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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1914
Page
2
An advertisement from F. Miller offers gasoline and kerosene delivery across the city. It notes agency for The Hawkeye and provides a residence phone contact.
School notes detail sick lists and absences, visits by M Yenny Frances Pinney Edna Hunsberger and Edith Keiser, plus Bertram Olson’s illness and Edna Hunsberger’s primary visits. Activities include Arrow and Erodelphian society programs, numerous visitors from Frankville and La Porte City, a Halloween party at the Nicklaus home, and Mrs Hadsel’s trip to Davenport to see her son. Also noted are local dance invitations, a fine new girl at Olaf Berg’s, and a missing guest list correction for a Shaffer home event.
In this Elgin centric paragraph, local residents and businesses share updates on upcoming dances, auctions, and Sundays visits. It notes a Burns farm accident with injuries, Hallowe en observations, and reports on a new barn scaffold collapse. Community members travel, shop, and gather for church and social events amid town announcements.
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