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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1907
Page
4
J. W. Bopp announces a high volume of inquiries from responsible parties seeking to rent farms for one to five years. He offers first class tenants and secure arrangements at moderate prices, with several good farms available and urge prompt contact for best choices.
A newspaper blurb touts a digestive product named Kodol For Indigestion as a remedy for stomach issues caused by dieting. It claims the stomach can be fed normally and aided by a digestant after meals. Sold by Muehlenthaler Bros.
A fragmentary note reports BAC defeating four on poets with a $1.20 wager noted. The text is garbled and lacks clear dates, names, or locations for fuller context.
West Union reports forenoon visits from Elgin Oelwein and Dubuque, local moves and family trips including Benson Smith Stafford Falk Carmichael Parrott and others, a Monticello jeweler's funeral, a marriage at Clarmont Church, new street lamps, and testimonials on Electric Bitters for Bright's disease with local druggist ads.
Local items list social visits and travels across Illyria and nearby towns. People like Miss Ethel Shaffer, Lydia Kerr, Charles Rothlisberger, John Rothlisberger, Rev Porter, and A W Kimball appear among guests and visitors. A March Delineator excerpt notes fashion shifts predicting a shorter skirt era despite objections.
Public auction notices list farms near Elgin and Gunder with sale dates February 25 27 and 28, featuring 30 head cattle horses grain hay hogs and farming gear including tractors wagons and planting equipment. Items include 1100 bushels corn 1100 oats 250 barley 18 tons hay 200 chickens and various implements with cash and notes terms and noon meals. E W Markham and allied clerks oversee the sales at multiple homesteads with on site coffee and lunch.
A long itemized sale notes livestock including Judith Clark lineage, cows, calves, mules, hogs, corn seed wheat timothy and oats, with machinery and numerous other articles. Terms offer one year at 10 percent interest and settlement before removal. Dated Elgin Feb 7 1907. Also bids for two school houses in Pleasant Valley Iowa due March 11 1907 with plans viewable. board may reject any bid. Secretary Maccar Lucugingar notes.
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