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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1911
Page
2
An advertisement column lists low rates for jobbing printing and advertising in the Riginssee paper. It notes monthly and advance payment terms, offering a wide assortment of printing styles and declaring continuous display advertisements until discontinued.
The Elgin region features farm sales and produce ads including Rhode Island Red eggs and potatoes. Local residents report visits, travel to Decorah, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Waterloo, plus a mining of labor, marriages, birthdays, and a theater outing at the Elgin opera house. A fatal train incident near Waterloo and a Muscatine factory strike are noted among community events and concerns.
State Game Warden Lincoln says the release of 7000 Hungarian partridges begun January 15 will be finished by April 15. He notes the birds are doing well, as are the ring-neck pheasants liberated last year.
The bill to pay convicts in the penitentiaries 50 cents a day for their labor on good behavior was killed in the senate Friday on the theory that it gave convicts, already under penalty, too much consideration.
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