Local notes and society items from Algona area
W L Joslyn returns home from Sycamore as news spreads. School children plan a 15 cent skating event next Saturday forenoon and afternoon. Mrs F Hedrick hosts a 12:30 lunch and an old fashioned carpet bee. Attorney Swetting travels to Wisconsin for a brother in law’s illness. G L Olmsted and wife visit Maquoketa kin, then return. Mrs Satchett believed dead, but latest word says she is healthier. The Buffalo Center Tribune notes the Algona Harp Orchestra’s fine music at a club dance. Lampright sports a swollen lower lip from an iron mishap, not a fight. Petitions circulated to commute Mrs Tolla’s death sentence. supporters say it’s just. Orville T Bright, Chicago school principal, sparked controversy with teachers over arithmetic and diacritical marking. Knights of Columbus hold a large meeting at the Armory with visiting delegations and 137 at banquet. Algona Harp Orchestra performs, and many dignitaries attend. Garrner Signal reports criticism of county auditing committee and notes concerns over committee members’ qualifications. Britt News cites local tax concerns and calls for careful selection of county officials.
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Buffalo Center Tribune
Algona Harp Orchestra
Niconsin
William Cleary
Miller
Gen. Stokes
N. Z
Tolla
McNutt
Garner
Garner Signal
Faust
Board of Supervisors
Warren McHenry
Des Moines
Mehenry
Riehm
Britt News
High grade cotton mattresses at Reaser's furniture
A notice invites customers to inspect high grade cotton felt mattresses A6 from 3 to 815 at Reaser's furniture store. B W Harmon plans to be in Algona to buy horses and mules and invites selling offers. Additional ads promote Taylor's Nutty Kiss, rental chairs and tables, oysters at Ladendorff's, Plymouth Rock hens via HB Higley office, and Florence Pagli dressmaker at W A Gillespie's.
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Reaser
Reaser’s
Program of Recital by Prof Benjamin Next Saturday Evening
The first lecture recital of series eight features Prof Benjamin presenting a program titled Musical Ideas. The event invites all pupils and their parents and includes works by Bach Chopin Beethoven Liszt Wagner and Wagner with pieces such as Prelude Fuge St Ann and Impromptu in sharp minor.
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Benjamin
St. Ann
Alfred Ernest
Weerep Pees
Chopin
Byer
Beethoven
Homeseekers and Settlers Ticket Sale Across States
The Town Cen dal Ly offers round trip tickets for January 2 and 14 February 8 and 20 to Nebraska Colorado Wass Missouri Arkmisus Dudhan Territory Olli hon Texas and Louisiana. Tickets are advertised as especially favorable with round trip prices at three fourths of regular fares and two day limbs. Sales run on the first and third Tuesdays to polling states.
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Nebraska
Colorado
Wass
Missouri
Arkmisus
Dudhan Territory
Olli Hon
Texas
Louisiana
Cendal Ly
Wy Rae
Polaiis
Man Injured by Needle Accident in Ayrshire Chronicle
James Geelan suffers a sore arm after a needle in the elbow penetrates flesh when he rests on a sofa. The needle breaks, may require X ray to locate fragments. Ayr shire Chronicle reports the incident.
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James Geelan
Iowa the Best Place for Health and Exercise
The Estherville Vindicator argues Iowa is the healthiest place on earth when residents exercise, sleep in cool ventilated rooms, eat three meals daily, and avoid excess clothing, lamenting deaths from health resort pursuits nationwide.
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Iowa
Estherville Vindicator
What They Did in Rockwell Murder Trial
The Hampton Chronicle notes the defendant’s attorney spoke eight hours to the jury, hinting the jurors might favor hanging the defendant after the extended indictment. L. H. Mayne returns from Chicago with his ailing wife, nearly a year after she sought treatment there. Local ads urge eye care, candy, furniture, loans, and a Friday buying event for horses and mules at Bert Peck's barn.
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Rockwell City
Hampton
Low rates to Colorado and return from Chicago
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway offers a special pass to Denver Colorado Springs or Pueblo with return to Chicago for the Annual Convention of the National Live Stock Association and National Wood Cro... Association at Denver from January 2 to February 8. Pickets go on sale January 27 28 and February 2 with return limited to February 1. The line promises lower rates and retimnings. For more information contact the Tinarest tel agent at Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway or write to Miller General Passenger Agent at Chicago.
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Colorado
Chicago
Mibwinkon & St. Paul
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
National Live Stock Association
Naclonal
Wood Crowerst Association
Toenver
Janury
Diuinary
Ahile Tinarest
Chicago, Mulwaukee & St. Paul
Thermia Linn
Miller
Avent
Chieng
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Sycamore
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BL. Swetting
Wisconsin
G. L. Olmsted
Maquoketa
I’. A. Whitham
Mr. Olmsted
the Record
Heath
Witham Farm
C. G. Satchett
Arleta
D. Patterson
Orville T. Bright
Chicago Ward
Central School
Tie
Knights of Columbus
Armory
Emmetsburg
Fort Dodge
Waterloo
Webster City
Jong
C. N. Taylor
Erin Go Braugh
Die Wacht Am Rhein
E. McMahon
Father Halpin
H. Donlan
W.J. Branigan
Daniels
Knight
Columbus
J. Z. Witzpatrick
Ft. Dodge
Thomas Sherman
Bancroft
Dy. Maguire
Wesley
E. E. Conner & CO
Alan Str
The
Algona Milling & Grain Co
J. W. Robinson
Moore Bros
Algona
B. W. Harmon
Aylor
Ripke
Sligley Co
Ladendorff’s
Plymouth Rock
Higley
Ladendorff's
Florence
W. A
Mayne
L. H. Mayne
Irresh Candy
Taylor's
A.D. Charnes & Co
E. A. Reaser
Reaser Furniture Store
Taylor
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Nobby
J. R. Laird
Cutts
Pow
Minneapolis
Minn
Follister
R.H. Miller
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Otto Neuman
M. V. Perry
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