31 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
2
Editor F Reed announces subscription rates for three months as the Algona post office itemized public notices indicate price figures and mailing terms. The notice dates back to September 1901, reflecting early 20th century rate structures for periodicals and mailings in Iowa.
The Kossuth County Agricultural Society adopts the Iowa score system for corn judging to replace prior prize formats. The new scale covers true type, ear shape, color, grain, market condition, tips, butts, kernels, ear length, circumference, furrows, kernel spacing, and cob proportion, totaling 100. The move aims to raise farmer ambition and improve corn quality for future fairs.
A settler recalls gophers that reminded him of forest chipmunks and squirrels. He mourns the vanishing prairie, its liberty and hardships, and the sealing of land as fences replace open lands. The ridges are fenced, and there are no new countries to discover. The race must adapt to a world owned, occupied, tilled.
A whimsical piece describes a girl who loves typography and aims to be a typographic miss. She learns to space lines and letters, then faces a broader marital counsel urging affection and restraint. The text interweaves playful OCR garble with moral advice about romance and devotion.
James A Orr advertises a liquid roof preservative claimed to seal wood, tin, iron, and cloth roofs and porches. He cites two year old cloth test showing no water penetration and invites visitors to see the product at Li Shop on Call Street. Also promotes Hallister's Rocky Mountain Tea with money back guarantee and Taylor's vanilla ice cream with chopped nuts as consumer notes.
Norm Collar reports a monthly milk check of 73.20 dollars from 12 cows, with last month similar. One cow, a farrow heifer now dry, is included among full blooded Shorthorns. the herd’s feed consists solely of pasture grass with no additional ration.
An officer escorting Jacobson on a M and St L train to Forest City lets him visit the toilet then Jacobson locks the closet door and leaps out the window escaping. The officer returns to find the prisoner gone.
The Advance editor is urged to avoid Branagan at Emmetsburg for risky details. Reed Whittemore Champion notes Branagan may scoop the news if untested. Similar social looseness exists at Mmnichsburg, where police are described as sleepy and fail to detect the racket.
Notices are being served on about 250 parties for the Winnebago Kossuth drainage ditch. Interstate Drainage Investment Co has moved its ditching machine from Freeborn to Kossuth and will start work within days after completing the Lime Creek ditch in Freeborn County.
Former Wesley School principal and now lawyer and political figure Sergeant Bluil J I11 spoke at a gathering of old settlers. He recalled the prairie passage of emigrant life describing wagon bodies, canvas tops, and oxen under shifting skies, with vivid imagery of winter cold, spring thaw, and the sea of grass sheltering birds and wildlife.
The notice traces A. Peterson, former manager of Wesley News-World, as he abandoned the paper around July 20 and traveled through Minneapolis Brooklyn Iowa Moravia and Kansas City. He sent mail to Moravia to forward to Galveston Texas and has not been heard from since. It suggests he fled ahead of yellow fever quarantine with hundreds of dollars and deposits. The item also promotes Electric Bitters with a testimonial from Mary Walters of Columbus Ohio and references Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Yealth as a domestic remedy.
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