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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1897
Page
4
Community notices offer wood on subscription, cash receipts for non subscribers, and sales of Karl's Clover Root Ten laxative Shiloh's Consumption Cure and Catarrh Remedy. Testimonials claim nerve relief and digestion aid. Also farming equipment and a 48 acre Elgin farm for sale with water wells and timber, contact Anrnox Parrenson Brainerd.
Thousands in California ask where to go and how to raise fruit and travel cheaply and comfortably. For information contact California Bureau of Information Box 672 Cedar Rapids IA.
Tracis Gant and routes via New Orleans connect Chicago to Los Angeles and San Francisco with Sunset Limited and Pullman Sleeper service. Homeseekers Excursions run January to May at one fare plus $2 round trip to southern points. tickets sold from Chicago Wenona and towns on Illinois Central, with dates every other week for six months. Dyspepsia cures and Shiloh remedies advertised by W H Finke in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas.
Readable text advertises superior Hine available by mail from West Union or at Lita Elephant Lime Kiln two miles northeast. Claims low prices and satisfaction guaranteed. Also mentions Bhilohs cure, Clover Root Tea for constitution, and a four room house in Osceola town for sale with general listings for farm buildings and hardware in Montana, Iowa.
An Independence business man recalls the Cardiff Giant resurrection and its long fraud saga from its discovery near Cardiff New York to Barnum era exhibitions. The report shifts to Fort Dodge Iowa gypsum quarrying and a sculptor’s lone night work shaping the large stone later sent to Cordif, New York, in a staged marble exhibit. It also covers corn germination tests from Ames Iowa testing 1806 crops and seed quality amid variable storage conditions.
The Des Moines Daily News offers farmers a half price subscription at $1.00 a year due to low farm product prices. The paper, described as bright-condensed for busy readers, reports broad farmer uptake and invites further subscriptions.
Agents of B CG R N Ry offer excursion tickets at one fare round trip for May 6 to 11. Tickets on sale May 6 with final limit May 12. Special chair car seats free and run through to St Louis on May 6. Contact B R N agents for details.
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