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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1919
Page
3
The Elgin Echo notices post office classification and local ads policy with display and local ads running consecutively until discontinued. Subscription rates listed include one year in advance three dollars and six months at seventy five cents.
A collage of 1918 letters from Elgin area service members recount Christmas far from home, scenes of Great Lakes aviation training, Paris and London wartime travel, and hope for peace. Also notes on Red Cross exchanges, a Boston police background, and family notices amid influenza and war garden praise.
The Echo urges subscribers to check mailing lists and pay in advance as of 1929. A baby girl named Virginia Re Gallagher was born December 21, 1918 in Grand Forks North Dakota to Dr and Mrs Thode H Gallagher. Rev Gallagher moved from Elgin to pastor First Church in Grand Forks.
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