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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1898
Page
7
A fragmented grocery listing shows items like Gouda, coffee, butter, soap, and soap brands with varied prices and odd spellings. The readable text hints at bulk and per unit pricing, though many words are garbled or incomplete.
Fragmented OCR lists food products and brands with prices and packaging details. Mentions include baking powder, mustard, vinegar, pickles, honey, sorghum, and pickle products, plus various imperfect spellings and weight units. It reads like a shopper’s catalog or advertisement from a local store.
A late 19th century sale notice advertises calico per yard, organdies, ginghams, and aprons with prices in cents. It lists window curtains, cottons, hats, and menswear as part of a liquidation, urging customers to act before stock runs out.
Fragmented OCR lists apparel items and pricing terms in a dated market sale notice. Mentions shoes, belts, children’s wear, hats, laces, pins, and corsets with scattered prices and pay terms. Reads as a back page classified sale paragraph from a small town newspaper.
Local snippets mention Cappar and Shntter advertising binding twine at low rates. Various notices report visitors to Des Moines and Elgin, piano and show prompts, bicycle talk, and upcoming brick work on a church. Neighbors and tradespeople frequent Clermont and West Union, with errands, sales, and social events mentioned.
Elgin reports mix of social visits, school and shop notes, moving to new homes, and a bustling canning factory dance. Citizens include Mrs Finke, George Heller, Anna Baldwin, Tilda Berger, and George Welby with mentions of cures, visits, sales, and local infrastructure upgrades.
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