This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Elgin and West Union Echoes of Local Life and Travel
A collage of short notices from Elgin and nearby towns recounts travelers and visitors from Clermont to Osage, farm consignments, and church plans. It notes Mark Twain and Hetty Green birthdays, local sales, upstate trips, and community events, with ads for Pine-ules and Bee’s Laxative Honey and Tar and brief farm and road news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Cook
Chris Sommers
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hetty Green
Mark Twain
Mark
Hetty
Eben Holden
Irvjin Batchelder
Maria ©. Weed
West Union
Brooklyn
New York
Stoehr’s Pharmacy
ManZan
Stoghr
Senate
House
Lafe Young
Des Moines
White House
Col. Young
Theodore Roosevelt
Philadelphia
United States
J. W. Knight
Fred Knight
Montana
Whitefish
J. W
West Union Gazette
Knights
Chas
Kaniel
Elgin
Wisconsin
Crawford
Vernon
Soldiers Grove
Crawford County
Muehlenthaler Bros
jHeir
Winnesheik County
Elgin Opera House
Fred R. Berg
D. J. Capper
Fred Gehring
Kniel & Rubger
Opera House
Godfried Frederick
Hollister Limber Co
A. IL
C. Chuir
Ida Schori
Myrie Muehlenthaler
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Fred Muehlenthaler
Lake Superior
Stoehr’s
Anna Gould
Mat Bs
Stoehra Pharmacy
Ibissiid LaCrosse
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