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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
7
An advertisement urges listing farms for summer sales as buyers inspect after harvest and fall. It also promotes residences in West Union for sale with small down payments, loans at five to eight percent, and requests interested parties to call or write, noting no listing charges without a sale.
Knudtson traveled to Prairie du Chien on Tuesday to undergo treatment at the sanitarium for rheumatism that has troubled him recently. Lizzie B Lyons, head of the grammar department at the public school, left for home at Dunham's Grove for the summer vacation.
Advertisement extols Dr. King's New Discovery as a universal cure for coughs colds grippe asthma bronchitis hay fever and lung trouble. A Asheville North Carolina reader claims it cured an obstinate cough after others failed. Trials offered free and bottles priced 60 cents and one dollar with store guarantee.
Capper's offers kerosene at 10 cents a gallon while Lillie Goetz visits Oelwein. Reports cover local business ads, medical services, alumni officers, railroad questions, a big MWA picnic set for June 22, and social notes from Elgin and Clermont Elgin teams. A Clermont Elgin ball game ends 3 2 with Henry Lehman pitching and Emma Wetlesen wed Emil Gulsvig at Gunertown.
Week ending June 10 1910 details transfers in Oelwein and West Union including Mrs Joe Kane to A F Randall two lots Margarit Irvine to F A Harford two lots West Union city to Mrs Emma Blunt one lot and various filings with names such as Adam Kiefer Sophia Jancke Elizabeth Gallagher Michael Nolan Don Ross John Walker and Albert Beckman among others in 1910 Iowa real estate records.
Near Boston a railroad switchman named James O. Fagan is profiled in Human Life for June as a remarkable man who writes prolific stories during busy shifts in the switch tower. The piece explains how he gathered material, his clash with organized labor, and his view that environment cannot bar a determined soul, offering a tale of adventure and resilience.
Unclaimed letters in Elgin post office to be sent to Dead Letter Office if not claimed by June 21 1910. Notices list several names. An exchange ranks townsfolk by anti progress behavior and lack of hospitality. Will of 8 E King of Ottawa Ill funds education and local buildings. Statewide primary results critique. Local improvements at H Knudtson’s Pleasant Street home. Local ads from Hans Keiser C 8 Holstenson The City Drug Store and Weibel Bros. highlight new issue.
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