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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 28, 1918

Page

4

Thanksgiving Social and Snowbound Rural Notes

Sunday gatherings and visits fill the community as families share thanks and news. Farm trades and cattle sales occur amid a snowbound week. influenza concerns ease yet linger with few cases. Local columns note soldiers abroad and at home, schooling updates, and civic events including a rally, church services, and a theater night.

Dorothy Guison Cecil Richards West Union Josephine Luca Ben Ware Hilda Kilngyman John Howard Junior Hershel Shaffer Kid Matt Klipginin Twrdenn L. Wi McKellar G. Wenger Saday Harry Elsie Yearous J. D. Shaffer Elgin Dorothy Gilson Ray Shaffer Steven Rothlsberger J.H. Bower Helen Mildred Yearous Chas. Ritter Chicago Fred Reichert Dro W. Dex McGrath Rosenow Mayo Brothers Laboratory Rochester Minn France James Boardman Elgin Hotel Hla Jim Boardman Otto Stoshr Des Moines Marines Herbert George Falk Lewis Kingman Harold Greenley Johnny Yenney Fayette Fothergill Henry Robinson Frank Greenley Fairbank A. Welbal Frank Shipton Waucoma O. J. Harrington Roy’ Kimball Roy George Miller Ia Castalin Frank M. BE

Steadier Hog Market Planned Under Food Administration

A Washington conference of the Live Stock Subcommittee and swine representatives reworked price stabilization plans for hogs. Declared aim to support hog prices amid rising production and declining corn values, with minimum packer buys set and a monitoring committee to enforce market logs and export orders under the Food Administration.

Adwilbigtra Lon Argentine South Africa Department of Agriculture Food Administration United States Agricultural Adulsery Board Food’ Administration Verdong Packers’ Committee Wood Administration Chicago Wilson Thomas EB. Wilson Packers Everett Brows Chicago Livestock Exchange Major Roy The Laula D. Hall Bureau of Markets Commie Aion Brown Avery

Trade group listing meat packers from many cities

A long OCR fragment details numerous meat packing companies and their locations across the United States. Names include Armour, Cudahy, Swift, Wilson, Hormel, Kingan, Oscar Mayer, Rath, and others, with cities such as Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, Buffalo, St Louis, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Des Moines, and more. The text references a Packers’ representatives and a Packers’ committee, plus various plants and distribution hubs.

Herbert Hoover Snyder L. Roys Hi. Powell Department of Agriculture Touls D. Hall Ry Mayshall Chicago Wilson & Co John Agar Co Armstrong Packing Co Paling Tex Boyd Dunham & Co Chicagos Y Brennan Packing Co Cincinnati Abattoir Co Cincinnati Cleveland Provisions Co Cleveland Cudahy Bros. Co Cudahy Wis Home Packing & Ice Co Terra Haute Ind Independent Packing Co Indianapolis Abattoir Co Indianapolis International Provision Co Brooklyn N. Y Interstate Packing Co Winona el Loula Lake Erie Provision Co Layston Co Milwaukee Oscar Mayer & Bro Sedgwick Beethoven Streets J. T. McMillan Co St Paul St. Louis Ind Be Louis Sinclair & Co Cedar Rapids Sullivan & Co Detroit Mich Theurer-Norton Provision Co Wilsop Provision Co Peoria Til Western Packing and Provision Co Charles Wollt Packing Co Lopeku Kaa

Hoover to Rebuild Belgium Under Herbert Hoover

Hoover heads a European mission to rebuild Belgium with former prisoners of war aiding reconstruction. He will oversee industrial and economic relief, while continuing food relief duties. The Hoover party, including Robert Taft and John W. Hallowell, sails November 29.

Belgium Smast Herbert C. Hoover Arman Hin Hoover Europe United States Hoover Party Robert ‘Taft Tate John W. Hallowell F. B. ‘Chatfeld Alonzo E. Taylor

Postville Hospital Notes Highlights Local Recoveries

Postville Hospital reports Oscar Colling of Luana greatly benefiting from treatment. Nellie Brainard and Hertha Gasg of Postville along with Joseph B. Peterson of Clermont show good results from medicinal care. Miss Irene Peterson recovers well from a ruptured appendix operation. After three weeks of diabetes treatment, Donald Fett returned home to Luana.

Oscar Colling Luana Postville Hospital Nellie Brainard Hertha Gasg Postville Joseph

The Youth's Companion Calendar Preview

The Publishers of The Youth's Companion announce a calendar for the new year as a premium for subscribers paid through 2919. A gem of calendar making, the decorative moving features and rich design aim to entice readers with a high quality keepsake.

Vague clipped notice from Hogland area item

Fragmentary line reads Dear mothers four lived mately in Hogland area. Text is unreadable and lacks clear event or entities.

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Week Union promotes city growth and services ad hoc

The notice praises the city’s population growth property value gains and strong local institutions including a top newspaper a fine lecture course and a soldiers reunion. It highlights the Weat Union center of travel routes a large garage and urges readers to visit week Union for buying selling renting or financing real estate and farms with available abstracts and lending help.

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