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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1898
Page
5
A fragment from Elisabeth Sylvester mourns spring as a blossoming, flirtatious season with crocus and bloom amid social duties. The speaker contrasts playful imagery with censure, invoking classmates and duties while praising the season’s presence.
A garbled Elgin time table lists noon correspondences across San Francisco Honolulu Washington Havana Canary Islands Madrid London Vienna Moncao Hong Kong Manila Melbourne and Cedar Rapids, followed by Decorah and Peter Johnson machine shops upgrades and a praise-filled report on Northern Iowa machinists and a new boiler testing boiler design.
The document lists uniform monthly pay for National Guardsmen entering service in war matching regular army rates. Ranks range from Private at 8 dollars 18 cents to Brigadier General at 448 dollars 98 cents, with officers from Second Lieutenant at 116 dollars 67 cents to Major General at 2500 dollars per month, plus Chaplain, Surgeon, and Assistant Surgeon at specified sums.
Iowa Farmers Interests cites The New York World for opposing farmer welfare. The piece argues prices for flour eggs meat and canned goods rose due to greed, not necessity, calling for lower costs while noting domestic production will rise and exports may fall during wartime. It also notes A P Book’s career moves and purchase of the Waukon Democrat plant with plans to take the newspaper in June.
A patchwork of humor and local notes from Northeast Iowa and nearby towns. Tramps at Camp McKinley endure labor, Woodmen of Waukon support comrades, editor satire from Lexington Mo, and quips on newspapers and public notices. Mentions Waukon Democrat and LeRoy Independent.
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