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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
4
Notice invites bids from doctors and suppliers in Woodworth County for medical and surgical supplies. Bids must be submitted by district and county, with separate submissions required for each district noted. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to select the best tender for the required stock.
Notice from the county supervisor board calling for bids on road work in multiple districts. Bids must state price per hundred feet of stance, with a cash deposit of 4 dollars, and bond terms to be fixed by the board. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and the notice is signed by M. Powraver, County Auditor, Springfield.
Time card excerpt listing Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul, Chicago North Western and other lines. Details include westbound departures for passenger, mixed, and freight trains, with station agents and schedules, and notes on connections and exceptions on Sundays and holidays.
Corrected every Thursday by Moore Bros. and Feltlions. New oats and other grains are listed with adjusted prices. Wheel parloy figures appear in the columns for local market trades.
Count shows Nemmain Necker suffers inflammatory rheumatism while many residents bustle with sales auctions and moves. Jno Wornersen shells thousand bushels. Henry Depper pounds a lint coop near the old store. Local changes include Witte taking over a Bancroft creamery job, Buckartz trading stock for Minnesota land, and ice packing plans for winter. Several arrests and relocations mark a busy period with sales at Bancroft stockyards and talk of Iowa moves.
Preliminary reports place a case before Justice B Clarke with a grand jury bound over. Locals discuss hoped acquittal for Jordan, various quilting parties and oyster suppers, weddings and visitors including Mrs Putsch, Mrs Rev Suckow, Oscar Dutton and Mrs Daub. Community life spans dances, a cow loss from disease, a Bowen Westerberg marriage, and numerous visits, travels, and society meetings in Sexton and surrounding towns.
A 19th century discussion cites Sir Robert Ball on Martian visibility of Earth’s vast petroleum fires. Even a lake sized blaze on Earth would appear as a tiny point to Mars observers using top telescopes. The piece argues signaling Mars is beyond human capability given planetary distances and detection limits.
A Maine clipping describes strange cat lore with a Portland woman whose striped tabby craves water heated to the hottest level and drinks from the vat. Biddeford raises a two legged cat Tom born with deformities. Bar Harbor cat fanciers claim profit in clever corn cats while urging caution about rearing coon cats. seal brown and pure white cats are valued, and raising many mature specimens promises profit but disease and fragility persist in younger coon cats.
A World's Work inspired plan lets ordinary people own refitted private railway cars. New York refitting firms buy old Pullman coaches and customize parlors dining rooms sleeping compartments and more. Prices range from 100 to 15000, showing American manufacturing thrift and growing wealth.
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