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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1918
Page
2
The Elgin Echo outlines weekly publication details with rates and insertion rules. Ads in local columns run consecutively until discontinued and subscriptions cost $1.50 per year or 75 cents for six months.
Local notes from Elgin during the influenza era cover war mobilization, shortages, and public health measures. Reports include medical staff sentiment, influenza deaths and recoveries, school and courthouse updates, and community notices. The piece highlights farmers, merchants, and families adapting to wartime rationing and illness while celebrating weddings and local achievements.
The readers are told that Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh at all stages through constitutional treatment. It claims to strengthen the constitution and destroy the disease’s foundation, offering one hundred dollars if it fails to cure any case. Testimonials are available on request from F. J. Cheney & Co in Toledo, Ohio.
County Food Administrator A. M. Weibel urges four local dealers to stock the Victory Mixed Flour as soon as available. Clarence Schori returns from Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago on a ten day furlough. He recently purchased a $500 Liberty Bond of the Fourth Loan and plans to visit family and friends.
Miss Agnes Turner of Chicago Illinois reports relief from indigestion sleeplessness and general weakness after two months of Chamberlains Tablets. She states the remedy cleansed her stomach invigorated her system and now she can eat and sleep in comfort. Sold by Stoehler's Drug Store.
Mrs. Joby Lehman of La Porte City reports Lola Holland formerly Lola Kalb of Elgin died of influenza. She leaves a husband and a three year old daughter. The Kalb home is listed as 308 Riverside Ave Owaten a Minnesota.
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