Elgin social notes recall weekend visits from many towns
Elgin residents hosted visitors from Oatnae, Geetin, Cedar Rapids, Manchester, Monticello, Oelwein and more. Residents reported health updates, trips to Rochester and Independence, and a modest baseball fundraiser outcome with about 26 dollars net. A letter from Spitzenbergen brought a nephew news via a polar expedition ship.
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Chris Moger
Manchester
Elgin
Ole Matthys
Matthys
Arnold Bauman
Rochester
Minnesota
Bauman
F. R. Berg
Minneapolis
Larson
Berg
Oelwein
L. G. Lehman J Family
Mr. Yack
Spitzenbergen
Na Brother
Local Advertisement Rates and Notices Mentioned
The fragment lists advertisement rates for local columns at seven and one half cents per line and one cent per word for each insertion. It notes that church school or society notices entertainment admissions and cards of thanks run at regular rates and mentions advance subscriptions with a yearly rate of two dollars and a quarterly rate of one dollar.
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Elgin Echo
Elgin News Highlights Local Events And Notices
Walter Falb buys a new Buick Master 6 Coach for Falb garage. Weekly visits and travel among Elgin residents include Tom Olson family and others. Class day exercises entertain at school. Tourism, health notes, and agricultural concerns appear with local ads and hatchery offers. Community members, old neighbors, and various travels are detailed amid farm, business, and social updates.
End of the Rainbow Treasure Tale
A sophomore essay tells of Jimmie Brown seeking treasure at a sand pit. Years pass with him digging and spending all for hope, family urging realism, until one sunny morning he lifts his last shovel and dies, reaching the end of his rainbow. Archie Howard.
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Jimmie Brown
Jimmie
Archie Howard
Abject Plea From Ruffian Defender During Trial
The defense pleads hardship, arguing the defendant stole only to feed his children. The accused sobs as the lawyer notes a $260 pocketbook was left behind, while the judge questions the prisoner’s tears and recollection as the courtroom scenes unfold.
Sonny's Wet Boots Dried by Warm Oats Method
A brief note describes drying Sonny's wet boots by pouring dry warm oats into them. The method uses the oats to absorb moisture and heat, aiming to restore dryness without equipment or special products.
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Sonny
Favorite Hymn Choice Sparks Blushing Moment
A Sunday school scene shows children listing hymns while Mary hesitates and submits a note reading Willie Smith. In a separate item a joke recalls a brick through a window injuring a girl and a boy’s ribs, prompting a quip about fingers broken.
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Mary
Willie Smith
Pony
Doctors and lawyers spar over advantage and virtue
A stray exchange has a doctor claiming doctors have advantages over lawyers while the lawyer counters that their profession has its own perks. The dialogue centers on who makes better angels among professionals.
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Crooke
Language Lesson Sparks Quick Recitation Mix Up
A teacher and student mispronounce a lesson on doubled letters, leading to a humorous misrecitation of a poem line about the sun. The exchange appears in the People’s Journal with notes on spelling errors and classroom humor.
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Tommy
People's Journal
Massive U S Motor Vehicle Registration Surges in 1924
More Than 17 Million Acres Motor vehicles, registration in the United States for the year 1924, not including the ten days of December when they were comparatively ineligible, reached an aggregate total of 35,222,005 in 1923. This total, from official figures, shows one passenger car or truck for every 42 persons, based on an estimated population of 114,000,000. Alfred Ruckdeshehol Dysrew operated on for appendicitis at Buostville hospital this morning.
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United States
Fia
TTT Tta
Dysrew
Halarenson's three cent sale and local notes
Bills announce Halarenson's big three cent sale next week. Mrs. Efford Hunaberger has been ill and confined to bed. Locals visit relatives in Long Beach, St Paul, and Gary. Floyds attend Alumni events. Masonic picnic set for June 19 at West Union fairgrounds. Tornado damages linger as Gottfred Pfister reports chicken house, barn, and outbuildings wrecked.
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Halarenson
Efford Hunaberger
A Green
Long Beach
California
Prof
C. B. Green
Robert Crosa
Don
St. Paul
Ben Welber
Kiple
Lamont
Dee V. Butler
Butler
State Park
Louis Loftsgard
Gunder
Higin
Scholen
Pleasant Street
West Union
M. Yo Kiple
Harald
C. M. Irraen
BE. Reque
Doctor Ah
Luther
Carlton
Alfred Cook
Jacob Cook
Waterlon
Elgin
Alfred
Wateron
Florida
Gottfred Pfister
Getty
Hame
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Milton
Volea Pony
H. Burlingham
Robert
Oatnae
Fr Mra
Bertha Mostey
Geetin
Ben ‘Weibel. Jr
Mra
W. BH. McAfed
Peterloo
Harry ‘Wenger
Herwig
Weat Union
Fred Reichert
Postville
Oscar Copner
Arlington
D. C. Dean
Claud
Fothergill
Gon
Monticello
Richard Brackin
Eagle Grove
Kohler
Hanson
A. @. Graver
Martha Taube
Cedar Rapids
Chas. Frits
Baturdaly
Henry McMillan
Harry Becker
Kohler's
Iowa
Congoleum
Freiburghaus & Co
Elgin, Iowa
K. P. Strauch
Walter Falb
Ostwein
Falb
Tom Olson
St. Olaf
Nels Olson
Albertina Falb
Henry
West Bend
Hans Keiser
Iowa Senate
Ed Schmid
Waukon
Haistenton
Elmer Sechori
Carl
Mel Kohler
Betty
C. P. Broehr
Hazel Frieden
Cedar Falls
Henry Frieden
Elgin Public Schools
Hugh Casper
R. P. Strauch
Mlinois
Huron
South Dakota
Julius Freiburghaus
Mike Yenney
Fleet Stanton
Elden Johnson
Ged. White
Andy Lynch
Chas. Muehlenthaler
Harriet Bakeman Ermann
Little Brown Church
Hawaiian Islands
Federal Inspection Service
Burlington
Weibel Mill Company
Indivance
Gapner Hatchery
Farmers’ Corp
Osfion
Hand
Beamer Tire
Wast Union
Max Thoma
Elgin Farmers’ Co-Op
Assa
Jack Bhaffer
Warere Valley
Angelle Crabbe
Grabbe
Crabbe
Wm. H. Schupbach
Alfred Ruckdeshehol Wis
Buostville Hospital
Citizens’ State Bank
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