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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1902
Page
5
Iowas small towns announce sports plans and civic developments. Elkader will have a baseball squad this season while Volga City backs a strong team. Decorah orders a new extension ladder for the Hook and Ladder Co, and the Waukon Republican expands its pages to seven columns to meet advertising demand.
Elgin may field a baseball team this season as local businessmen commit to funding. The ball park is ready and last year’s uniforms suffice. needs three outside players and some funds. Two businessmen offer fifty dollars each, total starting capital around one hundred dollars to begin community support. Wake up to the coming season and enjoy exciting games as Rocky Mountain Tea is advertised.
A large Arlington vote approved a twenty year franchise for an avaryline gas lighting company. The town also sees routine local news including Burlingham selling his Oelwein drugstore and moving into insurance work. A Burlington rail accident near Delwain caused minor injuries as cars derailed without serious harm. Various satirical quotes and editorials appear amid the notices.
Decorah teachers attending the institute watched a complete wireless telegraphy apparatus set up in the High School Laboratory. The device, guaranteed to operate 75 feet, was received recently for Prof. Wattars in the physics department and proved functional though no messages were sent. It showed transmission through plaster walls and illustrated Marconi’s wireless telegraphy principles, a credit to school management.
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