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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1898
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text shows an advertisement offering various printing services with unclear pricing and terms. Mentions monthly payments and advance options, plus references to year and six month terms. Specifics are unreadable or garbled, leaving only hints of payment schedules and material printing capabilities.
A local warning about traveling peddlers selling inefficient stoves at high prices. The piece urges readers to favor home merchants, notes how peddlers exploit credulity, and argues experience comes with learning through poor purchases. It mocks the idea of credit and neighborly guarantees from itinerant sellers.
The Ringling Bros big circus will perform in West Union on the Fourth of July bringing thousands of dollars to local merchants. Visitors will require feeding, beverages, and lodging, boosting town commerce more than usual celebrations. The event is praised as a major attraction for Fayette County's seat of Iowa.
A fractured diary style piece notes a hockey style exchange over a gun incident, mentions Rudolph Mueh Mughiotaler and a thumb injury during a Sunday ball game. It covers Elgin Lodge attendance, Dave Forbes dairy wagon purchases, Henry Hoelzar’s hotel brickwork, and Wn Vinton’s big strawberry shipment for Elgin residents and Payette county farming.
Postville’s Thoma’s Giants visited Elgin Sunday to play a friendly baseball game. The Giants, tall and husky with one mascot, defeated Elgin 16 to 2 as Elgin’s pitcher allowed fifteen men to bat while Postville used twelve on the bench. The Elgin team played courteously and let Postville win, attendance was large and gate receipts covered expenses.
Train and travel notices from Cedar Rapids and nearby cities describe special through trains to Washington and other destinations. Advertisements promote round trip fares, schedules, and agent contacts for routes via B C R & N Ry, with dates around July 6 and Jimsson July 7, including conventions in Portland and Nashville and Christian Endeavor events.
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