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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1895
Page
4
A chaotic miscellany of local notes reports a reader stunningly reading a newspaper through a horse blanket. A girl leaves the room with a remark implying the reader will not stay. The item sits among various notices, a rock blasting death, fishery laws, census counts, diphtheria cures, and a hunting accident.
Hioranee Longfield, fifteen, died at home in West Union after a two week illness, with burial the next day. community sympathy voiced. The issue notes diphtheria in the area, urging quarantine to prevent spread. Also includes travel advertisements for California routes and an original divorce notice for Mary Jang Northrop in Fayette County Iowa seeking a decree after failure to appear.
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