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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1906
Page
1
Ackies weekly newspaper invites readers to contribute. The paper praises Ackley county town in Texas as having waterworks electric lights schools and churches. It notes rail connections ship facilities and a growing economy with multiple creameries flour mills and shops.
A Catholic priest in Wilkes-Barre urges six month courtships with strict limits on calls and engagement, while New York society experiments with mechanical toys as dinner favors to pair guests. Alaska leads gold production, outpacing several western states, as real merit remains evident regardless of reward.
A compact reflection on how solitude and conversation balance one another. The author suggests solitude heals weariness from companionship and conversely, company eases isolation, warning that misery follows those who fail to use these exchanges. The quote attributes the idea to Seuneca.
The notice advertises colonist and round trip tickets to multiple western and southern states at reduced rates for homeseekers, with specific prices and limits. It also urges readers with overdue subscriptions to pay promptly, showing a “yellow label” subscription tracker and asking G. Pal to contact for details.
A compilation of brief Iowa items notes Albia voting on waterworks to be city owned, William Tields of Spencer jailed six months for theft, plans to revive county fair, Swed ish Mission church at Essex destroyed costing 3000 dollars, Sioux City golf club formed, prize money offered at Morning Side College for prohibition essay, real estate sales include 1700 acre Weardharg county farm at 10000, a fire at Christian Reformed church Houx Center causing 7000 loss, counterfeit silver dollars in Council Bluffs, notable moves by local officials and editors, and a light note from Philadelphia about a banquet.
A reflection on human delay in pursuing best deeds and beauty, urging awareness that each day may be the last and every last moment is lost eternity. The author notes how people defer meaningful actions and pleasures, risking regret.
Roomerton considers leaving the boarding house as Flatleigh hints at marriage. Roomerton clarifies he is not marrying but notes his landlady's demand for rent in Chicago News style.
The Agriculture Department aims to educate Americans to value mangoes and other tropical fruits, viewing a possible commercial rise for the industry. Florida Hawaii and Puerto Rico are noted as suitable climates, with India offering the best varieties like Mulgoba and Alphonso.
A garbled OCR rendering recalls Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with phrases about fourcore seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent and a new birth of freedom. It preserves the famous pledge that government shall not perish from the earth and that the dead did not die in vain.
The text discusses mango cultivation notes including time to bearing about six years and profits from early trees. It cites southern growers shipping fruit for $210 from eleven trees, and six-year trees netting $66 per tree. It mentions prices for different mango types, yields per acre, cheap native fruit in Porto Rico, and potential canning uses with recipes like mango marmalade and jelly. It highlights the agricultural department’s varietal selection and forecasts a promising tropical fruit if right varieties are chosen. Also included is a biographical sketch of sculptor Frederick MacMonnies, detailing his early interest in modeling from age five, a wax gum era, and a memory-based elephant statue and frog carving as a boy.
A historian recalls shipboard fare from the Royal Navy hundred years past. Salt pork and beef were stored in obscure victualing yards with meat aging in salt. Sailors reported hard, fibrous moats and odd tales of marvels and disappearances among the gloteting yards as cooks or magicians prepared meals.
A St. Louis Pest Dispatch item notes that Skinner has joined the church, with a witness stating they saw who contributed four dollars in the collection box, prompting questions about the sincerity of his conversion.
Cheap rates to the Pacific coast offered by the Iowa Central Railway from February 1 to April 7 with one-way tickets to California Oregon Washington British Columbia Utah Montana Idaho and Old Mexico at five dollars below the regular fare. Also notes on women education and a feature in The Delineator magazine about The Brides of the White House and fiction by Mary Stewart Cutting and Helen Winslow.
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