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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1917
Page
4
The message outlines travel plans from Elgin by morning train with options to phone or drop a card, enabling a return on the noon train. Alternatively, a visit can be arranged if arriving on the afternoon train, with return on the evening train.
Miss Jessis Medberry and many area families hosted and visited relatives across Illyria and nearby towns. a Red Cross meeting is planned, Y M C A rally drew strong attendance, and several residents traveled to Decorah, Dubuque, and Cresco for events and healthcare.
A poem fragment praising medical volunteers and the duty of service. The speaker, Amelia Josephine Burr, reflects on how acts of care and sacrifice, symbolized by blood and gauze, keep a nation free and pure. The piece urges forgiveness for delays and recalls the cost paid by those who serve.
Customers of The Ken Biscutt Company are asked to return cracker cans for credit. A charge applies if cans are not counted as empties. Bring in any empty cracker cans for verification and refund consideration.
A call to refrain from smoke for a day emerges, urging citizens to send the saved proceeds to support the front lines. The appeal emphasizes collective sacrifice in wartime effort and domestic action to aid soldiers.
Dr and Mrs C G Fothergill visited West Union on Tuesday Blanch Conner travels to Kelley Colorado to visit relatives Wm Kohla and Schori Bros own new Buicks from John Falk Mrs Reidel a West Union guest of her daughter Mrs John Smith and family Adam Boleyn made a business trip to Dundee Monday Mr and Mrs A J Anders from Olwein were guests at the M J Monnahen home south of town for the final of the wack
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