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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
2
Real estate notice offers farm rental listing services in West Union with abstracts and title fixes. Provides farm purchase options, loan on security, and town properties for sale or rent with installment plans. Encourages planting plans for fall, rest for families, and practical steps to secure abstract and financing.
The Elgin Echo lists advertising rules for the local column with rates per insertion and monthly payment terms. It notes display and local adverts run consecutively until discontinued and promotes printing services and jobbing material. Subscriptions are offered with one year and eight months in advance.
Local notes from Elgin Iowa report J H Bower a veterinarian visiting Elgin and a string of business visitors including Mel Kobler Horace Yack and Frank Morrison. Mentions Baldwin home painting, plumbing work on a new Baldwin home, church and lodge activities, Christmas candy orders, and Mrs Santa Claus planned for a Methodist Christmas program.
A man reflects on Christmas gifts from his wife after weeks of questioning. He lists desired items from an umbrella to books and cuff buttons, but discovers a ready gift in a closet. He finally anticipates a beautifully worked sofa pillow as his present.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a manger scene and recalling Christmastide while addressing a stranger. The text hints at holiday themes and a subdued acknowledgment of the nativity within a casual or oblique narration.
A fragmented verse style piece features a childlike dialogue about Santa and marriage, a punchy exchange on a Christmas stocking, and a line about a gifted pair of skates triggering inner resentment. The text hints at envy and fate while closing on a prompt about discarded clothes finding value in someone else.
Fred Falk and wife have moved into their new LaCrosse residence located at 503 Vine Street. The notice promotes Capper's underwear for family comfort and advertises the Mole Barber College of Chicago seeking men to learn barber trade with inducements and a short course, offering a free catalog by mail.
Mendota Illinois resident Geo W Fitch praises Dr Hobsons Eczema Ointment saying he suffered eczema since the Civil War and finally found relief from a civil box. The ad guarantees satisfaction or money back, price 50 cents, available at druggists and Pfeiffer Chemical Co Philadelphia and St Louis.
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