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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
2
The Algona Advance note states the paper is mailed from Algona Iowa at a rate of 1.06 dollars per year with post office handling and a September 14, 190i filing.
A voice from the dead urges politicans to accept consequences of choices. Supporters of Allison face a unified Republican opposition in the state, while Cummins policy backers fought hard but could not prevail. The past should be buried until future issues arise.
Campaign reflections suggest a shift to open criticism of officials and a growing distrust of long tenures. Voters now challenge governors senators and presidents, valuing record over reverence. The era of campaigns embracing candor and accountability is emerging.
Fragmentary remarks question who attacked Bly Patterson and who Billy is, with quotes about unity and fate. The text mocks explaining past actions and cites Garfield while noting broad public indifference to supporting any governor candidate amid a regional political scene.
A historic primary week brings sharp lines and humor as Algona voters wrestle with complex ballots. Neighbors clash over ward committee choices while some cast single votes for coroner or for Holmes. Judges note confusion over party tickets and elector selections amid a campaign season long on expense and fatigue.
The Des Moines Daily News claims fearless, condensed coverage of state and national questions with market, farm, and household content. Readers are invited to send 40 cents for a three month trial subscription, with renewal optional and the offer repeating periodically.
President J. J. Leary of the Pittsburg Peace Society visited Germany seeking to persuade toy makers to remove warlike figures. He said Germans doubt abolition of war and warned that true peace comes when soldiers think for themselves, recounting a western private who questioned fighting.
Owen MacDonald notes in Technical World Magazine that China shifted from viewing soldiers as lowly coolies to embracing a modern army. Telecommunication, aviation, and khaki uniforms replaced old tools, with bayonets replacing two handed swords. Japan’s 1894-98 war exposed weaknesses and strengths, ending China’s era of relying on sheer numbers.
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi relates a humorous negro matrimony tale. A darkey preacher marries a couple and sets a fee for service. The groom negotiates, pays in installments, and eventually claims the arrangement is a stingy misdeal.
The Kansas City Times describes Ninth street between Bell street and the state line as the wettest block, housing two pool halls, a grocery, a dry goods store, a furnishing goods shop, and twenty three saloons. Three more saloons lie across Bell street in the next block, with narrow two story buildings some offering lodging upstairs.
A London Globe note describes Rostolan barracks near Aix in Provence where deserter Traveree from 1898, with wife and five children, surrenders hoping for amnesty. Though too young for the law, he is kept in comfortable quarters with family, officers providing schooling and luxuries until the father turns thirty.
Tickets at 11.80 for Chicago and return valid June 12 17 with return by June 30. Inquiries at the ticket office for details. Also items: seven room house for sale on Elm Street with three lots water works cistern barn and apple trees. White Plymouth Rock eggs for sale inquire Mrs. James Pedley phone line O. RK. R. Algona.
Advertises on hand goods including lumber posts screen-doors windows lime stucco cement paints and the best coals for summer use. Also lists rental of north half of section 26 Whittemore township including 60 acres timothy grass land and contact L F Mruizr phone 15 Algona. Also notes low round trip rates to Pacific Coast via Chicago Union Pacific and North Western Line with daily departures June 1 to September and ask agents for full particulars.
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