Elgin Iowa Ad Says M O Kulien Prop
An advertiser in Elgin Iowa lists M O Kulien as proprietor with date April 1 1897.
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1897
Page
5
An advertiser in Elgin Iowa lists M O Kulien as proprietor with date April 1 1897.
City leaders urge Elgin merchants to lure farmers and traders with low prices broad goods and strong town promotion. They condemn hypocrisy by rival towns and call for united effort to outpace Green and others while noting Cedar Rapids Republican airship anecdotes as curious local color.
Marshal Culver arrested three tough fellows Monday evening in the Great Western yards. Revolvers knives a lady's gold watch and other items were found on their persons. They appeared before Justice Bent ley who sentenced them to thirty days in the county jail. They were taken to West Union Tuesday. Authorities seek to learn where the trio procured the articles. One revolver was loaded and would have been used if not seized in time.
A firm sold a piston valve cornet to a young man near Minneapolis. He asked how to fix stroking valves. A physician advised saliva as a remedy, warning oil would gum the mechanism. The buyer sent twenty five cents for a bottle of saliva, noting the store did not stock it.
A horse stolen from John Smith’s Oran township farm was ridden about nine miles before the thief took a harness and buggy from J. P. Baxter’s yard near West Gate. Sheriff Hockings pursued through muddy roads, apprehending the suspect in Mason City on April 11 with all items. The young man is jailed in West Union awaiting penitentiary term.
Washington advocates coordinated measures to stamp out hog cholera with governors of Tennessee and Iowa, sending agency experts to affected counties. New Hampton raises funds for a first class baseball team as Webster City reports army worms. Waukon post office thieves Edward Quinn and Frank Cusack, both residents, stole money order funds totaling 180 before capture and transfer to the Dubuque jail pending grand jury action.
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