04 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
1
A detailed tour of the Gans canning factory shows a capacity of up to 100,000 cans a day when fully staffed, with a peak pack of 2,000,000 cans achieved in one season. Workers husk, silk, and can corn through a sequence of machines, with huskers earning about two cents per box and daily tasks completing as shelves of corn move from husking sheds to filling lines and soldering.
Workers carry empty cans to a large warehouse where they are stacked and labeled. Two boys sit on low stools feeding empty cans into a funnel that leads to the can filler, while others wheelbarrow more cans downstairs. The steady system, led by C. W. Nicklaus, has expanded the business into one of the state’s largest factories.
Prentis M Thomas wed Bila E Herri man Matthew E Boots to Laura BE Learn OG Reisehneker wed Efe M Ross Harry B Gilson tied with Mabel M Shaffer in a sequence of licenses issued by the registry. The seeable entries list multiple couples with names matching residents seeking marriage.
An essay urges fraternal groups and churches to strengthen brotherhood through discreet giving. It argues the rich owe a debt to the poor via opportunity and friendship, and praises lodges as quiet sources of help that avoid public display while promoting practical mercy. It stresses neighborly duty and modest charity as divinely ordered.
Elgin Postville game highlighted Elkader fair day with over twelve thousand spectators. Feeney dominated on the mound as Elgin won 3 to 0 in the eighth inning aided by flawless support, while Postville used several outside players. Umpire officiating was fair. readers enjoyed a royal entertainment day with a mix of sports and aphorisms.
The Rural Mail reports total mail handled in August across routes 4047 and 5098 with 12202 pieces. Average daily handling stands at 471 pieces.
The Arlington News notes controversy over a past Elgin versus Volga City baseball game. It defends the umpire as unbiased and asserts Elgin won fairly through clean play, despite a local push to throw the game to Volga City.
In Dubuque a man named Martin Thompson was jailed at Elkader after a Friday arrest for attempting to runaway with a Guttenberg girl. In Decorah and Ossian, injuries from rail incidents claimed lives as Charles Hargreaves died hours after being crushed in Milwaukee switch yard events, and Albert Severson died following a severe train accident with immediate amputations and fatal blood loss.
Abstract by J W Ainsworth lists transfers in Oelwein and Claremont areas including Glenn A Kids to A R Collins lot 12 block 10 Armstrongs add, GH Brown to A B Collins lot 18 block 15, John Pichard to A B Collins block 16, SL Schneider to A Callina block 18, Wm Mecklenburg to Christina Rowland, Isaac B Countrytan to Hanky Kidm block 5, Isaac B Cobnteane to Henry Kalm block 18, William Boyle to William Sr Mary Boyle lots 1284 and 507% blocks, GL Thompsons Ist add, Robert E Brooks to J R Bolton nw quarter 84 95 9, Frank Blakesley to John Sanborn, Robert Sherman to Mae Morse land in section Aw 2 980, David Lenman to J C Cooley nw nw 20, Henry Biermann to C Borgerdin, Henry Gressman to Ed W Strig ne ny swee & nida s4 aw 50 86 05 7 100 125
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