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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1906
Page
4
A note seeks tenants and farm owners, offering first-class security and moderate rates. Multiple inquiries flow in for one to five year rents. invites farm owners to contact J. W. Bopp for terms and to arrange discussions for good tenants or farms.
An old advertisement promotes Kodol Digests What You Eat as a cure for indigestion and stomach troubles. It claims the product uses natural gastric juices to cleanse purify and strengthen the stomach mucosa and aids conditions like sour stomach belching and dyspepsia. A Ravenswood West Virginia customer testimonial is included.
Illyria District items recount Sunday visits and gatherings across families including Shaffer, Reichert, Wenger, Fritz, and Robins. Several residents travel to West Union Fayette and Elgin, with school reopening and teachers named. An obituary-like illness note mentions Mrs Luther Shaffer, while a health testimonial praises Electric Bitters as a cure.
Gossip on visits and illnesses, a wedding mention, school openings, and community milestones from Oak Grove and West Union. Local families, teachers, and neighbors like the Kohlers, Boyle, Wilsons, Raffertys, and Fennells are cited along with travel, farming accidents, and notes from Clermont, Maynard, and Dover township.
Auction on September 25 at 10:00 am features 48 cattle including milk cows and calves 8 horses 29 shoats 300 chickens 16 tons hay and household items. Terms: cash under $10, credit over $10 with 8 percent interest, pickup at removal, Duway auctioneer. G J Harrington clerk. B A W B CONNER props.
Mrs. Ora A. Stephens of Port Williams writes that three bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery stopped a two year cough and cured consumption fears. The druggist Muehlenthaler Bros. guarantees the remedy with price five cents and one dollar trial bottle offered.
Miss Ella Pringle visits Clermont friends while Miss Mary Caldwell heads to Cedar Falls for normal school. Rev. R V Porter returns to Hopkinton to visit relatives. Fred McKinley heads to Notre Dame as a student. Miss Rose Schaefers to Pleasant Grove Utah for teaching. Earl Saffer resumes duties at Oelwein business college. Kittle Groth heads to South Dakota for a hunting fishing month. Gus Becker and son join family in McGregor then Dubuque by steamboat. E O Levi buys three Poland China pigs at state fair and negotiates for a Mr Ash herd animal. In St Peter’s Catholic church Fay Well ages 18 and John Rafferty 72 wed. ceremony by Rev M J Farrellly. Cupid’s joke fuels nearby chatter.
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