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Rural and Local Notices From Elgin area 1906
items include obit of William Kent July 19 1906 in West Union. community news on visits by Fay Fishback and Miss Ada Oswald. Oelwein population 7000 and 1050 residences. Fayette county rural schools opening August 4 at West Union. ads for King’s Dyspepsia Tablets and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. new cement burial vault firm authorized in Clinton county. Elgin Farmers Dairy Co. earnings for June. law change on disinfection costs for contagious diseases. local baseball results Elkader 5 Elgin 2. ginnery and local business notes.
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William Kent
West Union
Fay Fishback
Maynard
Hugh Patterton
Oelwein
Ole Scholen
Austin
Minn
Thomas Hanson
John Falk
Ray DeSart
Hans Grader
Fayette County
Lydia Kerr
Katie Medberry
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Stoehr
Jos. A. Alexander
Elgin
Iowa
Stoehr's
Mississippi Valley Burial Vault Company
County Recorder
Clinton
J. E. Moran
Clinton County
Kenyon
Ada Oswald
Gary
South Dakota
Dakota
Rochester
L. H. Oswald
Bright
Allamakee Journal