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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
2
Local notices urge early Christmas shopping and promote bargains from Bergs Montogomerys Capper’s Drug Store and Finke’s Drug Store. Mentions OTC goods including kerosene 10c per gallon and various sales of live stock and property in Elgin Iowa with names Capper Doud Knudtson and Ra ypor.
Advertisements fill the local column while police report a Dubuque mock marriage case. Descriptions cover job printing, poultry buyers, iron buys, Santa at Berg's, vacuum cleaners, and eight hour pay protests. Des Moines Des Moines area events include smallpox quarantine at Cassady school and a Newton divorce. Thirty thousand swimmers taught by Corsan. Shorty Runyan captured for board bill. New York Christmas trip claimants. Decorah Posten incorporation noted. Hazel Immer, 16, and C L Gilchrist face investigation after a mock wedding.
Weatherwax Quartette performs as Berg's store markets many gift ideas. A bustling local notice mentions cement and lumber supplies from Schori Benson, plus visitors across towns. Faded lines reference social visits in West Union and Fayette area, with small ads for fur scarfs and pies at Laures Campiens Final.
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