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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1913
Page
7
Business owners warn unsettled accounts will be turned to collectors within days. A TL plans to depart Ackley soon, while a first class gasoline engine is offered at half price. Also selling old newspapers, a lost locket with engraved name Juanite, and a found auto tire with pickup details.
The city page highlights Roben's Bargain Store with sales on underwear and flannel at low prices. Local residents heard notes on paying taxes promptly, and several visitors and residents are mentioned including M Konberg from Waterloo selling brooms and Frank Thornton visiting Mason City with telephone workers.
The revenue cutter Tharmaar, en route from Nome to Point Barrow, Alaska, battled towering ice and currents on the Arctic pack. Captain Ballinger reported the ship wedged between two grounded bergs with only feet to spare, then steered to clear water and anchor east of the point. Parcel post shipments via natives sending fox skins to Seattle are noted as a new mail service. In local note, a drainage district near Robertson seeks about 100000 for improvements, a shift from past reluctance to heavy local spending. Mrs. Charley Wahl, wife of a Miingis Central engineer, died in Ackrey Waterloo bound traffic. five children survive. Daniel Milay was at Vidars on legal business Monday.
New York City faces a mayoral race that draws national attention with a fusion ticket challenging Tammany Hall. William Gaynor seeks re election as an independent, while fusion pick John Purroy Mitchel aims to defeat the Democratic machine. Judge Edward McCall, retiring from the bench, joins the Democratic slate for public services chair.
Harry K. Thaw, the Stanford White slayer, was closely guarded in Sherbrooke jail after his capture on Canadian soil. Despite some sympathy among local Canadians, authorities kept tight watch and reduced guards only sparingly as Thaw faced extradition considerations and potential escape attempts.
Notes of local social visits in Waterloo Balmond Grundy Center and Parkersburg with names like G Carlaon HN Schultz and Luella Meyer. Brief items on Botany department discoveries and a Mount Popocatepetl railway temperature change. Paris auction of a petrified man from Patagonia with ancient wounds.
Washburn a small town of about 300 near Waterloo will lose its post office on October 1 after the current postmaster resigns and no one in the village, not even a Democrat, seeks the job.
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