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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1914
Page
5
Baltimore Oysters offers lunches meals cigars tobacco and soft drinks with a focus on casual dining. Patrons can enjoy a variety of oyster dishes along with beverages and light fare in a relaxed setting.
Cheery Valley notes a Sunday snow storm with residents visiting parental homes and hosting guests. Multiple local names visit, call, or host at various homes from Friday to Monday, with health updates and a town sale at Ole Johnsons.
Brainard News recalls a flurry of local names and small events from the Sunday to Tuesday period. Lively mentions include Delbert Lyons in West Union, Anna Miller between trains at Elgin, Mrs. Judson Conner ill with pneumonia, and John Burke delivering a horse to West Union. The Busy week features visits, travel, society meetings, a carload hog shipment by Farmers Co-Operative, and social plans at Brainard school.
An advertisement outlines worm symptoms in children and promotes Kickapoo Worm Killer as a safe, effective remedy. It claims to kill worms and provide laxative relief, urging households to buy a box for two cents, available at druggists or by mail from Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co.
An Edison Tennessee retailer praises Dr Kings New Discovery as the best cough cold and throat lung medicine. He claims it relieves obstinate coughs relieves colds and helps gang troubles quickly. A household staple bottle prices 60 cents and a dollar mailed by Bucklen Company Philadelphia or St Louis.
Mrs Colonel Mounce spent Thursday with Mrs C Denonler and Mae Bennett who is teaching nearby, reflecting small town social ties and community routines in Oak Grove.
Public notice warns against catarrh treatments containing mercury, noting severe harm to smell and the system. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo is cited as mercury-based and sold by druggists at 75 cents per battle, urging consumers to seek genuine internally taken remedies and physician prescriptions.
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