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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1903
Page
7
The Markets-Corrected Weekly lists corn at 25 to 30 cents, oats at 10 cents for typical grades, wheat from 60 to 65 cents, barley around 28 to 35 cents, and hogs priced at 8 to 20 cents. Butter stands at 18 cents a pound and eggs with unspecified figures.
A conglomerate of town notes covers concerts and visits from Mrs. Cronin to Eagle Grove, Wm Ehler’s New York trip, staff changes at the Durdall, and town gossip on a fountain repaint and a looming Fourth of July event. Mentions of beaming cantatas, Seeboeck in Algona, weddings, and church activities fill a lively community roundup.
We express heartfelt thanks to friends who kindly assisted during months of care and for floral and other remembrances in our last sad bereavement. S. B. McCnennan and FAMILY.
In Emmetsburg at a city convention the Irish faction controlled the ticket and after exhausting candidates a delegate nominated Patrick O’Hara for justice of the peace. When asked his identity the reply noted he is a friend in Ireland who will be over on the next steamer.
The town of Algona elects its mayor with no opposition, a decisive without dissent. Also noted are a dancing school event on Tuesday April 21 at 7:30 featuring The Three Step taught by Miss Fir, a business dissolution notice for Layer & Fishel with Sol Fishel taking over, and Hermann P Layer fading from the partnership. Stock pasture wanted by G F Brown in Algona Iowa.
Cheap round trip rates to Los Angeles May 21 to June 2 for Presbyterian assembly. Iowa Central R. A. will sell tickets from Algona to Los Angeles or San Francisco at 49.90 for the round trip. Travel May 12 to 18 with return until July 15. Stopovers allowed both ways. For details contact local agents or A B Cutts P T A Minneapolis Minn.
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