For Sale and Local Notices in Elgin Echo Listings
A compilation of classified notices from the Elgin Echo includes want ads on rates, sale items, livestock offers, farm buyers in Omaha, dictionaries, construction paper, oats, a cash register, sales books, feed grinding, and subscription deals. Several items reference Thomas Powers, Edmonds, J. C. Anderson, Ed Bauder, Alf. Buckdasher, and R. P. Strauch with prices and contact notes.
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McCasky
Crosby-Wirth
Elgin Echo
Interesting Letters From Papers and Mags Featured
A collage of ideas on archiving quotes from publications to fuel correspondence. Includes a note on frazil ice describing ice crystals forming within water below freezing and a caution about carrying salt for wound treatment to fight diseases.
Mix of social notes and ads from Arlington area
A collage of local social life and commerce: dinners at various homes in Arlington and Castalia, New Year greetings, cafe offerings, tire discounts, magazine subscription pitches, and travel notes about a Tyria delegation visiting Beaman and Geneseo. A column comments on postal rules banning lottery style promotions while newspapers print gambling stories, urging caution to small businesses.
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Tyria
Waterloo
Grundy County
Beaman
Illyria
Geneseo
D. V. Butler
Butler
Synagogue Touro in Newport Oldest US Temple
The 1762 Touro Synagogue in Newport Rhode Island is described as the oldest synagogue in the United States and remains in use today. The note reflects on enduring architecture and historical continuity of the house of worship.
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Touro Synagogue
Newport
BR. 1
United States
Yye
Best of Humor and Me So Tired Wordplay Snippets
A collage of light verse and cartoon vignettes from old humor pages. Jokes touch on watch advice, kleptomania, manners, job ads, and family banter with a wry, era specific tone. Names like Henry Pansy and Violet appear in playful lines.
Quotable Bits on Willpower and Wealth
A compact collection of aphorisms on willpower income originality and public perception. Notable lines reference self control, bragging, and the role of action in strength, ending with thoughts on political movements and preparation for the future.
Pound case reveals money dispute in Detroit trial
The late Jim Pound’s trial featured a woman witness recounting her husband’s refusal to give her money. She testified he knocked her cold after she asked for funds, implying his intent without words, in a Detroit News report.
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Jim Pound
Detroit News
Of Two Evils Nagela Lustige Welt headline excerpt
Quote from Nagela Lustige Welt notes a husband advising his wife to drive after previously opposing it. The remark mocks her shift in stance, linking it humorously to her new pursuit of poetry. The fragment suggests a satirical or lighthearted column in a European periodical.
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Nagela Lustige Welt
May Want 2 Change Love Last Confession
A clipped dialogue from the Cin clonotl Enquirer presents a dramatic exchange where a passionate suitor vows lasting love and a modern maid coolly questions if she wants that sentiment to prevail as her final commitment. The exchange captures timeless courtship tension in a concise newspaper tease.
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Cinclonotl Enquirer
Steady Work Convict Says Prison Life Is Easier
A Luatigs Kolner Zeitung quote reports a convict praising prison labor as steadier and less risky than outside work. The inmate claims constant threat of dismissal is absent behind bars.
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Prisen
Luatigs Kolner Zeitung
On to Hollywood Pastor's Wife and Neighbor Talk
A fragmentary exchange reports a daughter headed to Hollywood tomorrow and neighbor comments about becoming a movie star. The pastor's wife clarifies that she is not pursuing stardom, saying she is going as a missionary.
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Hollywood
End of the Debates and Canada Highway Plans
Fragmented OCR item notes tension after debates and remarks on Canada’s road system. Mentions 400000 miles of highways and planned 87 million dollars for maintenance this year. Includes quoted bits and disjointed phrases about dress, shouting, and Canadian highways.
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Canada
Community Connections Fill New Year Holiday
Grand Meadow residents and neighbors shared visits and meals across Highland Clermont Wagner and surrounding towns. Families including Reinhart Olson Lyngaas Trade Blockhus and Osmundson gathered at homes and farmhouses while others attended meetings in Postville and Cedar Falls.
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Andrew Reinhart
Helen
Selmar Holm
Highland
E. M. Olson
Postville
Frances Rounds
Irene Helgarson
Florence Erickson
Ardes Olson
Ed Johnson
Willard Martin
Clermont
Clifford Osmundson
Bert Lyngas
Henry Peterson
Ole Peterson
Arthur Olson
Ardes
Alfred Buraas
E. O. Lien
Oscar Lien
Ewald Lyngaas
Erickson Bros
Vernon Trade
C. 8. Olson
Wagner Township
Frank Rounds
Cedar Falls
Art Olson
Richard Olson
E. Landsgard
Oscar Knudtson
Christ Nelson
Marie
Martin Halverson
Martin Amundson
Vinton
Joseph
Clarence Olson
Ole Blockhus
Norma Blockhus
Helen Clark
Tom
Esten Landsgard
Nora Springs
Nels Anderson
How One Woman Lost 20 Pounds of Fat
An old weight loss advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a fat reducing remedy. It promises rapid fat loss in eight weeks by taking a half teaspoon in hot water each morning, cutting pastries and fatty foods, and avoiding fatty meats and rich dairy. It claims improved energy, clearer skin, brighter eyes, and a younger feeling body, urging purchase of an 8.50 bottle at Stoehr Drug Store and offering a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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Homer
Juvenal
T. W. Aigginson
Barrie
Hume
MacDonald
Stoehr
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Thomas Powers
Chester
Alf
Buckdasher
Elgin
The
Echo
State Railroad Commission
Farrow
J. M. Shaffer
Poland
China
Ed Bauder
R. McNown
Wilkinson
Omaha
Neb
J. C. Anderson
National Cash Register
R. P. Strauch
Cornelius Reierson
du ‘Buque Telegraph-Herald
Telegraph-Herald
Thia
Brazil
Samuel Butler
Heston
Mrs. L. L. Kiple
J. B. Hungerford
Arlington
Floyd Harvey
Castalia
H. 3. Steele
Harry Gilson
Clifton Powell
J. D. Shaffer
Gamble Stores
Oelwein
Iowa
Indiana
Maeterlinck
Gloritone
All Electric Radio
the City Drug Store
Chicago Post
Henry Pansy
Henry
Violet
Marael Grandma
Little Arthur
Granny
Grand Meadow News
Nels Lyng
Decorah
Wonur
Optometrial
C. W. Heiserman
West Union
State Dept. of Agriculture
Bentley Een . NG. Ae
Dar
Sumner
Weibel Mill Company
Elgin, Iowa
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas A. Watson
Cambridgeport
Boston
Providence
New York
Chicago
Denver
San Francisco
Europe
South America
Thin Company
Jenn
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Booth Batoos Aees Aetat Company
Holl
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