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From the Archives
The following are articles from the files of the ECHS Archives. Check this section monthly for fun and interesting reading from Ellis County's past. We reprint the articles exactly as they were in the original source so often the spelling and grammar does not meet modern standards. This is done intentionally to give the reader a better sense of the historical context of the document.
ELLIS COUNTY NEWS
September 11, 1909
Had A Narrow Escape.
John Staab bad a narrow escape from death on Wednesday of last week when he got his clothing caught in the set screw of a line shaft in the Hays Milling Co's elevator. Every thing he had on was torn from his person, except his shoes.
He was doing some repair work at the time the accident occurred. The set screw is not protected by a collar as are those in the mill and when John leaned over too far he was caught and thrown against some spouting just back of the screw which prevented him from being carried around by the shaft. This alone saved his life.
His clothing was rolled up between his body and the screw at each revolution and this saved him from being seriously burned. At that he is nursing a number of bad bruises.
Ellis County News
July 29, 1920
EXTRA CHAIRS
Many Ellis county homes are in need of more chairs and are putting off their purchase to to purpose. Our stock contains both utility and comfort patterns. Come and see them.
HAVEMANN'S
Fine Funeral Goods Motor Hearse in Connection
F. Havemann
Gus Havemann
Licensed Embalmers.
THE ELLIS COUNTY NEWS
December 17, 1909
The Beef Diet For Consumptives.
The best results are secured from beef and hot Water diet by dieting the patient for twenty-four hours, accompanying this with one-half pint of hot water four times daily to wash out, stomach, intestines and kidneys, and etc. Follow with giving four ounces of lean, broiled beef each meal and continue drinking the hot water not less than an hour before meals and not less than half an hour before retiring for the night. Increase the quantity of beef to be eaten as the indications show it to be assimilated and increase the amount of hot water until one pint is drunk before meals and before retiring. Never drink more at time of eating than one-half pint of hot water tea or coffee the two later without the addition of milk or cream. In the treatment of this and kindred diseases, sugar and sweets in all forms should be avoided. No other food should be consumed until patient shows signs of improvement and vegetables of all sorts must be tabooed entirely.
If the instructions be faithfully followed, the patient should within a few weeks be able to increase the amount of beef eaten up to one and one-half pounds a day and within three months extend the change of diet so as to include raw or broiled oysters—two to six at a meal—with lemon juice (never vinegar), salt pepper to suit taste. The brown meats of poultry and wild game lean bits of mutton, deer, a small portion of broiled or boiled fish together with a small stick of crisp celery may be resorted to occasionally, but the main reliance must be placed on the broiled beef and hot water these other foods to be taken as relishes for occasional meal and not in addition to beef—Physical Culture.
Ellis County News
August 18, 1927
Mrs. Sarah Fields and Miss Ernestine Fields expect to leave Friday for Junction City for a visit with friends and relatives. From Junction City, Miss Fields will go to Beacon, New York to visit with Mrs. Charles Storm before going to Rockhill, South Carolina where she will teach music this winter. Mrs. Field will be gone a week.
Ellis County News
February 10, 1927
ISSUE NEW DIRECTORY
The News will print the new spring telephone directory for the United Telephone Company within the next two weeks. A number of changes in arrangement have been
made in the directory with the object of improving the appearance of the book typographically.
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