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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
4
A fragmented report shows railway time cards and a partial note involving South Pasneainst and a mixed result. Mentions Chicago & North Western Railway and Macintiss in a brief score or timing context.
Corrrected market listing notes Maeve Bros and Fellows in Algona. Corral of corn flax barley and oats appears with misspelled items and odd spellings. Market items include Butte Gees and To gs with sparse details and unclear quantities.
John Tingtinger visits from Whittemore. Miss Kate Preble of Trumboldt guests Gladys McClelan. A bankruptcy petition is filed by Childs who failed in business here. Shredded biscuit banquet at the Congregational church draws about 29 attendees. Mr and Mrs Clark Peck dine with Te W. Sigsby near Burt. Frank Dingley speaks of fod. O Zents buys Union quarter six on favorable terms. Miss Jennie Pettibone in Des Moines with CUP. Morehouse of Bancroft back in town. Mrs BB Barbarka receives a New Year’s present from her husband’s father. C G Strandberg leaves for Ratherville to work with Spurbeck-Lianbert Co. David Meyers and wife from North Dakota visit then go to Grundy Center for winter. Since Guy Dalton and wife’s return from Spencer, Iowa, he enjoys society of Algona friends. Miss Mace Youmans visiting parents before return to Buffalo Center ill for several days. Dr Coxsee absent at Rolfe abstracting victuals provided by relatives. Guy Norton of Sehlers & Specht’s drug store goes to Hampton for New Year dinner. A young woman loses a black pocketbook on the street. reward offered at the office. Mrs Bert Peck visits Lampton for a month. Bert laments bachelor life not as charming as imagined. Harrington & Dickinson sue Northwestern for 2000 damages in favor of Mrs Mary Thomas hurt near La Verne. At Christmas meeting of James C Taylor Post, officers elected: Commander S Spear, V Cmdr C C Chubb, Jr V G M Parsons, Chap Elias Clark, Surg D D Dodge, C G Thos Dailey.
Attorney I A Harrington attended his brother’s wedding in Dows to observe ceremonies. D D Dodge named surgeon of James Taylor post, offering half price professional calls during term. Various social visits, school music notes, store promotions for shredded whale wheat biscuit, and local civic gatherings пер featuring officers elected for Fire company and the Algona businessmen banquet with plans for a grand Carnival. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertised.
A Kanawha Record note warns farmers about a gate scheme promising high egg prices but paying with twenty cent stamps. A farmer loses money while others jeer at the scam. The Rockford Register mocks a town girl who paints her cheeks white with rouge, likening her appearance to a white paper with a red rose.
The project by G. B. Hartley and Clarence Moore to open two coal mines at East Chain was abandoned. Veins existed but excessive light soil above prevented a viable roof, making extraction impractical. Veins measured from 18 inches to a foot in thickness with soft coal quality. Granada Journal.
From parties returning from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana we hear that land seekers outpace those in the Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin region. A widespread desire to acquire land appears, countering prophecies that cities would swallow populations. Current farm land investments do not fulfill that forecast.
The Messenger notes Mayor Bennett or fore Dodge was named to form a committee selecting eight of Webster county’s most beautiful women for a world’s portfolio but declines the task. The Clare Tribune adds humor about Fort Dodge and Clare. Morg Jenkins recalls a 1863 Algona to Estherville horseback trip with CW Jarvis, describing cold weather and scant cotton clothing as Indians were feared.
A Des Moines federal court heard a case against two men from Albia for tampering with a rural delivery mailbox. A post office inspector led the investigation. Judge McPherson fined them $150 plus costs for the offense.
Local notes recount births in Dexar kana with five new children. four girls and one boy. Amboy Herald reports a corn leak in a freight car causing a spill along the track and switched sidings. Quips from various papers include a bartender concession remark and a club paper joke. A Jamaica merchant praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for cough and chest pains. County Savings Bank advertises loan borrowing.
The British Museum has received a specimen of the whale headed stork, a rarely seen bird first found on the White Nile in 1849. The latest specimen was shot on the north shore of Lake Victoria and described as gaunt with a curling tuft, scowling eyes, and an enormous whale shaped bill.
Home seekers excursion tickets at greatly reduced rates will be sold on the first and third Tuesdays of each month through the year 1001 to the territory indicated. Standard and tourist cars, free reclining chair cars, and the best of envoy full particulars apply to agents Chicago and North Western Railway.
Winnie Virginia resident Mig N A Webster reports rapid relief from chronic sick headaches after using Dr King’s New Life Pills. She says the remedy cured years of headaches along with constipation and biliousness. Available for 26 cents at local Ligith’s drug store.
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