Gasoline flair and community notes at local store
The column records routine items from Finkes' drug store and O. E. S. meeting, plus local chatter. It mentions Adolph Lehman visiting Cedar Rapids, improvements on Main Street, W. W. Rubyor of Rice Lake visiting relatives, and Fred Schupbach and family traveling to New Boston before returning to California. It also covers a South Dakota tale about advertising for a wife, cotton prices, new luggage lines, Stanton fiber workers, and school and harvest moon notes. It concludes with railcar safety plans and meat price effects on consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finkes
Adolph Lehman
Cedar Rapids
Will Cooley
Howard
Main Street
Fred Schupbach
New Boston
Ill
California
T. J. Capper
Fleet Stanton
Elmer Hoag
Northfield
Minn
Local Advertisements and Printing Service Notice
Notice from Elgin post office listing local advertisements in the column with a price of five contes per insertion. Announces monthly accounts payable for the paper and a range of printing services with a yearly advance rate of one dollar fifty and a six month option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Weather and local notices from Oelwein area 1910
The item lists September weather notes and local happenings in Oelwein and surrounding towns. It mentions poultry buyers Capper and Rubyer, typhoid reports in Oelwein, road and farm economic notes, farm and household anecdotes, and several residents’ comings and goings with frequent references to nearby towns such as West Union Fayette and Elkader. It reflects a busy community paper style with advertising inserts and local interest items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Kohler
West Union
Elizabeth Kohler
Oelwein
State Board of Health
Ed Bauder
Maynard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jewel
Coal
Fred
W. W. Rubyor
Rice Lake
Wis
Mr. Rubyor
North Country
South Dakota
THE
ECHO
North Eastern
EL W. Hughes
Finke
Fred Muehlenthaler
Dakota
Max Hunsberger and
Country
Thos. Knudteon Tena
Clare Nelson
Minneapolis
Ann Elizabeth Butikofer
Communia Mutual Insurance Company
Harry Hadsel
Uncle Sam
Post Office
Concord
New Hampshire
Chicago
Capper's
Eniel & Rubyer
Herbert
George Falk
Elkader
Dr. Hutchinson
Elpin
C. G. Monnahan
Annie Washburn
Dora Mathews
John Breckenridge
Decorah
Frank Kimball
Lulu Cathout
Luana
Boone
Miss Oathout
Tacoma
North Iowa Times
Leslie Cooley
Earl
Turkey River Junction
U.S
West Union- Turkey River Run
Frank Seaver
Iowa
Minnesota
United States
N. H. Adams
Timothy
Princillas
Chicago, Ill
Robert Earle
Fayette
Minnie Earle
G. Monnahan
Elgin Auto
Nichols
Christian Endeavor Union
Illyria Union Church
Hans Keiser
Thomas Baldwin
Des Moines
Oelwein ‘Register
Nelle Stoehr
Postville
Genevra Fennell
Chas Smith
Thief River Falls
Chas
U. S
Ralph DeSart
West Bend
DeSart
Boies Capper
Joe Potter
Columbus Junction
Davis
Boies
Wantep
Cosmopolitan
H. C. Campbell
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Broadway
New York City
Scott
Weibel Bros
Elgin, Iowa
Emerson Gang
H. T. Knudtson
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