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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1895
Page
7
Public notices and announcements appear with a five cent per line rate. The ad section lists political names, a dental offer, a tailor service, and local sales in Elgin. It includes a house for sale on Alain Street, tobacco works, and a printing shop advertisement promising modern typography and low prices.
Elgin is praised as the cheapest town in the northeastern region for farmers to buy goods. The report lists local prices buyers and merchants pay for butter eggs potatoes onions and various staples, noting Bey Schori as the produce buyer who pays more than rivals. Prices are given per unit for dairy, grains, produce, and groceries with weekly corrections expected.
Advertisements urge spring trade with Benson Bros for flour and feed and highlight new goods from New York at Mrs Grahwap'ae Schneider's saw mill. Local notices mention visits by Mrs Jarry Hoyer and others, plus shipments by G W Nicklaus and a Illness recovery note for Toldones. The Beloit area column notes Elgin well wishes and Dan Forder from Elgin traveling to Dubuque.
Local items report Benson Bros in Minneapolis selling flour and feed, New York goods arriving at Mrs Gralan's, Glomenta & Son in West Union offering abstracts, and Dubuque excursionists. Town improvements include street lamps, cemetery fencing, bridge work near Clermont, and Bly’s planned business block on the Benson property.
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