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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1904
Page
4
A garbled OCR listing numerous properties for sale or auction. Entries describe farms, acres, timber, roads, houses, barns, and improvements across multiple towns. Prices range widely from modest to thousands. terms often on application. Locations include Clermont, Elgin, Lima area with references to timber, water works, and stock sheds.
Fragmented OCR style item lists local happenings at Clermont including farm news birth reports and church notices. Mentions Fred Suckow timing a mare sale, Dr Betty reporting birth, Ladies Mission gathering, and Rev Temple sermons. Various names and dates sprinkled throughout reflecting a community column.
WkVRIA News notes a milder spell and hints of spring as residents cover early blossoming berries. Milo Kiliszhi travelled to Fayette to see his parents, while local teachers and students at Waterloo face routine disruptions. Reports of livestock disease decline with no deaths. a midwinter trip to Clermont supports Rev Temple.
Fragmentary clipping mentions a celebration for a sixteenth birthday with a festive tone and guest attendance. Names and specifics are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Fragmented report recounts local residents in German Bottom Mississippi with names Frieden Berger and Freidertch. Mentions midweek visits, a newborn, school notes, and planned magazine subscriptions amid a chaotic OCR era record of community life.
The notice extols Scott's Emulsion as a modern factual nutritional aid for children. It argues right feeding boosts growth and compares farm feeding to child nutrition, claiming cod liver oil provides flesh blood and muscle while lime and soda aid bone and brain development.
The readable fragments reference international papers and the potential return of numbers or permits. Mentions of patrony, magnanes, and revation appear, but the text is heavily garbled with no clear event, date, or named entities to identify.
A vivid note promotes a five week Des Moines Iowa tour to Mexico described as Egypt of the New World. It lists organizers Iowa Touring Association and contact Des Moines, with dates and price details, promising attractions, climates, ruins, and customs for travelers. Included is mention of a giant Percheron horse exhibition by Snyder and Gamble at the World’s Fair, weighing 2700 pounds with two horns.
Notice is hereby given that the partnership between Ted Capper and G L Studer is dissolved by mutual consent on February 3 in Eli Iowa. All liabilities will be paid by Ted Capper and others. HoopLINE And Notes Hue the Miron are to be parts hint Dated at Eli Iowa.
Farm listing offers 143 acres in rural Iowa with a pond, springs, burn, and 80 acres of timberland. Rest watered by timber roots. priced reasonably. Write to Win Loepuann or Fred if Sonoxt, Elgin. Iowa. About 10 acres laid out as Canady Ik. price 8750. G. Engbserson of Fusston, Mink.
The 80th General Assembly adopted a measure repealing a statute requiring exterior appeal case assignments. Critics said the Supreme Court used the old rule to discard meritorious appeals due to technical errors. Rep R M Wright of Webster County championed the bill. The note also mentions a bachelor editor drawing attention to a young lady's costume, strange phone requests about pork toast, and assorted local notices including a death near Brainard and travel plans of Mrs Holmes and family.
Elgin will host a new millinery shop this spring as Miss Hattie Monts leases the Berger building on Center street. She will travel to Chicago this week to select stock and visit wholesale houses, with an opening date to be announced later. Monts has held positions in major cities, including St. Louis, and the local press lauds her expertise. A separate crime report notes Richard Martin, 17, arrested for assault with intent to commit rape in Bloomfield township, to be reviewed by the grand jury, and Vincent Bartlett of Burr Oak charged with incest involving his 14 year old daughter, also to be examined by the grand jury.
Pratt Howell Co. and Duke Houx of Warfield collaborate on a new display rack for groceries, named the H. & H. rack. It is in production with many orders booked and offers for patent six thousand dollars and for county rights. Decorah Journal notes the invention and its commercial interest. Also reported, county supervisors commit to 80,000 dollars in four percent bonds funded at a premium of 2,800 by First National Bank of Chicago via a Davenport firm.
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