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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
4
In this notice patients coming from Bigin on morning trains may phone or drop a card to save time and return on the noon train, or come on the afternoon train and return on the evening train. Driving or train arrivals receive a special price. The optical office boasts finest equipment in Iowa and twenty years of successful optical work.
A handwritten paste of items from Waukon Democrat era includes personal visits from Edith Keiser, condolences for a lost child, twins born to Mr and Mrs Isaac Monahan, and home renovations by M W Kiple and Carl Daquette. News covers illness, a Hallows party, paper pricing shifts, flags for Iowa schools, Mundy the author, regional travels, a post accident, and a house fire attempt with suspicious context.
Mr W E B Walters of the U S Department of Agriculture spent Wednesday in Fayette county with County Agent Combs examining the White Grub. The pest threatens corn timothy and potatoes in spring 1918. Eastern Fayette is in the White Grub zone and crop rotation is advised to prevent planting corn after a sequence of timothy or small grain. May beetles of 1917 laid eggs, producing grubs that will damage roots next summer. For more information contact the County Agent.
A broad 1917 West Union page item lists a street sale on Saturday November 3 at 1:30 pm in Davenport area with furniture and household items including beds, sewing machine, dining set, stoves, cans, and other goods. The item also notes residents visiting Ardent Cedar Rapids, jury duty, and local church events with sermons by Rev. Minkey and school teachers attending a state institute, plus Halloween activities and a church social raising funds for local needs.
Catarrhal deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tube mucosa. Local applications fail. only constitutional remedy helps. Hall's Catarrh Medicine supposedly acts through blood to mucus surfaces. $100 reward for any cure it cannot achieve. Circulars free at druggists, 75 cents. F J Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio.
Mrs ALO Kirstein of Greenville Illinois reports Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been a trusted cure for her family for years especially for colds and bronchial troubles. The ad notes sales at Stophr & Co and tickets for an opera house show Saturday evening with weather a warmer day.
Promoting West Union describes it as a booming county seat with a large population gain, strong property values, top schools, water and sewer systems, lighting, parks, churches, and a healthy economy. It highlights major institutions, media, fairs, Chautauquas, a hospital, roads, and a large garage, inviting real estate and business interest.
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