Old Algona Landmark House Moves Again
A black walnut built house once moved from Irvington in the winter of 1861 now sits on Hutchison Gilmore road southwest of town. The structure has a storied past, passing from Barber to Lewis H. Smith, Rev. Taylor, Mrs. Horton, and George Simpkins, each relocation remembered by Ambrose A. Call who witnessed the latest transformation.
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Hutchison & Gilmore
Judge Quarton
Barber
Riley Mason
Irvington
Ambrose A. Call
Ancient buffalo trails shaped America’s roads and routes
Centuries before European explorers, vast bison herds created trails that became early highways. Indians followed these routes for hunting and war, then Anglo-Saxon hunters and settlers widened them into the paths that carried emigrants through the mountains toward the promise of new lands.
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Raleigh
Smith
New World
America
Bering Strait
Appalachians
American Press
Ornamental Hat Rack From Barbecue Ax Ribs
The Emmersburg Demuorgt notes Ornamental and Useful craft by T L Crose using two ribs from a barbecue ax, enameled and attached to a cherry board from Mrs Crose’s grandparents dining table sixty years old. The piece serves as a hat rack and is tied to records of a Semi-Centennial celebration to be discussed later.
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T.L. Crose
Mrs. Crose
Emmersburg
Bargain sale at Algona Tea & China Store ends January 5
Readers are invited to a holiday sale offering Ghinawate Chamber Sets Dinnerware Toys Dolls and Nations at COST. Prices will beat auction rates with ample clerks on hand. Also reported is the Lilloclet Gold Dredging company crisis as Wm Sche leck er vanished on the Frazer river leaving the dredge attached for 10000 debt, stockholders discouraged, and doubt about funds to cover claims.
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Algon
Arieplus
Tle
Algona Tea & China Store
Lilloclet
Wm. Schelecker
Frazer River
Iowa Falls
Most Men Would A Dress in the Street Clash
A Hampton Chronicle item recounts a couple from Clarian leaving their home. The husband, dressed to kill, laughs at his wife pulling on refractory gloves. He quips about stockings in public as they hurry to catch a train. The exchange ends with tense silence.
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Clarian
Hampton Chronicle
General parking business offers drafts and money orders worldwide
The firm advertises as a general parking business handling drafts and money orders payable globally. It pays four percent interest on savings, compounded semi annually, and provides free use of fireproof vaults. It invites small accounts with the same careful attention as larger ones. Officers listed include J Murtagh president and Hutchins vice president.
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Bama
Inventor of barbed wire dies in Illinois at ninety
A Hampton correspondent notes the death of the man who invented barbed wire in Illinois. He supposedly built a fortune from royal ties connected to the creation, and his life spanned over ninety years. The item mocks the device, asking for statistics on its casualties and damage, while predicting few mourners for the inventor or his fiancée.
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Ilinois
Hampton Chronicle
New Milking Machine Demonstration At State Fair
A practical demonstration of a milk ing machine drew large crowds of dairymen at the Illinois state fair. The device milks two cows at a time with compressed air, and a dairy of 100 cows was said to be using the machines successfully. Meadow Brook Farm noted that only time will prove if operation harms the cows.
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Meadow Brook Farm
Manure Loader Factory Opens in Himore Minnesota
A new manufacturing establishment for manure loaders has started at Himore Minn and is planned to be one of the largest in southern Minnesota. With these machines a manure spreader can be loaded in three minutes from a shed or yard. The firm already has 400 orders, Titonka Caupic.
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Himore
Minn
Minnesota
Titonka Caupic
Fox chases jack rabbit end in Fox's retreat at Clausen meadow
The Bancroft Register reports a near crossing event where a red fox pursued a jack rabbit. The rabbit maintained speed across the smooth footing of Clausen meadow and left the fox far behind, ending the chase as the fox trotted back.
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del Barslow
Clausen
Sir Reynard
Bancroft Register
Weighing a Newborn Weighs Forty-Three Pounds
A rural tale from a August birth in Titonka where a young couple sought scales for their first child. An eyewitness borrowed a man’s scale at a pivotal moment and discovered the baby weighed forty three pounds, a surprising early postnatal record for the town.
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Titonka Pople
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Anderson's Restaurant
L. P. Anderson
The
Algona Music House
Baldwin, Story & Clark
Hamden
Ellington
Hamilton
Valley Gem
John Mesing
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago, Milwauke & ST. Paul Railway
A. Miller
Ghicago
Opera House
Deli
Tse
Algona
Iowa
Henry Lowe
81St General Assembly
Dutton & Sorensen
Patterson & Son
James Patterson
John Goeders
Langdon & Ca
Geo. W. Paine
Sfangy
Algona Milling and Grain Co
County Savings Bank
Irgan
Algona, Iowa
Oppicers
ER. J. Murtagh
C. B. Hutchins
I. BH. Vesper
Cashier
Wm. Dodds
B. J. Gilmore
Gardner Cowles
Andrew Peterson
J. Spear
H. McMahon
Woodford, Wheeler Lumber Co
Web
Tribon
Newhorington
Fellows
Salt Street
Gay
Ehler & Pee Echt
C. A. Oretzmeyer
John Galbraith
Islode
Algona State Bank
Lowa
M. J. Kenefick
Naylor
Walter Fraser
G. L. Galbraith Store
Bertrand
Ostlopath
Atte
Ato
Heise
Glasier
D. D
A. L. Rist
Clarke P. T. Vaughan
Clarke & Vaughan Attorneys AT Law
Frederick M. Curtiss
Kossuth County State Bank
E. V. Swetting
PB. Harrington Ltd
Dickinson Harrington & Dickinson
Attorneys AT Law
Office Over County Savings Bank
T. W. Sullivan
BE. McMabor Sullivan & McMahon
Spencer W. Crowell
Attorney AT Law
Chas, T. Cotant
M. Galbraith
Jobn GaLbraith Block
Algona State Bank, Algona, Iuwa
Offijcers Ayd
D. Clarke
Pres
O. G. Chubb
Thos
B. Lantry
Ogshier
Myron Schenck
J. W. Hinchon
Fred Miller, Geo. J. Gathralth
Dr. Kings
Peter
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