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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1901
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss political interests, a Clermont representative, and local affairs. It mentions a carpenter and a jeweler in OsIwein, a scandal over a dressmaker wife, and a Fayette county agricultural fair exhibit. Also references diphtheria sickness, a blacksmith Rogers, and a school superintendent.
The Fayette county G A R post held a West Union meeting naming for the coming year L L Ainaworth Wing adjutant and other officers. The Republican party convention adjourned in West Union on Monday Sept 28 for nominating county officials including representative in the legislature county treasurer sheriff superintendent coroner and board of supervisors. In Oelwein the Chicago Great Western shops workers demanded a raise from 1 60 to 1 70 per day and returned to work after the request was shown. Also notes of Old Fort Sperry burnings, Elsie Campbell death, and Wolfram poisoning jury findings are included with local updates.
The article revisits the September 6 shooting of President McKinley by Leon Czolgosz at the Buffalo Exposition and notes the President's improving condition. It compares prior presidential assassinations, outlines legal penalties considered for the assailant, and reflects on national sentiment and hopes for McKinley’s recovery.
The Clayton county district court opened Monday September 2 with Judge Fellows presiding. Reports tell of local arrests, land sales, and a spate of incidents from Decorah to Elkader including a jail sentence for prairie chicken shooting, a fatal kitchen scalding, and a missing funds case linked to a Waukon photographer.
The Elgin Canning Company plans to complete a 1001 pack of sweet corn today, September 12, totaling about 700,000 cans. This is one fourth of last year’s output and one fifth of the company’s expected pack if favorable crops occur, with a drought harming the western crop by about 75 percent. Large orders remain unfilled as advance contracts loom and shortages persist for future delivery.
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