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Local Notes and Town News from Elgin and Vicinity
Patchy notes report Albert Frederick visiting from Hudson South Dakota and Berg Kohler sale prices this spring. Quailty parishioners discuss burgers, lampposts, and local ads. A Tama quarantine for meningitis closes theatres while a Plymouth case highlights orphanage secrecy. Several town events, fires, and obituaries mark the week including Mildred Palmer of Hawkeye death and Clermont incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quailty
Ivans
Berg & Kiber
Albert Frederick
Hudson
South Dakota
al Viert
Sam Lehman
Wélbel Mid
Fiteburghaus & Co
Hes Poe
Paing
Kathryn
Lee Frank
Luena
I. N. Conner
Frank
Luang Creamery Ag
State Horticultral Society
Dane
Waubon. Ry
United States
Indianapolis
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Atlantic Ocean
Americs
Lusitania
Tama
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Oelwein Register
Polk County
Iowa Childrens’ Home Society
Charles Lieske
Sheldon
O'Brien County
Wawekop R.& F
Arnold Bauman
Clermont
J. H. Bauman & Sone
Berg & Kohler
F. C. Hillman
Tyria
McDonald
C.R. Disney
Muscogee
Oklahoma
Waterloo
P. C. Aikman
Oalwain
Springer
West
Union
Halverson
Willian ‘Shaffer
Jim Johnson
Ortein
Bore
Telp
Chealey
Kingsley
Russell
Palmer
Elgin
W.H. Finke