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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1918
Page
7
Patients traveling from Elgin on the morning train may phone or drop a card to save time for a noon return. Those coming by afternoon or evening trains can return later. Givers receive a special price and the office boasts finely equipped instruments that stay in town.
Governor Harding directs Iowa towns to curb seed corn prices amid a severe 1918 shortage. Seed corn must germinate reliably. crib corn tested with high germination should not exceed $10 per bushel, other seed corn tiers capped at $4. Public selling bans and patriotic duty to equitable distribution are stressed, with President-like seal and date noted.
An old advertisement claims Chamberlain's Tablets correct faulty digestion and induce a gentle bowel movement. It promotes the medicine as one of the best you have ever become acquainted with and notes availability at Storch’s Drug Store.
Edna Hunsberger is a Liberty measles victim. Leoni Howard enrolled in third grade Monday. Bila May Schori visited West Union Tuesday. Mrs. McCoy traveled to Oelwein on Saturday. Maud Patterson visited the grammar room last Saturday afternoon. Meek and Marie Falb were West Action visitors Saturday. Elmer Yenney added 36 cents to the Junior Red Cross fund Monday and made a bird house sold to Mrs. Frank Capper. Relief at no more Saturday school noted as workload eases. Elizabeth, Harold Kingman, and Donald Gilson started eighth grade work this week to prepare for May county exams. Each grammar room pupil now owns a Thrift Card with slogan Save and earn. Miss La Grange at Marshalltown reports she is well and busy. Easter vacation planned with June 16 school close. The Dutch Detective play drew about $66, clearing the boiler debt. actors performed well. Cecil Klingman enrolled Tuesday in eighth grade, aiming to graduate with the class. Ethel Rennison, Margaret Yenney, and Agnes King were sick last week. Hthel remains home with rheumatic trouble.
William Vinton explains the third liberty loan bonds totaling seven billion dollars. He magnifies the sum with tangible silver dollar analogies, noting the enormous scale and urging readers to buy a bond. The piece underscores the government loan's vast magnitude and the perceived civic duty to support it.
The piece traces camouflage from nature to military use, noting how uniforms blend with surroundings in modern warfare. It warns of possible legislation or a tax on camouflage, suggesting revenue could offset postal rate hikes.
An old household remedy advertises Chamberlain's Tablets to ease sour stomach. The note instructs taking one tablet before bed and mentions a local drug store selling the product.
A letter from Frank W. Bakeman, a former Huron railroad man serving with an engineering company in France, describes the struggle to obtain American tobacco for soldiers. He recalls smoking French tobacco, harsh travel conditions, being at a base hospital area, and transport hardships before noting improving morale as spring arrives. He mentions Y.M.C.A. tobacco supplies, early front readiness, and evenings at the M.C.A. with wrestling events aiding finances.
A Mt Gilead Ohio editor recalls a customer who sought Chamberlains Cough Remedy and faced substitutions at several stores. The piece urges store clerks to post prices and not substitute other brands, warning customers lose faith and makers lose sales. For sale by Stoehr a Drug Store.
At a meeting in the local Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, a service flag with 24 stars was unfurled to honor Dodge men serving in the army or navy. Dedication readings featured Marie Wagner, Mrs B H Kerr, and Miss Marjorie Urquhart, with Fred Duffy delivering the dedication address and America sung at the close. Names of the service members listed include R W Airey, F W Bakeman, B C Bruffat, G W Boucher, I R Cox, J C Freiburghaus, H H Head, and others. The Daily Youronite notes an 1818 date typo and an advertisement promise of newspaper ads equal money in future use.
Post office requires all rents to be paid in advance. Mr FalbNgns sold his interest in the S to his son Herbert and its call and gett.
West Union presents itself as a political religious and social hub in a seventy million dollar county. It boasts a top northeast Iowa high school with twenty teachers, ample water and drainage, strong lighting, and one of the state’s finest public parks around the courthouse. The city highlights Linden Park large shade trees and wealthy private grounds with several well supported churches and an absence of rough elements.
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