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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1905
Page
4
Dance Friday evening September 16 brought town and visitors together. Numerous residents plus out‑of‑town guests are noted, with school opening, church events, fair attendance, and visits among families. A Postville club game and local store changes are recorded, along with an advertisement for Bocklaw’s Arrive Salve.
Daisy Smith drove to Fayette Friday. The Gleanera met at the Stansberry home Saturday evening. Mrs. Simon O Neill visits this week with her mother. Fay Fishback left for Davenport. Wallace Peters and mother dined with the Smiths. Grandma O Neill visits relatives. School began in District No 9 with Nora Conner as teacher. Moonlight ride enjoyed by some youths. Perry Craft left for New Hampton. Howard and wife visited Enos Howard. Kate Measerly and Minnie Fennell visited Fennell home. Dr King’s New Life Pills marketed locally for constipation and headache. Geo Baldwin returned from the G A R encampment in Denver.
A fragment from a 19th century column tells of a juror who credits a cholera remedy for curing himself and two fellow jurors after a trip to the drugstore. The piece then shifts to county coal production figures and local society notes, noting Des Moines valley counties and Monroe leading output. It ends with public health advice and local social happenings, including visits and upcoming events.
A garbled assortment of local advertising and town notes recounts a cough medicine pitch at a drugstore, moves of millinery stock, a New Mexico visitor, farmer town pride, growing newspaper subscriptions, a praise for Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and a Maynard Sunday School Convention update, plus editor jokes about a stubborn local figure.
Bulletin No 25 promises the largest property sale bulletin in the area and offers free mailed copies. The ad lists property sales and rentals, farms for rent, tenant sourcing services, and loan options with no listing charge unless a sale occurs. It invites selling, mortgaging, or renting properties and mentions abstracts and contact via office and Linden Park residence phones.
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