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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1923
Page
7
Local notices show subscription pricing and display column arrangements. One year subscriptions begin in November at $2.06, six months at $1.06. Prices and terms listed for Elgin Echo readers.
Community life in Elgin and Fayette County is sketched with births, visitors, church events, school vacations, and local commerce. Notables include Bert Kohler's new son, Mrs. Floyd Arnold visiting from Manchester, revival and Sunday school efforts, preparations for Salvation Army and health clinics, plus farm and trade notes and brief regional updates.
The text notes small by product coke from bituminous coal as a potential nationwide fuel. It cites Bureau of Mines tests showing coke heats seven to eight room houses as effectively as anthracite. It mentions by products gas light oils tar and jamm ents. It also remarks on early Christmas buying and upcoming winter.
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