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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1897
Page
4
An 19th century style ad page touts subscriptions and discounts for wood purchases, with multiple patent remedy pitches. It promotes Karl's Clover Root, a laxative, and Karls Clover Root Tex, claiming nerves, digestion, and complexion benefits, plus other tonics and cures sold by W. L. Finke and local merchants.
The Weekly Disputeh of St Paul Minnesota offers a sample copy and subscription details. It promises a vegetable and Moiver Keads feature with advertisements for lay Company products and a low annual price.
Advertisements detail weekly and biweekly excursion tickets from Chicago Wenona and other hubs to numerous Northern Western and Southern towns. Prices include one fare plus 2 for round trips with dates listed for upcoming departures. Agents offer full information and sale through Central Route offices and agents in multiple states. Various medical cures and tonics are also advertised by local vendors.
A mix of small town advertisements and medical claims offering sage cures, constipation tea, a cough remedy, catarrh cure, and a four room house for sale in Clormant Iowa. Names include Sam Roguany W. Karl's Olevar Rent-Tea and W. L. Finke.
Farm property three miles west of Higin described as eighty net acres with 45 more acres suited for plow. Includes outbuildings, running water and sturdy walls. Offered for sale very cheap. For details contact Aart Parrapson, Bralperd Town.
A center village paper in Kansas reports a sharp row stirred by a remark about a sensible young man and a worn mother. Sixteen young people have denounced him, while the town's Cottonburg Press notes the tension and public response.
Mrs Beekman and Mrs Burgess of Magnanl were badly hurt in a runaway wreck about 9 pm Wednesday May 20 as their team ran then collided with another buggy. They were thrown from the seats with injuries to hands, no bones broken, taken home after wounds were dressed. Two children, ages 1 and 6, were with them but escaped with minor scrapes.
William George Jordan chronicles six decades under Queen Victoria noting reforms ending flogging in armed forces and child labor in Britain. He highlights humane criminal treatment, factory laws, bridges, faster travel, and inventions transforming daily life from 1887 toward modern progress.
A satirical column laments early marriages among youths described as unrestrained by society. It mocks loose courtships, hurried pledges, and rushed family life, blaming lack of rules and warning of chaotic outcomes. It targets adult readers with sharp humor about social behavior.
The Muscatine Journal argues against broad prohibition in Iowa by publishing a table of government licenses for alcohol sales at retail since 1883. It lists yearly totals, noting years like 1883 5,001 and 1889 9,978 with various misprints. The piece recalls the prohibitory law adopted in 1886 and laments enforcement lag into 1888, casting doubt on the policy’s success.
The piece argues prohibition failed to stop liquor, noting early enforcement and later decline in stamps under state law, with bootlegging rising. It cites Muscatine County’s lax enforcement, contrasting with Henry County, and urges reconsideration of temperance reforms and the mulet law versus statewide prohibition.
Travel and sale notices announce a one fare round trip from By CG OR NM and others with tickets on sale May 3 final May 12. Special chair car seats free and rates through to $1. Iowa State Firemen's Tournament in Iowa City June 15 to 18 offers open rate round trip from all points on B C R and N Ry. For sale dates and info contact agents or J Morton Cedar Rapids.
Travel notices for the G A R annual encampment at Marshalltown June 8 to 10 announce reduced rail fares by B C R & N Ry with one fare round trip and a final limit June until further details. Also opening of Hotel Orleans at Spirit Lake May 15 for fishermen and summer season around June 20 plus reduced summer tourist tickets through B C R N Ry, with Cedar Rapids and other offices listed for booking and information.
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