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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1904
Page
8
A sprawling piece discusses fowl breeds versus the barred variety, home mixing of fertilizers, and practical farming notes. It covers potato use in hog feed with boilings and balanced rations, plus a combined hoe and rake tool for small farms and general gardening. The sections reference Indianapolis News and exchanges on farming practices.
A period piece catalog snippet promotes manure spreaders as labor savers for winter operation, detailing driver control and even manure distribution. It also describes a durable 14 foot farm gate design with a balanced top bar, stone weight, and post mounting. Market notes discuss hog type uniformity influencing pork prices and buyer preferences across markets. Agricultural equipment and supplies, including plows, harrows, planters, diggers, weeders, and crates, are listed as essential for potato farming.
Instructions for building a wooden-handled hoe with a center hole, spikings, and iron edge. Then farm notes on soil, season planning, stock care, breeding, orchard management, bees, and milking practices. Also advice on manure, muddy yards, and drying wet fields for crop health.
A sweeping Iowa chronicle covers Anamosa and nearby towns, detailing violent crime from a man who killed his wife and himself to a young Ames man injured by a fall into railroad danger. It notes burglaries, a spate of home break-ins in Waterloo, frost damage to northern corn, and multiple local incidents including court actions, embezzlement charges, and legal decisions. plus agricultural notes, school and public notices, and ongoing weather effects across the state.
Burglars entered the Victor post office and drilled two holes in the top of the safe but fled without taking valuables. They departed town with Sherlock's horse and buggy, left ten miles north of Victor, somewhat worn.
A thief entered the Rock Island freight house in Atlantic during a momentary absence of cashier C. H. Miller and escaped with about $1,040. Other notes report a fire destroying a railroad water tank at New London, church plans in Coon Rapids, and multiple local incidents across Des Moines and surrounding towns.
The Republican candidate Charles Warren Kalibanka accepts the nomination with a New York letter of acceptance. The document outlines party principles from the Chicago platform, discusses public finance, tariff policy, and foreign affairs including Panama, Canada, and European-Asian treaties. It lauds the administration’s Panama treaty approach and emphasizes cautious tariff revision and unity within the party.
Census figures indicate rising divorce in the United States. Five married men per 1,000 are now divorced, challenging the belief that early marriage prevents divorce. The report notes soldiers and sailors lead inconstancy, with hosts, actors, and showmen following, and highlights growing numbers of married women in gainful occupations.
Premier Balfour and Whenda of Tord Curzon are cited in light of future influence. Herbert Gladstone, aged 350, sits in the House of Commons. William Waldorf Astor pledges $1,000,000 in Broadway property. Auctions in Paris reveal prices from 45 cents to $8.40. Gey and Gey’s circle discuss insurrection funds in London while a British defense official governs Victoria. A nurse of Paderewski era finds two Viennese talents. Vorater marks fifty years since his medical doctorate. The coronation portrait of Mr Hughes is gifted to the capital. Tord and Lady Roberta plan a South African visit as a lieutenant falls in Tugela clashes.
A hundred years ago a great hurricane swept through the Southern States destroying the cotton crop in South Carolina and causing widespread damage. The text notes a secretary of war leaving for Algiers with gifts for the ruler and a formal demand for renunciation of arms, while an American paper debated retaining New Orleans and selling the Louisiana purchase to Spain.
A window into the past notes major events from seventy five years ago including Baltimore’s first public school, an artist’s beeswax preservation tip, royal marriage preparations, a sawmill start in Pittsburg, and protests over Sandwich Islands annexation. It also recalls battles fleets, Florence Nightingale’s arrival, and other historical markers across nations, plus a later period recounting draft changes, political shifts, and disasters.
Ten years ago forestees riged around Benn four years with great loss of Ifo. Judge Gibbony entered Judgment plaster against the Wisilingami Ce tle Feeding Company. Levi P. Mortos nominated Governor by New York Republicans. Announcement at Tal of ratification of the British Chinese treaty.
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