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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
5
Roy Kimpal and others attend church and social events across the week. Families visit, illness and recovery noted, with travel to Cedar Rapids and Arlington mentioned. An older civil war captain testimonial highlights Electric Bitters as a remedy, praising health improvements to age seventy. Local notices include postponed dance due to bad roads and community gatherings at homes.
Oak Grove residents report a severe snow storm on Sunday. Ed Boyle hosted Saturday evening. Simon O'Neil and George Wilson families visited Monday. Frink O'Herran called at West Union last week. A Ridge group attended Sam Hofer's sale Tuesday. Thomas Howard and wife from Elgin stayed Saturday night on the Ridge. Various locals, including Mrs. C. W. Smith, Mrs. Ward Brabham, and Colonel Mounce, spent time visiting neighbors and attending gatherings through the week.
Local society page records visits and short trips: Mrs Ira Bennett hosts in Forest City. Pranks Crooks and daughter visit Howard home. Ed Boyle and children stay with Shel and Marie. WiC Smith visits North Dakota to see daughter Minnie Bowen. May family members from Washington and Milli ria visit sister Mrs Ira Bennett. An ad promotes New Discovery claim for lung and throat health with prices 50c and 1.00, trial bottle free.
Sack Hagenéick will wrestle three matches this week in Elkader, Parmersburg, Lamont, and Guttenberg. Dwellings and other improvements are planned for Elkader next spring and summer. James Robbing travels to Elkader and McGregor to visit friends. R. E. Price and nephew Ben Wing head to Gransy Lake, Alberta for three weeks to sell wheat and fat. German church windows arrived and were installed, deemed beautiful. Dorothy Meyer narrowly escaped a fall from a barn second story but is fine. Willke store sale to Jos Foran of Elkader and Chas Monlux of Oklahoma with possession mid January. New firm welcomed. Wilke retires.
A old time ad-style notice touts Busklen's Arnica Salve as protection against harsh northern winds. It claims to heal red rough or sore skin and lips while softening the skin, and it promotes use for cold sores, burns, boils, sores, ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles with a price of 2½ cents at Thai City Drug Store.
The enterprise notes the furnace being installed in the new opera house this week. In Route 1, Badly Johnson died suddenly at his home causing shock and grief in the vicinity Saturday night. Christmas afternoon surprise gathering of about thirty friends honored Mrs. Peter Nelson for her recent act of appreciation.
An OCR fragment advertises "present ite Pills" claiming to ease liver kidney and bowel disorders with easy safe cure. It lists a price of 260te and locates at The City Drag Store, sounding like a general circulation drug promotion from a historical page.
West Union items report B P Hancock traveling to Des Moines for a county conference and plan to return with Cedar Rapids data. Mrs Roy Schroeder to open an abstract office. Mabel Lakin Patterson named designer administrator for Chicago fashion firm catalogs. Dick Herrick, from Miles City, Montana, visiting the parental home and starting a law career at the cited firm. A Grimes bought John Butler 50 acre farm for 110 per acre, plans March possession. Mrs A McClintock, paralyzed, died December 28 1911. widow of W McClintock, former editor of the Fay County Union. Her maiden name Mary Athalia Tacy.
Dr. Charles L. Dana argues insanity levels vary by country and liquor use. He favors licit controls and public self discipline over strict prohibition, noting mild drinks do not drive serious insanity whereas strong drinks, smuggled into dry areas, do. Also notes travel plans and local social updates.
A fragmentary report notes that the laird of Skibé promptly helped the woman escape from himself, reflecting a dramatic moment in the local tale or historical scene. The sparse OCR preserves a namesake event centered on aristocratic action and personal rescue within a troubled encounter.
A well dressed man thanks a generous neighbor for pie given during hard times a year ago. He recalls dozens refused help yet credit is given for reviving his faith in humanity and for his later success. He adds his wife jokes about sharing the last pie slice.
Edna K. Wooley writes in the Toledo Blade about using the night for rest rather than pleasure. The piece contrasts daytime duties with nighttime excess and warns of regrets, morbidity, and the visible toll of overindulgence.
The contractor Mulligan argued with building inspector Dunn after Dunn claimed the church wasn’t plumb. Mulligan prepared to report, boasting the structure was perfectly plumb, invoking Moses and an old pipe player in a boastful retort.
A London New Year card described by a German sender as a widow or managerette critiques tithes and debt office procedures. The card shows ornate phrases and a German official title Stanteschuldentii, illustrating cross language debt discourse reflected in a brief Chronicle item.
The description notes a dilapidated train arriving at the capital of the island. It is called primitive and ramshackle, with cars that stop nowhere and passengers boarding or leaving at will. In tunnels the first class is lit by candles while third class sits in darkness.
An odd preventive against seasickness appears in Henry Sidgwick's life. Sir George Trevelyan crossed the channel with him in bad weather while Sidgwick recited English poetry to test speed, claiming about 2,000 lines could be recited between Dover and Calais.
A debutante’s dinner mishap ends in spilled wine across every glass at the table. The hostess accepts the scene, guests join in with salt rubs to blot the stains, and by dessert the table shows almost no trace of the claret.
In a clipped extract from The Green Carnation, the narrator parodies Meredith as a post office figure and muses on translating his works. The piece notes a forthcoming self edition of Gone into English, suggesting it could profit readers and the author, with cautious doubt about Mania’s engagement.
The readable text is garbled with partial phrases and lacks identifiable people places or events to summarize. No coherent action or outcome can be established from the provided excerpt.
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