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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1899
Page
4
Sweet music appeals to the heart and life’s burdens fade when the Stever piano is heard. The Celebrater Steper Piano is built with top materials for durability and guaranteed performance. Stewer & Co. of Chicuhu Illinois invites buyers to request a full descriptive tractogue mailed free, with application.
An OCR damaged ad block promotes BURAG N Ry excursion dates and a travel offer with inconsistent dates and locations. It blends medical patent medicines Shilohs Vitalizer and Shilohs Consumption Cure with sales pitches from W. H. Finke and Cedar Rapids route agents. It also touts playing cards pricing and mail order instructions, concluding with health remedy claims and miscellaneous travel notices.
A Decorah Journal excerpt praises supporting local merchants while noting Bailey brothers selling cheap goods abroad. The piece argues trade laws favor buyers choosing the best price near home and cites a colored man Lavi Thomas who escaped a train, was recaptured, and jailed. It also mentions A N Noell praising Chamberlains remedy for chronic diarrhea.
Mr A Sanders writes from Cocoa Nut Grove Florida about an epidemic of diarrhoea with Hoe cured by four doses of Chamberlains Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy He claims others also benefited and recommends the medicine For sale at Stoehrs Pharmacy Low rates to Richmond Virginia for the BY PU Convention the B C R B and N Ry will sell tickets to Richmond July 10 11 and 18 at one fare plus two dollars round trip Tickets extended to August 15 for 50 cents more Side trip tickets to Washington New York and other points offered See J Morrow G P and T A Cedar Rapids Indiana for details
From Sylvan Valley News Brevard North Carolina ends with a recommendation for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. The editor notes twenty years of use and asserts it can lessen suffering before a physician is needed and suggests keeping a bottle on hand. For sale at Stoehrs Pharmacy.
An account of a special excursion by rail with Pullman sleeping cars and reclining chairs. The trip departs July 4 from Chicago, with connections to Cedar Rapids and Chicago return via Great Lakes routes, advertised fare one way plus 2.00 round trip. Details include stops at Bulls, Independence, Waterbury, and Cedar Hupide, with a Detroit run via Wabash line and return options through Mackinac and Steam routes.
Hienmond Virginia and Cedar Rapids Iowa host announcements for the National Convention of the Baptist Young People's Union of America. Tickets on sale through July 12 with good until July 31, extensions to August 16 by 60 cent extra. Information from BCR&N agents or J Moran Cedar Rapids. Conference runs July 20 to 23 1808 in Indianapolis.
An old advertisement touts Karl's Clover Root Tea for nervous relief and cleansing the system. It claims remedy for constipation kidney and bowel trouble and renewed health. Also promotes The Life And Achievements of Admiral Dewey biography and Shiloh's Cure for catarrh and cough with local vendor W H Finke in Hartford and Chicago advertising.
A compiled directory lists Representative in Congress G N Haugen of Northwood, district judges L E B Fellows Alamakee, A N Hobbon Fayette, State Senator J H L Trewin Lansing, town officials including Mayor L B Mattoon Revorder L Ainaworth Asavsgar W H Finke Treasurer N Short Trustees L Ehrlich E G Stochy C G Graham P Nicklaus G Theo Selonid Thos Knudtson Marhaidl Will Schneider. schools and church listings with principals, officers, and pastors for Methodist Episcopal, Brethren, and German Baptist congregations.
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