Hall's Catarrh Medicine advertised as cure all
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine with a one hundred dollar reward for cures not achieved. It claims 35 years of use, blood action, and quick health improvements, plus testimonials. Also promotes Chamberlain's Tablets and Croup remedy with local store names. Mentions a 6:30 closing order being obeyed by Elgin merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
J, Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
7Ic
Chamberlain
Stoehr
Elgin
Iowa
Divine Providence
Lusitania
Wilhelm
France
Lfe
Elgin Echo Ad Rates and Local Column Policy
In Elgin the paper notes ads in local columns are set on a single line per insertion and all display and local ads run consecutively until discontinued. Subscription costs are one year $1.50 and six months 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Weibel Bros Mill Promotes Guaranteed Bread Flour
A 1918 notice highlights Weibel Bros Mill offering guaranteed bread flour with higher grade options. Community reports ongoing storms through December and January and hopes for a business cessation by April or May. Also notes hiring printer services for sale bills, health guidance on overeating, and a Castalia farmer’s wheat-ground oddly limiting return loads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weibel Bros
Board of Railroad, Commissioners
Hecio
Food Department
Minnesota
War talk and town notices in Elgin Iowa column
Local items discuss inflation era concerns on taxes and food hoarding, wax poetic on thrift and war effort, report influenza cases in Decorah, coal shortages in Elgin, and residents such as Miss Emma Baldwin and Nurse Elia Lehman aiding Red Cross. Mentions farmers hoarding potatoes, and civic notes from Schori & Kuster and Moser & Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Nicklaus
West Union
R. W. Muehlenthaler
Broehr & Co
Hans Keiser
Harriet Mackellar
Ground Hog
Agmibar
Myris
Fayatte College
Clyria
OddFellows
Rebekah
Echo
Bing
R. Moser & Son
Jess
H. G. Blunt
Elgin
Schori & Kuster
Emma. Baldwin
Iowa City
Nancy Baldwin
George Baldwin
Nancy
Elmer Schori
Milwaukee
Illinois
Fred Mushlethaler
Trinoisy
Chicago
Freeport
Camp Grant
Rockford
Presburghats & Co
Soldier Boys
Fred
Elia Lehman
Red Cross Surgical
Lehman
Echo Office Handles Subscriptions and Postal Help
Readers can leave a check at the Echo office to save trips for subscriptions and addresses. Mrs. Hughes accepts renewals at the Echo office. A German merchant in Barcelona once paid a Spanish sea captain seven thousand dollars in a check for gold, who invested it in Liberty bonds and returned the proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo
Barcelona
New York
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Buckeye
Old Trusty
L. G. Lehman
Miller & Gruver
McCales Magazine
McCall's
McCall Patterns
McCales
HOWLY
Prine
Themccall CO
Wea
37Th Street
New Fork
N.Y
Broehr’s
Crub Store
Elgin, Iowa
THE
Elgin Echo
FB. W. Hughes
Iowa State Traveling Men’s Association
Paea
Castalia
Decorah
Louis
Joe Schneider
West Bend Tournal
Chris Moser
United States
Canada
San Francisco
Wisconsin
Michigan
Samuel Livingston
Food Administration
Livingston
the Undertaker
Rexall
Rexall Store
C. J. Harrington
Blackfoot Valley
Montana
Pacific
Milwaukee & St. Paul
E. E. Brewer
J. R. Cook
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