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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
5
The Congregational church youth staged a lively event titled a trip around the world to raise funds. A large Boston crowd enjoyed staged stops from Germany to Japan and Manila with costumes, music, refreshments, and comedic tourist sights. The event featured notable locals, a Teddy Roosevelt segment, and a playful mock tour culture.
Burt's Enterprise reports strong early success as rural telephone lines connect eleven routes to about a hundred homes in Burt, improving contact with Algona and nearby towns. Directors listed include Dr. W. T. Peters and Lincoln Tall. timely updates provide a home-by-home roster across routes 90 to 160.
An Eddyville town clash between horse traders and authorities left James St John fatally wounded in the abdomen. Town Marshal John McHugh was shot in the arm, Harvey Pea wounded in the chest and collarbone, with his wife shot in the ankle. The traders lived in covered wagons and resisted arrest as shots were exchanged from both sides.
A. R. Levy of New York found a ten dollar gold piece with two diamonds and the initials P. O. B. in a cod’s stomach during a bassing trip on the king banks. Patrick C. Evans of Kansas claims the coin as his own after a morning paper published the tale.
Miss Edith Bowyer directs a concert next Tuesday at the Congregational Church featuring Selections on the pipe organ after the main program with Miss Edna Lucas highly recommended as a vocalist and other leading talents noted as first class. The notice includes local remarks on patronage and the event’s prominent organizers.
Last Thursday afternoon H R Rider swallowed lye by mistake after his wife left a lemonade pitcher near a lye preparation. He poured a glass he thought was lemonade, tasted it, then sought medical aid. The only current effect is internal soreness. Uncle Samuel Sullivan, over sixty, tried riding a grain binder for the first time this week. He has long worked with mowing and blacksmithing, then farming, and finally found novelty in riding a reaper while assisting farmer W Q Dowden with oat cutting.
Two Japanese settlers filed on land in Ward county marking likely the first Japanese filings on United States lands. One man spoke good English and said he would grow wheat and ship it to Japan, then bring back silk. The Bottineau News notes the unusual entry and ties it to settler spirit.
The Brownies remain the nation’s top colored team and Iowa champions after defeating the Chicago Union Giants in a series noted for fierce rivalry. Giants won only three of fourteen prior games and lost five since the last issue, including a 14 to 3 defeat at Albert Lea and a 4 to 3 loss at Maxwell. A Saturday 2 to 0 shutout and Sunday 7 to 4 win at Des Moines capped a hard fought clash, though tempers flared in a sixth inning melee when Johnson of Algona collided with Campbell of the Giants, triggering a bench brawl before police restored order and play resumed.
A local man in Buffalo Center showed a new chemical claimed to prevent gasoline explosions. He pours a few drops into a gallon of gasoline in a five gallon can and tests it with heat or a flame. The presenter seeks an agent to market the product, selling small cans for fifty cents, with one can reportedly treating fifty gallons. The claim is described as a great wonder in the Buffalo Center Tribune.
The Spirit Lake Beacon lauds former Algona M. E. pastor Reverend Bennett Mitchell for fifty years in the ministry. After his Sunday sermon at the M. E. church, the paper notes his lasting vigor of intellect and message of character. Mitchell preached here two times in the eighties and is described as outstanding in intelligence and Christian conduct among pastors.
Messers Rantzow and Pat Thomson depart for Newhall to display a wheel of fortune at the fair. The new wheel uses 52 boards of cedar wood and, with painting, cost 35. They plan to stay a week hoping to make a fortune.
Old creamery managers and buttermakers buy Alpha DeLaval separators. Every creamery in gi2 county uses DeLaval for long feed close skimming easy roping and all around satisfaction. Spurbeck Lambert Company Algona Iowa offers prices and catalogue.
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