Elgin Dancers Attend Postville Ball Amid Travel Snubs
Report from Elgin notes many dancers attended a grand ball in Postville on St Patrick s Day but found lodging scarce and costly. Luther Shaffer reportedly plans to rent Elgin s new hotel with John Bauman and Mrs Muehlethaler, promising top hospitality as in Alma Nebraska.
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St. Patrick's
Postville
Theas
Luther Shaffer
John Bauman
Mra. Muehlethaler
Luther
Elgin
Iowa
Trans Mississippi Exposition designs and local votes noted
Houston business men offer a $100 prize for the best Houston representation design for the Trans Mississippi Exposition. Fayette voters pass school tax 80 to 10. result attributed to female suffrage. Montgomery Ward plans a $25,000 Chicago exhibit building on the Montgomery tract with a Louis XIV style reproduction and a broad display of nineteenth century industrial growth.
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Houston
Texas
Fayette
Montgomery, Ward & Co
Chicago
Bluff Tract
Arnold Jubilee Quartsite at Elgin Iowa March 28 1898
The famous Arkansas colored singers known as Arnolds Jubilee Company perform in Elgin Iowa on Monday evening March 28 1898. The band claims to offer superior quartette harmony with plantation melodies sure to touch hearts and please all ages. Admission is 28 cents with refunds if not pleased.
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Arkansas Colored
U. B. Ohburoh
Elgin
Iowa
Arnold
Alika
Jubilee Company
Penrer
Central Hotel
Nenenad Wander
Tragic Kinney infant death and court case noted
Church and Elgin obituary record for Levi Washburn Kinney born August 6 1806 at Higin Iowa died March 1 1808 after brief illness. Funeral at home with burial in Elgin cemetery. Family letters honor reader and kinship deeply. gratitude expressed for support during illness and death. Composed by C K Kinney Elgin Iowa March 15 1898.
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Levi Washburn Kinney
Higin
Iowa
A. 2D. ‘Kinney
Ray
Perry
Elgin
Levi
Christ
C. K. Kinney
Jaws
March
Cheap Schools And Regulations For Township Districts
The notice outlines law on appointing teachers by the full board, limits delegation, and promotes standardized rules for directors, officers, and teachers in School Townships. It urges adoption of provided regulations, with revisions for each district, and notes low teacher wages in Tale county within the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orricg
Favotts Co
Tale
Fayette
Union Beltsle Emma Abbott Article Highlights Iowa Education Facts
The document discusses Iowa counties including Fayette and Allamakee, noting illiteracy, teacher pay averages, months of teaching, and tuition costs. It stresses the need for qualified teachers, proper compensation, libraries, and contract procedures under state law, with a 1897 date reference and a 1898 public auction notice and church update included.
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Allamakes
Towa
Fayette County
Ling
Tin
Hance
FrexMan H. Bloopgoop
West Union
Iowa
Various Local Notices Promote Goods and Travel Deals
A crowded page shows merchants from Elgin Iowa offering footwear millinery and farm items while railways promote low fare excursions to Cedar Rapids and beyond. Advertisers include R L Irvine, F Sova, Stella Sorg and M G Wren with calls to trade for a cow, buy potatoes, and pay taxes at a bank. Also details for dog show travel rates and spring shoe stock sales.
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Liginas
Agvanch
Navandis
Waukon Democrat
Spain
Arnolds Jubilee
Dorland
Babes
Angles
C K. Kinney
A.D. Kinney
Tabitha K. Knight
Clermont
Union Belsle
Emma Abbott
George Heller
R.a.stoehr
Stoehr
IOW
U. B
R. L. Irvine
F. Sova
A. Aha As
Stella Sorg
Eigin
Cayper & Shatter
Citizen's State Bank of Elgin
Pleasant Valley
M. G. Wren
Elgin, Iowa
California Ward
California Bureau of Information
Cedior Rapids
Lows
Minnesota
South Dakota
Shell Rock
Abbott Crossing
Waverly
Morton, G. P. & T
Cedar Rapids
Scott
Monk
All Scott & Bowne
New York
Attien
Hon Forhey
G. Stoerhr
Joweler
Miner” Pty
Ripans
Spruce St
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