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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1918
Page
7
The Branch House is a Swift & Company facility in distributing centers nationwide. It stores meat with refrigeration and is run by experienced managers who optimize fresh, affordable meat delivery from packing plants to dealers, ensuring the product reaches customers quickly and in peak condition.
The page mixes ads and notes on fuel deliveries and local services with war bond appeals and public health updates. It cites Miller and Grover in Eugene Stahl’s chimney work, peanut oil crop expectations, a Salvation Army message from France, the Fourth Liberty Loan drive starting September 28, and Mayo Clinic aid for infantile paralysis in Spring Grove. It also reports cattle anthrax near LeMars, rising used car prices for Fords, seed corn reminders, and a fatal fall of G. C. Jensen of West Union.
A long mix of wartime items, local census plans for physicians, farm tips on poultry and sugar use, and Elgin school notes describe teachers, student enrollment, renovations, and a near fire incident at the Hunsberger home. Also mentions Beall enlisting for Y M C A work and farm field yields of 31½ bushels per acre.
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