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Elgin Echo notes and local society and industry
Elgin residents report varied news items from visitors and weather to local deaths and crime. Tuberculosis cases and a fatality near Gunder are mentioned alongside a mail box robbery arrest in Cedar Rapids. A new Rhode Island red cockerel sale in Chicago draws attention to poultry pricing and a standard of marital happiness is humorously discussed in Chicago. Edison and moving picture royalties loom in national affairs.
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John Riddle
Lillian
St. Paul
E. J. Halverson
Evan L. Lien
Knudt Groth
Gunder
Chicago
Rhode Island
Paul Fenicle
Paul Perkinson
Oelwein
Cedar Rapids
United States
Elgin Theatre
Dubuque
Savanna
Illinois
Opera House
Rudy Pfister
Lavina
Mont
Elfin
Emanuel Doltkes
Wilson
Rudy
Canada
England
David Moats
Mra
James Boots
Elgin
C. L. Freiburghaus
Elgin Echo
Chicago Record-Herald
The
Country Gentleman
Ladies Home Journal
Saturday Evening
N. H. Bakeman
Dakota
Great Northern
Roy
Thomas A. Edison
Mr. Edison
Motion Picture Patents Company
Moving Picture
Edison
Moving Pickone
Alma Berger
Yeater
Waverley