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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
2
In springtime mood and food talk, readers savor rhubarb and strawberry treats as cottony prose shifts to a new law mandating counties to fund free medical care for poor children. A note on battleships visiting a river town ties to religious revival, hinting at Mr Sunday's appeal and local sentiment.
J H Bower and others are mentioned alongside weather notes and local happenings. Vendors, depots, and trains are noted. A Dundee cheese plant shift and a frost damaging crops are described with several names and places such as Decorah Gilmore City Luther College Band and Clayton. An old kettle filled with gold coins dating to 1727 1802 is reported.
Montague Grant of Chicago and his wife were among the Lusitania victims. Grant, a traveling salesman for the American Can Company, had sold millions of cans for the Algon Canning Company and was well known in Elgin for his warm community ties. Reports say their bodies have not been recovered.
C F Weitenhagen notes Henry Wickmann bought a 1020 h p J T Case gas tractor with three plows in Chicago. Tractors for farm work will soon be common locally as power and efficiency rise. The Beacon urges daily resolve and temperance in daily duties.
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