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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
7
The Markets Corrected Weekly notes price updates for oats wheat barley flax hogs butter and eggs. The report lists oats at 20 to 23 cents, wheat around 40 cents, barley weak, flax near 1.04 dollars, hogs about 5.30 dollars, butter down 20 cents and eggs at about 30 dollars per hundred.
Sheriff McDonald visited Fairmont Minnesota while social notes list visits by Mrs J J Warrick Bancroft and Mrs C A Cohen the Beggar Prince company singing at the opera house and a party at McCoy bowling alley. Also noted are license grants to Davids Fischer Behnkendorf Linsenmayer and others, plus speakers Miss Maud Barlington Booth and Mrs Booth praised as a foremost orator. meeting dates and local civic notes throughout Algona.
J J Jones hosted his nephew Arthur McGee of Yorkton while visiting old friends in Algona. Services at the Baptist church feature Bible school at 10 and sermons on fishing and judgment day. Mrs GC Simpson heads to Monterey Mexico with Miss Nicoulin. Professions and local moves are noted, including Geo E Pingree’s promotion and various town updates. Dr Ira M Welch dies. tributes mark a pioneer in law and politics. News of neighbors includes local anecdotes, trials, and civic happenings across nearby towns.
Dynamite and nitro glycerine were found on the front steps of a building after a bank window washing incident. Dr. Peck slipped on an icy cornice ledge at the First National Bank, plunged twenty feet to the pavement, and survived with fifteen stitches to the head, plus a broken wrist and fractured arm. Meanwhile T and Wand of Kossuth Telephone Co indicated armstrong line upgrades, promising two weeks to establish service into Armstrong, Swea City, Estherville, Emmetsburg and beyond.
Morse of the North Iowa Lumber Co denies any plan to consolidate with Ricker Bratnaber Co of Waterloo or B L Willis Lumber Co of Webster City. The Iowa company, incorporated last July, says it will retain its name and individuality.
Notice is given that Wa. H. Inawam has been appointed administrator of the Thomus Flogan estate in Kossuth County Iowa deceased. Creditors must promptly pay and filing claims with the district court clerk in Kossuth County Iowa as required by law. Dated January 28, 1908.
A summary of property exchanges includes E G Seymour transferring to the Methodist church Germania, and transfers involving State Bank of Germania, C Sparks, J Yager, Alex Carpenter, Della M Smith, and church trustees. The notices list lots, outlots, blocks, sections, and subdivision details, with several monetary figures for the transactions and a Miss Flint dancing school note at 7:30 pm next Tuesday.
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