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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1917
Page
2
The Hawkeye Gasoline and Kerosene agency advertises draying of all kinds with prompt attention and reasonable charges. They offer delivery to any part of the city and provide a residence phone number for contact.
Old papers for Bale at the Echo office. If you need some for under your carpet come and get them. Ward reports Walter Vinton has been transferred to the aviation corps and will likely excel. Dr. H. S. Wright of West Union becomes first lieutenant in the dental reserve corps. A call for a new Liberty Loan system is urged. Walter Kohs sends Earn Holver a roster of Co. D., Gist Inf., now at Charlotte, NC, as they prepare to go overseas. Walter, like other Elgin boys, is doing his part.
A collage of wartime notices, sales blurbs, personal updates, and local happenings. It references the Second Liberty Loan oversubscription, soldiers' letters from Camp Dodge, trips to Cedar Rapids and Mt. Vernon, local business ads for Economy Flour and Weibel Bros, Red Cross activities, and community reports on holidays, schooling, and light and power restoration. The piece weaves in moral exhortations, postal changes, and regional chatter on conservation and inflation.
In a Saturday Evening Post excerpt, the author condemns Copperheads who argued against victory, saying they urged surrender and mocked sacrifices while claiming the war failed and liberty was misused by Lincoln. The piece contrasts those views with calls to defend the Union.
McGregor, by C. M. Brooks, shot a pure white wild duck in the Tice fields near McGregor on the Mississippi. The albino, part of a Targa flock, is the first white wild duck longtime Mississippi hunters recall seeing. Experts explain the albinism causes white feathers and red eyes, noting the bird’s rarity in nature.
The Mt. Vernon Record argues that sale bills on trees or poles lose readers as people switch to cars and horses fade. It notes sale bills are obsolete and that the best way to reach buyers is newspaper ads that remain in homes where people have time to read.
As men age their food needs shrink and the stomach becomes a light eater. At 86 or 90 some eat too much and suffer. Chamberlain's Tablets help correct the disorder by strengthening the stomach and aiding natural function. Gentle bowel movement follows. Sold by Stoshr & Co.
The Wadena Red Cross hosts an auction on Saturday December 1 featuring horses hogs poultry and other articles to keep two auctioneers busy all day. Ladies of the Red Cross will serve dinner, and attendees are urged to arrive early and bid high. Remember the date and place for this charitable sale.
A promotional piece extols West Union as a political religious and social hub in a large county. It highlights schools, water sewer drainage lighted streets parks trees churches growth population newspapers fairs Chautauqua Ros retreat courses hospitals and infrastructure. It offers real estate services and farm and house transactions to attract buyers renters and sellers.
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