Want Ads Rates and Listings From Elgin Area
A historical want ad snippet outlines rates per insertion, payment terms, and a batch of for sale and rent items. Listings include coal ranges, rain feed sacks, a John Deere 999 planter, a blue Quick Meal range, Avalon theater seats, two free movie tickets offers, and notes on milk cooling equipment and pasture quality. Public notices mention Echo office pickups.
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Want
Howard Boyle
Cleremont
Mighty McGurk
The
Echo
Avalon Theater
Floyd Boye
Elgin
Echo of
Stassen Visits Iowa Speaks at Jefferson
Iowa public life features Stassen visiting Des Moines and Jefferson with notes on judiciary honors for Chief Justice Wennerstrom and Gov. Bive's pending high court appointment. A Des Moines July recruit school will train 50 candidates for the patrol, with about 40 to join. Lions clubs fund a trip for the University of Iowa all-girl Highlander band to San Francisco in July.
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Supreme Court
High Court
Charles W. Wennerstrum
Nuremburg
Iowa
Wennerstrom
Robert D. Bive
Des Moines
Iowa Highway Patrol
Public Safety
al Kahl
S. A. Jesperson
Public Safety Department
Towa Highway Patrol
Statehouse
Army
Davenport
Iowa Lions Clubs
San Francisco
University of Iowa
State of Iowa
Wilbur Schramm
University of Iowa School At Journalism
Virgil M Hancherthas
Leslie Moeler
Local Real Estate Transfers and Marriage Licenses List
Local notices list deeds sold West Clermont Clermont and area including Johnson Edward J to Joseph Olson with 2500 dollars and multiple lot references, and Elmer E to Nora Halverson for 1 dollar. Also Larson to Einora Larson, Amy Medierry to Arvey Berg, Ed N Stray to J A Erickson, adm. with 1 dollar. Marriage licenses May 10 to May 17 include Welsh Ford, Grimes Boyte, Lensing Kapler, Green Stray, Murphy Mitchell, Chase Chase, Wenger Leitch. State of Iowa vs Nick R Am prose OMVT listed.
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Ford
Waucoma
Howard T
Eunice P
P ‘Limer D. Grimes
West Union
Ethel L. Boyte
Danial J.lensing
Calmar
Dorothy Kapler
Jackson Junction
Karl Green
Elgin
Carrie Stray
Wm. Murphy
Fayette
Land
Beverly Mitchell
John Chase
Eva Chase
Pay
Atte
Alfred C. Wenger
Isabel Leitch
Interesting Home Life Interesting School Life
A child’s make believe mirrors familiar surroundings from home and farm to city. Rich out of school experiences boost classroom growth, while a first grade girl with little external input struggles to draw. Space alone cannot sustain a child’s creativity without engagement and guidance.
Hog Market Outlook and a Fatal Driving Accident
Market notes expect marketing hogs to pay dividends next fall and winter after the 1948 fall crop, with a wider spread between light and heavy hog prices due to lard weakness. A fatal accident near Lowdon involved a driver named Kohlhoft whose car overturned after a train failure, with details sketchy in the fragmentary report.
Why Do You Want Me To Go Away
A brief line captures a heated exchange as one speaker asks the other about why distance is requested. The fragment hints at tension and a request for separation within a private conversation.
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Isaac Gehring
D. R. Peasley
National Farm Loan Association
American Cancer Society
Ann Street
New York
N.Y. B.p
Bradley
McCormick-Deering
Joe Brackin
Louis Sutter
Leena
F. R.kimpston
Dial
Eller’s Hardware
West Elgin
Capper's Hatchery
Ein
John Deere
No. 1
Hope
Edwin Loftsgard
Wadena
Mary Washburn
Clermont
Gade Bros
Clarence Bush
G. O. Torkelson
Johnson Block Co
Gami
Lehman’s Hardware
Alta Klingman
Elgin Produce
C. J. Mulford
Hersford
A.M
D. M. McDonald
Delhi
Iawa
Elgin Echo
Postville
Waukon
Sunderman City Service
ONONA
Mr. Zeigler
SSLAN
Cahill's Market
Post Union
Mery
Fecm
Sleader
Jack Sinclair
Jansing
Butch
Patrol
L. H.chancellor
State Health’ Department
Vital Statistics Division
Myrtle Muehlenthaler
Remington Portable Typewriter
Radio
Mrs
Sadie DeSart
Nick R. Amprose
OMVT
Tibeicu Sre
John Tillotson Elgin
Ae Ead
Lowdon
Kohlhoft
Trae ‘Tor
Louis Schutte & Son
Clermont and
Funeral Home
Cal Leo V. Boleyn Dial
Moorman Mfg
Pleasant Valley
Ted ‘Neumann
Tu Yung-Tu
Birmingham
His
Letty
Elgin Opera House
CLUB
Havana
Tom Neal
Margaret
Lindsay
Carlos Menina
Fortungio
Elgin Cooperative
Max Medberry, Mgr
Elgin, Iowa
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