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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1910
Page
2
Local shop advertises kerosene at ten cents per gallon and pure buckwheat flour for sale at groceries. Oelwein businesses report student placements with salaries, plus a spring dance at the High opera house on March 12 amid a recent heavy snow.
The Elgin Echo announces its mail matter status and displays a lineup of local display advertisements. It notes five cents per insertion in the local column, offers monthly accounts, and promotes a broad range of printing services with a year in advance rate of 1.50 dollars and six months at 78 cents.
Local notices list rooms for rent above Finke's Drug Store, kerosene at Capper's, and a March 12 Elgin dance. Various farm and business updates include births, sickness, sales, and property for sale or rent. Mentions of Taft era debates on sugar and eggs, cherry trees destroyed in Washington, and a new hall of physics planned at the State University.
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