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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1911
Page
4
A sale notes payments are cash only and discounts apply to former prices. No due bills or brass checks accepted, despite premiums paid. Items, including poultry and eggs, remain valid only at their prior pricing.
Clermont residents noted as Chas Olson, Thos Sheehan, Kittie Groth and others traveled to Elgin West Union and Des Moines areas. New cement fence post plant to open by Anglo-Iron Cement Fence Post Co. Cedar Rapids. Clermont chosen on Milwaukee to Sioux City auto route via McGregor Postville Clermont West Union New Hampton Mason City Ft Dodge and Sioux City.
Concord Mich543 A user named Thos Ariss praises Dr King’s New Discovery as the best cough and cold cure he has used in 20 years. The ad claims the remedy treats lagrip pe asthma hay fever croup quinsy and sore lungs. Price 50c and 1 trial bottle free guaranteed by The City Drug Store during Halstengon’s Clearing Sale.
Mrs Amos White visits son George in Elgin while Ruth Neff returns from Magen City. Mrs W M Dickinson stops in from Elgin for two days with Mrs M M Sanborn. J M Barnhouse suffer s paralysis on the way home and remains ill. Glenn Kinney and family visit West Union. Kinney to return home, Mrs Kinney stays through September. Beatrice Creamery Co closes its West Union branch after four years under John Berkey. Japanese ball players will not visit town. schedule conflicts. A brother and sister from Oelwein are jailed. another brother visits and is jailed on the same charge. Moody the prisoner is rebooked to Oelwein. Noah Falk stays in West Bend. declines Argo Gazette job seeking mercantile work. potential future success noted.
The text promotes Electric Bitters as a blood purifier that strengthens the body and combats skin and systemic ailments. It cites a testimonial from C. T. Budahn of Tracy California praising the product for improving digestion, liver and kidney function, and overall health. Sold at Sweat The City Drug Store.
Miss Alvina Uecker visits Elgin while Wm A Walther family hosts relatives. Fred Schultz and wife from Grand Meadow visit Mrs Adam Walther. Mr and Mrs Robert Peters and Chester Peake visit relatives in the city. Irena Boyer returns from Elgin and stays at the Democrat office with her sister Mrs Wm A Walther. Fred Eggiman kills an old wolf near the farm. Atty V T Price makes a round of Littleport Gunoder and Elgin by automobile. Leonard and Nielson buy a large churn to produce 600 pounds of butter per batch. Local youths urged to attend school or work. no drones in the industrial hive. Albert Thompson and Olen Christenson married at Hotel Bayless. Elkader Normal School plans eye enrollment and a two year course starting Sept 4 with diploma qualifying to teach.
E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton Maine boldly claims Bucklen’s Arnica Salve removes sting from burns and soothes sores boils and sprains. He touts its healing power and calls it unequaled. Available for 25 cents at The City Drug Store.
A witty lament contrasts prices for life and death from clothing to graves. It notes shaving costs ten cents while death saves you money, coats at twenty five dollars versus a hundred for a wooden gue, and grave digs at twenty cents an hour versus four times that for planting You. The piece highlights theater carriage at two dollars and cemetery ride at five, saloon brawls at fifty cents versus embalmer fees of twelve dollars sixty cents, ending with a cheeky remark on many things still priced high despite the world’s absurd costs.
Notes mention Dr King’s New Life Pills praised by Paul Mathulka of Buffalo for curing constipation headache and indigestion at The City Drug. Also update on bank work progress and gospel meetings at the German Baptist church with large nightly attendance. A riddle asks how many children shared a decedent’s fortune so each received equal amounts.
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