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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1914
Page
2
The Elgin Echo announces advertising rates and local display ads at five cents a line per insertion. It notes monthly accounts and offers various jobbing printing services, with prepayment terms for one year or six months.
Local items from Elkader area report visits by Pioneers and visitors, farm moves, new business ventures, sales events, and family notices. Named residents include J H Bower, L 8 Hutchinson, Albert Gage, Lena Berger, Mildred Palmer, Frank Boyle, Ed Boyle, R P Strauch, Hazel Akers, George Stoehr, Chas Monnahan, Mrs Reinhart, and many others with references to Elgin Livery, Capper store, and local farms. weather and road conditions noted along with notable deaths and illnesses.
Advertisements invite readers to obtain a good suit or overcoat from DT J Caprur and to view Misses and Children's dresses. Also offers about 100 bushels of corn and 4 to 5 tons of hay at the Ecuo office. Builders tout hollow clay blocks for silos barns and hog houses as cheaper and durable, with price lists and catalogs available from C Mitraca & Sons in Clermont Iowa.
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