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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
6
The Aero Club of America plans three main cross continental routes for a national prize race beginning in Heaag. The contest aims to promote mail-carrying by aeroplanes, involve aviation corps for the National Guard and naval militia, and demonstrate feasibility across 180 rated places.
Readable portions describe fires and accidents including a baby missing and later found alive, a window sash accident injuring a farmer, a fatal fall at a grain elevator, and various local events. Names include Jesse J. Kenny, A C Maden, H H Dunham, John Lange, Shenandoah and Mitchell county towns, plus brief notes on postal gains and census figures.
A local agricultural and educational section notes a large fundraising drive with donations totaling $300,000 including a $25,000 gift from W. Payne for Moringside College. It mentions a new concert trip to San Francisco, a Bloomington Boone contractor case, and various area civic updates including church construction and a storm lake power plant transfer. The report weaves community notices with brief obituaries, local business moves, and social quotes from residents.
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