Want Ad Rates and Local Classifieds Elgin Area
Advertising rates for want ads are outlined with 25 words cap at 26 cents per insertion and 1 cent per word thereafter. Listings include For Sale items such as broilers at Cappar Hatchery Elgin and Royal standard typewriter. help wanted and work wanted notices. Strayed hog. used stove. and various local business notes. Also mentions payment terms and billing charges, plus a request to support local merchants.
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Want
Balanced Rock Destroyed Near Decorah
The Balanced Rock, a famed Winneshiek county beauty spot three miles northeast of Decorah, is gone. Visitors found a large timber nearby suggesting it was pried loose, though no proof exists whether natural erosion or vandalism caused the disappearance. Decorah Journal reported.
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Winneshiek County
Decorah
W. F. Baker
Why He Returned to Holland
An old Dutchman explains the oddest thing he observed in the United States. He describes the cocktail mixed by Americans as whiskey for strength, water for weakness, gin for heat, ice for cold, lemon for sour, and sugar for sweetness, followed by the toast and their own drinking.
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Holland
United States
Base ment find of old currency unearthed by Nick Schlegel
While cleaning his basement last week Nick Schlegel discovered two tobacco cans filled with aged discolored money believed buried for years. The coins and notes were taken to Jesas Bank and sent to Washington DC for redemption per a local report in the Hawk Eye Beacon.
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Nick ‘Schlegel
Jesas Bank
Washington, D. C
Hawkeye Beacon
Little Eight League Allows Any High School Attendee to Play
The Little Eight baseball league adopts a new rule permitting any boy who attends the town’s high school to participate in league games. Play can proceed without advance notice to opposition clubs or officials.
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Little Eight Baseball League
Township Filings For Primary Election In Fayette County
A list of township candidates filed for the upcoming primary in three northeast Fayette County townships. Pleasant Valley shows Republican and Democrat contenders for justice of the peace, constable, trustees, clerk, assessor, and party posts. Clermont and Illyria townships list multiple Republican and Democratic filings for justice positions, trustees, clerk, assessor, and party committee roles with several surnames repeated across townships.
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Fayette County
Pleasant Valley Township
Gus Gundersson
H. W. Falk
Nels
Olson
B.D. Yack
B. H. Brackin
A.B. Jacob
Lyo F. Wilson
Arthur Chapman
H. B. Gilson
Frank W. Lyon
R. P. Strauch
R. W. Muehlenthaler
Nella J. Capper
Clermont
S. E. Wickham
E. E. Buser, Jr
George
M. Larson
Joe Malone
Albert Anderson
Township Trustes
Roy Tatro
H. F. Gri
W. A. Kneeland
Frank Fay
Henry Kittleson
James Powers
J. C. Halverson
Geo, P. Rounds
Ella Johnson
Grace M. Cooley
Illyria
Albert Dennler
L. Hunsberger
Ed Raffia
Tred Techantz
John W. Flanagan
Geo. A. Lewis
L. L. Shaffer
Guy Ernst
Roth Asberger
F. H. Meyer
Madge Corkery
Wholesale Massacre Reported by Livy In Termi Province
Profeasor Conatanzi claimed to have found the BTotlo in Termi where the Homang in 803 B C killed 2,000 ban dita. The event is cited as a wholesale massacre recorded by Livy.
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Conatanzi
Termi
Iowa's vast concrete highways and industrial strength
Know Iowa and its wealth. Iowa boasts over twenty thousand miles of surfaced highways, vast parks, and scenic rivers. It leads in farm values, crop output, and per capita wealth, with a strong manufacturing base. Local notes cover Memorial Day closings and travel homeward.
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Towa
Iowa
United States
Jowa
Ita
Pottawattamie
Vermont
New Hampshire
Delaware
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Nevada
Cedar
Clinton
Crawford
Jasper
Kossuth
Marshall
Polk
Plymouth
Shelby
Sioux
New York
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Mississippi
Arkansas
Colorado
Washington
Oregon
Montana
Elgin bankers attend Iowa meeting amid district turnout
Attendees included Samuel Mosby Gordon Mosby B U Baumgartner and W F Kohler of Elgin State Bank. Eight counties form the district with about a hundred bankers expected. A Andrew state loan superintendent spoke. plans included a visit to Decorah for the Iowa bankers association event and funeral attendance for George Neuenschwander drew relatives from California Wisconsin and Iowa.
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Dr. H
Hadnel
Postville
Oxford
Ohio
Fred
Samuel
Gordon Mosby
Bu' J, Baumgartner
W. F. Kohler
Elgin State Bank
Decorah
Iowa Bankers’ Association
A. Andrew
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Cappar
Elgin
Bette
Kenneth Evans
Lew Martie, Ra
Agp
Selma Nelson
Poland
China
Reynold Strong
Royal Standard Typewriter
Echo
Feller
West Elgin
B. J. Baumgartner
McOrmick
Scormick - Deering
Parta
Tyre
Egies
MecCormick-Deering Hay Toole
Torkelson Bros
L A. C
Farm Implements
Chrysler
Goodyear
Auto & Tractor
John Kotler
Jack Schurge
Weat Bend
Waterloo
Della Falk
Opera House
L. B. Carter
Moorhead
Mr.Gordon
Erma Grether
Pocahontas
Palmer
Gertrude Grether
Lloyd Swartley
le Mars
O. W. Heiserman
West Union, Iowa
George Neuenschwander
Chas, Neuenschwander
Harold Neuenschwander
Los Angeles
Calif
Arthur . Neuenschwander
Sioux City
Lee Newenschwander
Colfax
Wis
John Cunningham
Volga City
Ida Lehman
John Lehman
la Porte City
Elizabeth Neuenschwander
John Neuenschwander
Fayette
Vern ‘Lehman
Cedar Rapids
Elgin Echo
Henry H. Wolf
M.D
Baumgartner
Phons
Res. Phony
Frank Howard
Elgin Elgin, Iowa
Hadsel Ovalier
Baste
Weibel Mill Elgin
R. A. Crider Veterinarian
Phong
J. Neasham
Elgin, Iowa
Jakie Yeatous, Jr
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