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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1904
Page
4
The Elgin Echo issue promotes advertising in the focal column with five contents per insertion and notes monthly accounts payable. It announces a wide assortment of jobbing material and printing services, with six months in advance options and yearly prepayment details.
A December 1904 item list from a local paper notes Frank Bell visiting over the holidays, Fréd Smith and C Lehman hosting guests, and multiple family visits including Mrs Fertig and Mr Christ. Roy Bakeman returns home after months away. rural route donors give Christmas remembrances. notes on local happenings include theater plans, a moving picture show by George Machamer, and community jokes and ads. The column closes with pharmacy, weathered anecdotes, and a long poem fragment about mistaken identity on a platform.
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