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Spectacles and dry goods at Capper Shaffer and more
Local ads note Capper and Shaffer offering a wide selection of salt and dry goods while Finke’s Drug Store promotes finest spectacles. Frost damages Iowa corn and Elkader hosts a Fair with Palro Bros act Fun at the Mill. Rock Island workers raise a water tank for stock cars. Various notices include a ten pound boy birth, barber shop change, and moving of homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finke's
Capper & Shaffer
Capper & Shaffer's
Palro Bros
Elkader
Rock Island Railway
Schori
Kniel & Rubger's
Beaure
Balthazar Luchsinger
W. Ellis
Doud
Independence
Murry Kiple House
T. Lewis
Elgin
B. Sova
Sanz
Addreas
L. T. Grout
Iowa
Finke’s
Bligs Benson
Davenport Woolen Millis Co