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Local notices and community updates in Elgin era
The Elgin column reports service lines and telephony metrics, local ads for tonics and remedies, upcoming events at the opera house, farm deals, school construction plans, new business ventures Monnahan Gehring, and community notices including travels, illnesses, and social events across towns in the period.
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Willie
Winnie
Kennedy
Muehlenthaler Bros
David Forbes
Railroad
Cedar Rapids
Sioux Falles
Ray Shaffer
Loggins
Los Angeles
Cal
East Lake Park
Iowa Association of California
Hawkeye
California
Monnahan & Gehring
Frank Gehrigg
C. Monnahan
Belwein
Francis Robbing
Effert’ Huneberger
Gua Boyer
The
Elgin
Opera House
Fred Gehring
Fred Frieden
la Mars
Missouri
Albert
Hadad
Wu. Brown
Farmersburg
Brown