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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1906
Page
5
A collision and overturned carriage left Mrs Knight and Miah Kniel injured and baggage lost. Fatalities including engineer and fireman were reported among train workers in the smoker. Mrs C L Shaffer broke an arm after slipping at home while tending poultry. Dr Fothergill treated her. The Schori families enjoyed a river picnic. Winnie Smith returned from Elkader.
A mixed Elgin Iowa notice page invites parishioners to Friday prayers Sunday school and Epworth League services at 7 15 pm 8 00 pm and the Fourth Quarterly Conference on August 6 with Dr T E Fleming presiding Local ads mention a farm sale a small livestock listing a L C A meeting August 8 and a health testimonial for Dr Kings New Discovery in Waco Texas plus blackberry sales and Rock Island railroad ticket offers from Elgin to Chicago valid August 4 5 6 and a Kennedy laxative ad
Hans Berson recounts a long sea voyage on the La Provence from Cedar Rapids to New York and across the Atlantic to Havre Paris Basel. He describes ship details, daily papers, Swiss companions, and experiences aboard with family. The letter blends travel impressions and notes on Paris Basel and a brief political update from Des Moines.
News reaches of a wreck at Sand Point Idaho involving Miss Verle Kniel and her grandparents Mr and Mrs J W Knight of West Union. The party rode from Whitefish Montana to Seattle Washington when the engine derailed after emerging from a mountain tunnel, plunging into a lake as cars toppled from a trestle, though the passenger coach remained on the embankment.
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