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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1903
Page
5
A local business advertises defect free lumber and large scale purchasing to reassure customers. It offers livery and feed services with hay oats corn and ground feed inventory at low prices. The proprietor notes recent property purchase and invites public patronage from farmers.
Fragmentary OCR item notes a sale involving a harness described as suitable for equestrian or work use. Readable bits identify the item type but lack clear buyer, seller, price, or full context. Further text needed for a complete card.
The Northwest Town Independent Telephone association held its second quarterly meeting in Algona with Dr. G W Greaves urging stronger ties and a possible large corporation to unify construction. Attendees included Ward Ferguson, G W Greaves, H Achatz, and others. next gathering slated for Spirit Lake mid July.
A young clerk at a country drug store, which also sells books, searches shelves for Steel's Physics, apologizes to a country school teacher that the title is out of stock, and offers substitutes. The piece notes how St Louis is mispronounced by many, with commentary on anglicized spelling from foreign names.
The Brownies announce the season opening schedule with home games on May 14 and 15 in Algona against Sioux Falls, followed by May 16 and 17 in Sioux City and May 18 and 19 in Sioux Falls. G A Brunson will manage. Arnold's Park grounds will host games under the Algona association management.
After more than a year of illness, Miss Gladys McClellan died Sunday at 4 am from a pleura abscess linked to a December 1961 fall on the sidewalk. A bright M. E. church member who sang in the choir, she was nineteen, born in the county. Rev. Smylie preached the funeral sermon at the M. E. church on Tuesday afternoon as friends gathered to comfort her bereaved parents.
The Seneca Tribe No.65 I. O. R. M. reservation of Iowa issues resolutions mourning Herman A Weygand. They praise his fraternal example, extend sympathy to his family, and request publication in city papers. A stray classroom joke about fractions appears among the text.
The Register-Leader editorial argues Iowa cannot build permanent cement or steel roads and must rely on well maintained dirt roads. Emphasizes drainage, surface leveling, and road bed care, with a road tender to scrape and smooth after rains to prevent ruts. concludes gravel can help where available.
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