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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
1
Public sales invites and printing services offered as a merchant proclaims quality and displays. Kerosene sold at 10 cents a gallon at Finke's Drug Store. University of Iowa forced to close due to coal shortage with only the hospital building open and crowded with patients amid ongoing famine.
A cluttered column recounts Berg's sale at Finké's Drug Store with strong hints of incentives and a push for sales. It notes Elgin dentist Dr Hutchinson, a big Dubuque 1969 building spend, a Kensington Club meeting, and milk price shifts in New York. The piece mixes local notices, weather, travel, church events, and ads, reflecting small town life and bustling commerce.
An old advertisement offers a 56 cent bottle labeled healthy robust boy or girl and promotes a savings bank and Child's Sketch Book. It directs readers to send the name of paper and the ad to inc. and lists Scott and Bowne at 409 Pearl Street, New York.
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