to yield lumber as they mature, with hundreds of thousands of acres deemed suitable for planting under similar conditions.
Senator Clare says Mr Heinze must not own the Montana Supreme Court while Heinze demands Senator Clark cannot own it. The piece hints at an unprecedented situation where no one owns the Montana Supreme Court.
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