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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1904
Page
5
The Travis Johnson cattle stealing case at Weat Union this week remains incomplete. The judge will deliver an order on the case in due course.
A historical plea urges universal smallpox vaccination amid anti vaccination campaigns. Chicago cases rise. a daughter of a lawyer family contracts smallpox despite vaccination. Health department creed promotes vaccination as the sole preventive measure and stresses strict medical standards and scar evidence.
A home talent event at the Elgin opera house drew a large town crowd. Delegates, chosen for beauty and charm, delivered songs recitations and dances with praise from the audience. Proceeds of 445.82 go to the M E church society. organizers credit Mrs. W H Finke for the effort and hint at a possible reprise.
Old timers predict mild open weather as muskrats delay building their houses signaling continued summerlike conditions. The Echo carries ads from Vikdal the photographer and others, with reads on merchants and local notices. Mr and Mrs Robert Pringle visited at the Frade Desart Honte in Clermont on Sunday.
A Sunday service joke unfolds as a drunken man, seated in a deacon’s pew, is invited to stand when the preacher faults vices and later calls out the hypocrite. The man humorously prompts the deacon to rise, urging him to take the stance as he does, for humor amid sermon critique.
Samuel Wescott, central Iowa's oldest man at nearly 103, was buried Friday in Glade Brook. A longtime Methodist, he was born February 16, 1902, in New York and asserted he witnessed the first steamboat on the Hudson.
In Cresco a suspected grocers trust or combine has allegedly raised local grocery prices above neighboring towns. Residents seeking relief buy goods by mail as the combine tightens control, driving business away and drawing scrutiny. The Times requests information and public discussion on the issue.
A district teacher famed for keeping "bachelor's hall" was fed by nearby farmers. A boy asked if the teacher liked pork, and the man declared he did. Weeks later no pork appeared, until the boy explained the pig had gotten well.
A column argues whether supporting a dependent son to age twenty one costs parents thousands, weighing future returns of responsible work and self reliance. It cites Woodmen district deputy H J Bentley enrolling seven brothers in Littleport Clayton county, ages 20 to 38, a record they claim may be unmatched. Roy Meyer returns from work at Remeen.
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