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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1897
Page
2
The Elgin Echo lists advertising in the Local notices column with rents shown line by line. It promotes jobbing materials and printing services, offering monthly payments and various subscription options.
A discussion sets out how wealth arises from desire and the ability to satisfy it. It explores wealth as desire plus means, using a hypothetical African settlement and pork demand to illustrate how value vanishes without demand, then links money supply to changing living standards and future generations’ aspirations.
After a campaign touting instant prosperity with the gold standard, observers report continued unemployment and low prices. The piece argues that proclaiming change does not guarantee economic improvement, noting farm prices, labor, and trade realities in Canton and beyond. It urges readers to weigh factual outcomes over rhetoric.
The Hon John M Hugh died at his Cresco residence on a Saturday after a long illness. Born in Lindsay Ontario about 54 years ago he came to Dobubue twenty five years ago and served as national bank examiner under Harrison and Cleveland. He was a cattle dealer and landowner in Howard county leaving a widow Mrs J J Abera and three children. Also survived by four brothers and a sister. Funeral held Wednesday morning.
The trip under the American Tourist Association departs Chicago on January 19 1897 via the Quntral Route. Tickets cover all expenses including railway sleeping car fares hotel carriage and related costs.
California schedule promotes a New Orleans Pullman Buffet Sleeper weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays linking at New Orleans with the Sunset Limited for Los Angeles and San Francisco. Through Chicago reservations to the Pacific Coast. A Pullman Tourist Sleeper operates Wednesdays without changes from Chicago to San Francisco via New Orleans on the same route.
Homeseekers tickets offered at a low rate of One Fare round trip plus 2.00 to southern curtain points from stations on the Central route. Sales on the 1st and 8th Monday monthly east of Tow Falls and north of Cairo with 1st and 8th Tuesday. also on first and third Monday and Tuesday from Chicago Wenona and points south on Illinois Central. Tickets sold from Winona Wisconsin Indiana Iowa east of Cedar Falls to points on Illinois Central west of Nova Falls and from Central Route north of Cairo to west southwest points on the 1st and 8th Tuesday each month. Full information from Central Route agents.
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