Elgin Echoes Classifieds Offer Farm Goods and Notices
A dense Elgin Echo Office page lists sales ads for sorghum mills cabbage and tomato plants and seeds at low prices, a piano sale near Elgin on monthly installments, Leghorn farming offers, rental pasture land, fence posts hay and corn listings, and requests to buy an old barn. It also includes office supplies and stamps, plus a column urging readers toward education and initiative for success.
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H. B. Gilson
Elgin
Echo
Elgin Echo Office
Relieves Rheumatism Pain with VEXAGON
VEXAGON eases sharp pains from rheumatism arms legs back and head. It helps stiff joints back and hip pains and treats sciatica neuritis and lumbago with noted results. Safe non habit forming, order for $1.00 postpaid from Phoenix Laboratories Scranton PA.
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Phoenix Laboratories
Scranton
School Notes Highlight May 13 Junior Senior Banquet
The junior class prepares for the annual banquet on May 13 with fifteen seniors and twenty juniors. The senior class rehearses the comedy Sonny Jane centering on Sonny Jane Marquard, a newspaper worker facing financial ruin, with a cast including Mrs. Amelia Spitgendorf and Mr. Streck. Also noted are May basket walks, perfect arithmetic for several students, and health poster and citizenship map projects across grades.
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Sonny Jane
Sonny Jane Marquard
Mitchell
Sam Streck
Congress
Amelia Spitgendorf
Shiek
Miss Rothlisberger and Miss Fox Well Visit High School
In her arithmetic notebook the past notes a visit by Miss Rothlisberger and Miss Fox Well to the high school last week, recording a brief account of their stay and observations.
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Rothlisberger
Foxwell
Elgin Town Council May 4 1981 Minutes and Audited Claims
Elgin Town Council met in regular session at the town hall with all members present. Minutes of prior meetings were read and approved. The finance committee audited claims including T W Dean salary pumping Elgin Echo printing W S Nolt Co hose gaskets and various others for street, water, and power services. The council approved payment of listed claims and adjourned.
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Elgin
T. W. Dean
Elgin Echo
W.S. Nolt. Co
G. H. Kiple
Chandler Pump Co
Farm Advice Notes on Poultry, Manure and Raspberry Cultivation
Information from the U S Department of Agriculture notes April saw fewer hens and pullets in American flocks. Poultry manure is a strong nitrogen fertilizer that can burn plant roots if overapplied. Limit application to 3 to 10 pounds per 100 square feet. Raspberries require ample soil moisture, humus, and tilling through growth and fruiting. Mulching with straw or leaves is common for canes. Green manuring effects vary. failures to boost crops are possible.
Patriot of Swedish Blood in Early Delaware Settlers
John Morton a signer of the Declaration of Independence traces ancestors to Swedish settlers on the Delaware river. His father died before his birth and his mother later married an Englishman, highlighting multicultural roots in early American lineage.
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John Morton
Delaware River
Bertillon Honored For Invention Of Person Measurement
Alphonse Bertillon, who devised a system of human measurement, was named chevalier of the Legion of Honor in March 1879 in recognition of his pioneering work in forensic identification.
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Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon
Nisde
Thrift tips and kitchen tricks from local sources
Beginning a month with budgeting advice and practical how tos fills a page with homemaking tips. Recipes for strawberry pie and several icings share steps, while a note on measuring and drying a western garment appears alongside hardware shopping.
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Fenolass
Elgin School News
Iowa
John Etter
Perfection Oil Stove
Ty New
Ern Holzer
Reynold Strong
Chicago
P.O. Box
Tom Barron
Erhardt
Leghorn Farm
Town
Ernest Meye
West Union
Martin Wwoe
Henry Mark
Fayette County
Fitch
Eastman Kodak
The
Echo Office
McCasky
Crosby-Wisth
U. S
National Cash Register
R. P. Strauch
Iola Dummermuth
Lewis Carter
Margaret Crider
Elmer Hoag
George Mack
Ethel Mae Thoman
Betty Elkema
Ardis Groth
Lois Leonhart
Rudy Johnson
Zella Boyle
Council Proceedings
C. J. Harrington
Labor Water
Central States Power & Light Corp
Grimm & Hellum
Mike Adrian
Lawrence Knudtson
Care
Worthington Pump & Mcb'y Co
Max Hunsberger
Fred Gehring
Labor Streets
Stoehr Drug Co
Y Elgin Band
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Roe Cha Ful-Q-Pep
Quaker
Weibel Mill Company
Elgin, Iowa
Stork
Feller’s Hardware
Weat Elgin
A ‘Lw
Lindy
Miller’s
United States
R. J. Reynold’s Tobacco Company
the Echo
Echo’ Advertising
Clermont
Wadena
Clayton County
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