Local notices and travels fill Algona week
Algona residents and visitors are listed in a long row of travel updates and family notes. Many moved between Des Moines Ames Mason City and Council Bluffs, with returns from Waverly Sioux City and Omaha.
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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
7
Algona residents and visitors are listed in a long row of travel updates and family notes. Many moved between Des Moines Ames Mason City and Council Bluffs, with returns from Waverly Sioux City and Omaha.
A married woman in this city waited up until 1260 o clock for her husband. When she found him asleep in his own room she refused to speak to him for a week. The tale illustrates temper and domestic discord in a small town.
A humorous exchange from the Houston Post features a patient asking a nurse to marry him upon recovery and the nurse deflecting with a witty line about keeping patients cheerful. She mentions her promise to run away with a married man who had lost both legs, illustrating a playful hospital scene.
Workmen digging for an addition to the Selig building in Lawrence Kansas uncovered packages of decayed papers and charred remnants of an old printing press. The finds lie at the historic site where the Herald of Freedom once operated and was razed in 1866 by order of a U S marshal. The ground had remained undisturbed for decades as citizens gathered pieces of the demolished press and burned paper.
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