The Old Hotel Echoes in Elgin History and Loss
Max Thoma's poem invokes the Old Hotel torn down, a 1852 landmark in Elgin, Iowa, once a symbol of the town's gift to the community alongside the river and bluffs. The 1868 school reports and bank ledger entries follow, detailing Elgin High School attendance, tardiness, and room rosters, plus Citizens State Bank assets and liabilities as of April 1808, with local notices, marriage licenses, and farming ads interspersed.
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A fragmented 19th century column mixes war zeal with local notices. It urges patriotic unity in support of Cuba intervention, notes the Coaline factory relocation and sale, and records visits, studies, and community shifts involving McKellar, Meyers, Hanson, Doty, Chay, Quiglay, and Hummel among others.
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