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Elgin Bazaar Offers Hats, Shoes and Real Estate Ads
A flood of local ads lists Capper & Shafer and Capper Shaffer stores offering hats and dry goods, Max Ratfauf’s barber shop for shampoo, and various real estate and farm goods. Several notices report moves, sales, and town happenings including a Thursday baseball game Elgin vs Postville and community events at the Elkader fair.
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Elgin
Postville
Thoradey
Ava
Blader Fair
Milley & Miller
Glermont
Crandall & Dean Tuagday
Chris Milley & Son
Clermont
Iowa
Origas
Capper & Shaffer's
Fred Ernst
Forbes Addition
Wit Cooley
Borg Glything
Ralph Lehman
I. A. Oswald
Mrs Berger
U. B