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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
2
Local items from Elgin Iowa include beets harvest prospects near Mason City, community notices on school and church activities, and a report of infantile paralysis concerns. Word of travels by residents to Decorah and West Union, plus updates on farming, fishing, and small town commerce fill the page.
The state board of control contracts for over 12 000 barrels of flour for state institutions at 4 to 4 25 a barrel or about 1 a 49 pound sack. An evangelist urged back subscriptions as a path to converting a newspaper man. J I DeSart is named champion squash raiser, with a 128 pound squash in John Falk’s market window. An exchange mentions Ringling Bros circus in motion pictures. A butcher jokes on a beef tongue as a moral.
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