Elgin Local News Highlights From Postville and Nearby
Local notices report visits among Elgin Postville Oelwein and West Union residents. Families and friends gathered for dinners and hospitality while others share illnesses and recoveries. Notable items include Mrs. Nelson’s stroke recovery and Mrs. Davis returning home to resume duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nels Olson
Will Weihe
Postville
Fred Schultz
John Falk
Wm. Wilson
Oelwein
Elgin
West Union
Chas
Huebner
Hulda Stoehr
F.l Conner
C. 5
Kniel
Frank Greenlely
H. T. Knudtson
Chas, Feller
Ray DeSart
Samuel Mosby
Cedar Rapids
Brancht
Elkader
Carr
Wm. Grover
Christian Nelson
Nelson
L. E. Nelson
T. H. Thorson
Weibel Returns From Cedar Rapids Masons Reunion
A.M. Weibel came home last Thursday evening from Cedar Rapids after attending a Scottish Rite Masons reunion the day prior. The note ends with a quip on avoiding criticism by doing nothing saying nothing and being nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.M. Weibel
Cedar Rapids
Ancient diseases traced in ancient texts and mummies
A speech by Sir euro viirey Davy Rollegop to the High Medical association asserts that diseases in antiquity mirror modern cases. He cites Egyptian mummies with tuberculosis, mumps in ancient Greece, and Bubonic plague as long established. Malaria and arthritis references, along with earlier descriptions of influenza like sweats, are discussed with name drops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euroviirey Davy Rollegop
High Medical Association
Greece
Lissa
Syria
Traly
Humphrey Rollesco
Humphrey
Set Little Brother in the Straight Path
A Washington boy pranks his younger brother by faking a car crash scene and admitting to hitting Jimmie. The incident ends with the mother distress and the child Robbie blithely describing the act, while the story teases differing ideas of childlike religion.
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Little Brother
Jimmie
Bobby
Bob
Robert
Tratyfois
Robbie
Hebbie
Washington Star
Prize Topaz Stone in Smithsonian Writs Controversy
The Smithsonian holds a claim to a prize topaz described as the largest topaz stone in the world from the Canfield collection. The gem weighs about 95 pounds and is debated as the biblical thong or peridot, with ancient knowledge questioned. The article notes its color range, rarity, lure to mistaken identity with diamond, and its physical properties compared to diamond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithsonian
Canfield
Smithsonian Institution
Pathtinler Magazine
Oat
Hartness
Siberia
Editor Meets Angry Reader Over Misspelled Name
A furious man, Morgan T. David, confronts Welch Warbler’s editor in private claiming the paper misstates his middle initial. He insists the initial is T not A and demands correct spelling.
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Welch Warbler
Morgan T. David
Fragmented Newburyport Scene Described in Damaged Text
The clipping recounts a chaotic incident in Newburyport where a water pitcher was dropped from a window onto a man. A distressed narrator recalls the damage and laments the loss, while a witness named Jane cries aloud.
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Newburyport
Menry
Lenry
Scott
Jane
Testun Globe
Upside Down Bridget Teaches in Browne Household
In a Browne home fragment Bridget, recently hired by Mrs Brows, astonishes young Mary who laments that Bridget talks upside down and that Mary cannot understand a single word. the child questions why they keep a cook who speaks so oddly.
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Bridget
Beamer's Tire Shop Offers Auto Wash and Repairs
Beamer's Tire Shop in West Union Iowa advertises car washing fast and clean with a new sir and water auto washer. It also lists top building and repairing glass cutting grounding tire boot and over shoe vulcanizing radiator repairings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beamer's
West Union
Iowa
Elgin Opera House to Stage The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
A sale ad blends offers for Echo Enterprise and Dubuque TelegraphHerald while announcing a film event at Elgin Opera House. It notes February 17 and 18 for The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary and mentions prompt service on newspaper orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Elkader
Turkey River
Echo-Enterprise
Dubuque Telegraph-Herbale
Chicago Tribune
Elgin Opera House
Aunt Mary
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Max Thoma
J. S. Hutchinson
Bernice Burling
W. C. Falb
Ethel Rennison
Guy Probert
E. L. Morris
Marquette
John Falb
L. B. Carter
E. J. Starr
Rob, Grimes
Near West Union
T. W. Dean
Helen Butikofer
Wm. Sutter
Fred Schneider
Elizabeth Neuenschwander
Fayette
Albert Schori
Mel Ritchie
Catherine Wilson
Emory Wilson
Hans Winkler
Ritchie
Hans Keiser
Charles Krumm
Echo
Hazel Davis
Rochester
J. A. Habeger
Bill Booster
Poland
China
Plymouth Rock
McCormick-Deering
Emerson Gang
Sterling Hay
Deering Mower
Osborne Mower
Klondike
Cook & Wenger
T. N. Carothers
Citizens State Bank
FRYE
Ietiam Sloman
Sindpeck Lee
Tristar Oil CO. Inc
Torkelson Bros
Elgin, Iowa
Clermont
Clermont, Iowa
Berg’s
Editorial
Elgin Echo
Politics
Son
Fred R. Berg
Men’s Sox
Wilson Brothers
J. A. Boleyn
West Elgin
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