This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Lincoln cigar ads and Elgin commerce sprawl
Local notices describe Benson Bros timber and Lincoln cigars at various shops, laundry and clothing store promotions, summer dress goods at Capper Shaffer and Enudigon Halverson, millinery by Mrs Graham, and hotel ice cream samples. The page also notes a new opera house, a Woodmen visit, a German Baptist anniversary, and a Keeley habit excitement near West Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Benson Bros
Gunderson
Luydry
John Boleyn
Sutra
Enudigon & Halverson’s
Hotel Dewey
R. Jd. Stoshy
Eco Jos
Cappe
John Lehman & Son
Steely’s
BR. J. Broehr
Wein
Capper & Shaffer's
Reagon Bros
Davey
Reliable
Lumber Deslers
John Lekman & Son
Capper & Shaffer
Ica
Gus Holzer
Capper & Silat Trank Stovick
New York
M.A
Commercial Hall
Good Templars
Siglin Grove
Elgin
Capper & Siyfter’s
Sam
DuarLuy Beexer
Iowa
Light of Elgin
Rocky Mountain
Maud
Jack
Hel
Rocky Mountain Tea
Kuster
Butler
Young People’s Society of the German Baptist Church
Organ Fund