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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1922
Page
7
Fragmentary ad shows subscription prices: one year in advance two dollars and six months one dollar. Mentions local display and public notices with unclear place names.
Fayette County news highlights a busy mix of events and notes. Public meetings, school activities, and civic happenings mingle with local business updates, court and hospital mentions, and social events across towns, farms, and markets.
A Detroit News report explains a bank’s bullion department lies 400 feet deep under water, supplying 7000 cubic feet of water per hour. Robbery would require expert swimming and diving, as rising water protects other departments and automatic machinery reacts to coin movement, releasing more water to deter theft.
A compact, era flavored collage of quotations and reflections on Broadway as a place of nocturnal liberty and social observation. The piece blends wry notes on public perception, flattery, friendship, and print versus handwriting to hint at the theater district’s social mythos and the drama of daily life.
The column lists improving illness of Mrs. T W Doar and others, a small town scene with guests at Klingmap home, aWolf hunt near Brackin place, a home talent play In Search of a Husband in Elginopers house, and legal and agricultural anecdotes. It notes Halstenson's donation, a ginseng market, and a remark on movable type history.
Regular section meeting called to order by Mayor Hughes. Roll call shows present councilmen Ongartner Falk Grether Kiple Selior and Baumgartner. Minutes read and approved. Bills approved: Gehring crosswalk work 24.35 Kiple freight drayage 27.87 pumping for AUR and BOpt 81.00 Pr Co N and Ia lights 69.76. Adjournment motion carried. Samuel Mosby Town Clerk.
A Sanborn man, described as the county s cleverest fellow, was found with three pocketbooks and explained their use to his wife. One emptied for flour needs, another holding about a dollar and a half, and a third his own secret funds. Spencer pool hall manager Fox s permit expired and was refused. minors frequented the hall and he pled guilty to allowing them in. The pool hall will remain closed until a responsible manager is found. Christie Miller in a Davenport sanitarium shows slow, uneven improvement. A meat packer notes wholesale meat prices returning to prewar levels, though the processor cannot yet realize it.
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