Elgin Rural News Notes and Local Advertisements
A collage of Elgin area items includes mill and canning updates, new buildings, floods of local prices, and ball games. Reports mention Capper Shaffer's dry goods, Doan and Doan enterprise, Elgin Farmers Dairy, and a public silo incident. Local politics, wages, and a cross section of oddities show a lively town with movers and shakers, sightings of a seven foot gray eagle, and a forthcoming grand ball at Clermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millar & Miller
Doan & Doan
Sam Greenley King
Elgin Farmers’ Dairy
Elgin Canning Company
Francis Gage
Finke
O. i
Doug
Goto Capper
Shaffer
Opera House
Opera
Louse
Carpentar
Cappor& Shaffer
Grothig
Clermont
Capper & Shaffer's
Frank Bohanan
Watenpaugh
Anjoy
Beggar
Addy
Gunderson
Twin
Emulsion Purchases Highlight Value and Weight Gain
A buyer pays six to eight cents a pound for flesh, a frail young woman buys twelve pounds of flesh for a dollar bottle of Scott's Emulsion and gains twelve pounds. The ad claims variable values and promises money back and free samples from Scott & Bowne at 409 Pearl Street New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Clermont items mix repairs marriages and river lows
Local notes report Mrs Peter Lehman adding a cement approach to her porch. Decorah Posten editor B Annindgen elected president of a national Norwegian society. Vermonters urged to send names and birth details to a Des Moines box to organize a local society in Iowa. Miss Cathout the artist visited and others planned a painting festoon. River Mississippi high water disrupts record levels. Marriage news from Clermont via Sioux City, Elgin social games, and farm sales feature in this community roundup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Lehman
B. Annindgen
Decorah Posten
Minneapolia
National
Norwegian Sovieties of America
Mississippi
Sioux City Journal
Frances Matilda Appelman
R. B. Appelman
Clermont
George Wallace Wilking
Sioux City
George Stirling
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kniel & Rubyor
Grogeries
AT & Bargain
Capper & Shaffer
Depot
Elgin
Iowa
R Boan
Doud & Shaffer’s
Elgin, Iowa
Dosh & Doan
Towa
Fotindah Capper & Shuffer's
G. A
Mlyria
Ayer
Mountain
Omer
Stoehr
Postville
Algona Brownies
Winipeg
Hansa
Gus Becker
Becker
Rubyer
West Union, S
Cedar Rapids
E.W. Brigham
Board of Supervisors
Clayton County
Wm. Wankastern
Elkport
East Eliport
South
Alabama Minstrels
All Star
Haar
Armour & Co
West Union
Connor
Republicana
Superior Court
Elliot
F. L. Gilliland
Elliott
Gilliland
Ming
Jay Cook
Hawkeyes
Hawkeye
Pearl Street
New York
Buck's
Buck
Ghris Lehman
The
Elgin Roller Mills
Schori
Weibel
Cathout
Harwood
Brainard
Rock Island Road
Fred W. White
Green
Osage
Fred Schneider
Mr. Green
Elder Green
Fred White
Seattle
Ler. Haryel
Juyny & Kove Bros
John Sehveyer
Gohl Hly
Aare
Pleasant Valley
Chivis Dendler
Vonsteraction
Bopp
Moser & Toman Hun
Uts
Bouo
Glermont Danging Association
Puhpukkeana Hall
NeCall
Curerolltan
Bosworth
Daphy
Elgmn
Center Street
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