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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
2
The Elgin Echo announces postal franking and advertising details. Rates for display and local ads are listed with a monthly payment plan and prices for one year or six months in advance. Printing services offered include a full range of jobbing material and prompt execution of orders.
June 29 1916 items note hot spell and social visits across West Union Guttenberg and Madison, with gatherings at Kreuger home and memberships in Priscilla Club. Local travel includes Halver Knudtson and T W Dean to Waterloo and Otto Meisner trips. Fireworks explosion damages Guttenberg store, losses about 600 dollars. August Benson reports a sunny band concert in LaSalle Illinois.
A digest of local life includes Dr. L. S. Hutchinson hosting dinner guests, Mrs. Mary Monnahan visiting New Hampton, and Mr. Thos Howard traveling to Forest City to tend a relative. Also noted are baby name talk, a rail line through Monona to North McGregor, and a promotion for Seal of Minnesota flour with coupons for aluminum ware. Church Ladies’ Aid reports sewing progress, and a humorous exchange about twins. Public notices warn on tariffs, wartime taxes, and a new national barrel size regulation taking effect July 1, with barrels to hold 105 quarts.
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