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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
2
The Elgin Echo lists postal and publication details with notices arranged in six lines per insertion. It cites subscription rates: one year in advance four dollars fifty, six months at seventy six cents. Local columns appear with continuous run until discontinued.
Hositor Bigin Echo announces candidacy for supervisor term beginning January 1, 1919, subject to the Republican primary on June 3, 1915. Mary Shaffer visits Lime Springs for a Red Cross basket social. $10 paid for her basket. Clif Christ drawn for training. will move to Wauseca, Minnesota until drafted in about two months. Italian Alpine soldiers cook with rallon heaters from newspapers and paraffin. Millions of candle ends and old newspapers could fuel troops and families during fuel scarcity. The cost of production hits newspapers hard. some claim newspapers ignore their own interests in wartime pricing.
Local notices mix in agricultural efforts and wartime service. Community reports describe bottle sales of Germazone at Rexall Store for chickens, updates on residents’ travels and military enlistees, and repairs from a basketball incident. Names include Mrs. Bartels, Mrs. C. L. Shaffer, John Bauman, Arnold Bauman, H. T. Knudtson, Florence Berg, and many others in Elgin and Waterloo areas.
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