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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1920
Page
2
The ad promotes American Lady shoes praised for value and workmanship. It invites early purchases to secure sizing and highlights school shoes for children with savings near half original price. Boys and girls shoes start at $2.75, Mayers Work Shoes reduced from $1.00 to $1.50 per pair.
The advertisement promotes the Buster Brown line of hose as the best value for money in ladies and children's hosiery, urging interest in the current sale prices.
On wool dress goods silks and paplins a 15 percent discount applies to every dress pattern sold. A limited stock sale with low prices to clear. Various fabrics including ginghams percales sheets toweling and corsets advertised with reduced rates and a range of prices for current stock.
A cluttered ad lists canned foods such as sugar flour Jello syrup and peaches from Del Monte and Haris with prices. It also promotes men sweaters tobacco soap and laundry items plus $3.25 overalls and heavy work jackets at a local store.
A blurred ad proclaims wool nap blankets at nine dollars with a false claim of a complete line discount. It mentions Germantown and Spanish yarns and knitting yarns. The note promises surprising overshoe prices and claims to carry only the best grades.
The Elgin Echo lists publication frequency as weekly on Thursdays by FW. Hughes, with Ada in local columns. It notes Ada headings, continuous display ads, and run consecutively until discontinued. Subscription is one year for $2.00 and six months for $1.00.
Elgin area happenings include visits from Mrs. Chas Greenley and Mr Rudy Pfister, a Baptist Young People program, and a notice of Eastern Stars meeting. Local business mentions cover furniture, a Buck Wheat crunching plan, price trends in paper, and a large poultry firm’s 2 million dollar output. A hog house fire near Osage and cattle on a railroad bridge were reported, with injuries narrowly avoided.
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