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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
4
The passage blends old patent medicine claims for Shilo’s Consumption Cure and Earls Clover Tooth Powder with scattered regional notices. It reports fires at The Park Hotel in Postville, a fatal accident involving a boy near Decorah, and local business movement in Calmar, Nashua, and West Union, all reflecting a cluttered midwestern newspaper fragment.
A jumble of travel ads and local notices describes train connections from Chicago to California via New Orleans and the Pacific coast, with sleeper schedules and holiday excmrsion plans. Minor obituaries note George Stinsberry’s death, while a burglary at Smith & Butler’s market is recounted with details on a failed safe raid and estimated cash loss.
Miss Alvin Schulte, living four miles northwest of Gagnaville, visited town with her father Terman Schulte. In 17 years of age, she began to serene her divination four years ago after a press report claimed she could locate underground water via peculiar energies, earning the nickname water witch in her locality.
A fitful report details a girl’s alleged precognitive water finding and magnetism, as described in a Decorah dispatch. It also covers a troubling case in Decorah where De Weo H Binion’s son, under care of his mother in law, suffered neglect leading to choking and alleged harm, with legal action impending in Wisconsin.
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