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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1897
Page
4
An odd mixed ad page promises wood for subscribers and offers numerous patent tonics, including Karl's Clover Tea touted as a laxative and nerve tonic, ShiloW's Consumption Cure, and a Vitalizer. It promotes ground stock feed and a sample copy offer from the Weekly Dispatch, claiming low prices and broad sales.
Thousands seek guidance on travel, food, and cheap routes. Residents ask where to go and how to travel comfortably, prompting a press inquiry to the California Bureau of Information Box 572 in Cedar Rapids.
An 1897 travel notice promotes round trip fares and itineraries from Chicago via New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco with sleeper trains every Tuesday and Saturday. It lists dates January to May 1897, flat rates plus $2.00, various origin stations, and agents offering complete rail information. Also includes cures and remedies for dyspepsia with promotional endorsements.
An early advertisement promotes Shilohs Cue as a remedy for coughs. It notes neglectful coughing is dangerous and urges immediate use. Sold for sale by W H Finke.
Small town classified style notices advertise time services at West Union and the Little Elephant Line Kiln two miles southeast. Various remedies like Shilohs for cough catarrh and constipation plus a home sale in Clermont Town. Addresses include W H Karl and W H Finke with guarantees and free nasal injector offer.
Eighty acre farm three miles west of Elgin with forty five acres plowed, balance pasture and timber. Plus good house and outbuildings. Running water and sturdy walls on place. Offered for sale very cheaply. For details contact Anion Parryson, Brujnertl, Iowa.
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Colwain faces a bitter clash between two new papers The Record and The Register as editors trade slurs and brag about brains and business acumen. Readers are fed edifying but weighty arguments while tensions rise when one side loses influence and moves to open conflict.
Quinn and Cusack were indicted by the federal grand jury of Dubuque for the Waukon post office robbery. Their Dubuque attorney Bowen searched in Waukon for defense evidence. Quinn seeks to cast his confession aside while Cusack and Quinn implicate others. No hearing yet. case likely to be heard at the next court term months hence.
Bernard H Teloken of Fort Atkinson in Winneshieg county was bound over to the federal grand jury by Commissioner Hobbs in Dubuque on a charge of sending obscene matter through the mails. He had bought a fake detective badge from a Ohio agency and persisted in a jealous pursuit of a Fort Atkinson girl, writing a damaging letter to her parents.
A $500 reward is offered by Sheriff J H McGuire of Alamokee County Iowa for info leading to the apprehension or conviction of the party or parties who killed Henry V Duffy at his Waukon Iowa place of business on the night of April 23 1807. Reports of strangers and a Cedar Rapids marriage are also noted with details of the ceremony and newlyweds Miss Bertha Ruth Stahl and John W Felix. The article mentions a Methodist conference in Toronto and Cedar Rapids Route travel offers to the Epworth League event scheduled in July.
A traveler returning from Cuba reports the war's end remains unlikely while Weyler fortifies Pinar del Rio and rebels blend mountain fighting with fortified towns. The observer notes Spanish tribute to foreigners keeps rebellion profitable and that starving peasants in fortified towns suffer most. The piece closes with a sales pitch for Des Moines Daily News at half price to farmers.
Notice announces excursion tickets from B., Co, R, & N. Ry for one fare round trip with sale May 5 and 6 and final limit May 13. Special chair car seats free and through service to St Louis on May 6. Also lists Elgin Mill flour products with pricing and delivery terms from L. Y. Eunucn.
High grade playing cards titled The Cedar Rapids Route offered by B GC BR and N Ry agents with prices 150 per pack, two packs 350, 1.50 per dozen. Order direct from agents or send money order to the undersigned and cards will be sent postage or express paid. J Manton G P and T A Cudur Rapides Ta.
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