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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
4
L T Cooper warns against excess medicine use and promotes regular life habits. He touts Cooper's New Discovery as a spring and fall tonic, advising trial for run-down health. A Cincinnati testimonial from Sallie Middleton details restored appetite, sleep, and strength after using the product.
Local notice invites inquiries about a selection of medicines offered by W. A. Parsers & Co. The ad emphasizes product availability and urges customers to ask about the medicines.
An old time lumber yard ad promotes a wide range of goods from lumber to coal. It highlights screen doors and windows of all sizes and styles at low prices, mentions Washed Nut coal for summer and Silver Creek Splint soft coal, and invites customers to visit Woundlord Wheeler Lumber for any item in its line.
Incomplete OCR snippet shows times 8 10am and 3 50 pm with unclear destination or route. Includes text Atl 55 am 03130 p to, lacking full details for a proper summary.
Technical World reports a new light developed by Herschell Parker and Walter G. Clark at Columbia University that replaces incandescent lamps. The Helion lamp allegedly emits a diffuse sunlike spectrum without the yellow tint of ordinary bulbs, marking a shift from mercury vapor and other current sources.
Relics of Old Newgate feature surviving fragments from the historic prison in London including a beam groove from gallows and a press yard door. Other relics have sold at auction and exhibitions, with items like the condensed cell fittings and the old bell fetching notable sums. Edison’s watch tale notes he prefers a cheap stem-winder, oiling and pocketing it, then breaking and replacing when clogged or stubborn.
A real estate buyer plans a twelve story apartment building on a corner just south of the Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue New York. The Vanderbilts have long spent between 4 and 5 million dollars to shield that stretch from what they deemed undesirable improvements.
Elsie, Tonkawa oldest living resident in Oklahoma, visits a hardware store where a salesman touts a washing machine as turning Blue Monday into pleasure. She rejects the sales pitch noting that Paleface wash constantly while Indians never wash, a quip reflecting a humorous clash of cultures reported by the Tonkawa News.
London notes describe Queen Alexandra's bedroom with pale rose silk paneling and white satin hangings. The bed area bears an imperial crown, while ivory silk curtains with heliotrope trim frame the boudoir. Ivory silk paneling in gilt moldings, Beauvois tapestry, and Louis XVI furniture complete the room. The bathroom is newly built, featuring a Grecian marble bath sourced from ancient quarries.
Market ledger list shows livestock and produce with animals such as hogs ducks and chickens priced per hundredweight and per unit. Potatoes and hay appear with stated prices. overall the fragment reflects a mid market snapshot from Algona with cattle poultry and produce entries and irregular OCR artifacts.
Local overflow Lillian Stock travels to Fonda to visit friends while Webb Vincent, Fort Dodge stucco man, tours town. Numerous items note sales at Dutrdall's, church services, visitors from Sioux City and Germania, a sick auto in Renwick, upcoming weddings, a Rebekah dinner, a Gridley death, and a stormy board of supervisors session on drain No. 11.
The board referred the drain alterations back to the engineer and the contract for constructing Ienton drain No 16 was let to Waldemar Jensen for 5420.15 dollars. It includes 2220 feet of open ditch and 13825 feet of tiling.
National Association Convention coverage notes the Town Central Ry selling round trip tickets to San Francisco and Los Angeles from June 22 to July 6 1907 with stopovers. Return via any direct route and go via any direct route. Contact agents or A B Cubis GP T A Minneapolis Minn for details.
For the summer season the Town Central Ry offers lower excursion rates to East Coast and Western destinations. Tickets go on sale June 1 and run through October 31, 1907 with liberal stopovers and flexible routes. Contact A. B. Cutts, GP & 2 A., Minneapolis, Minn, for details.
A New Jersey powder works chief claims no accidents in five years lure workers away. He notes explosives workers are superstitious about accidents, since statistics show a roughly seven year cycle. Despite high pay and no life insurance, staff fear an impending incident and may quit. Brooklyn Eagle report.
In Phil mount park streams goldfish thrive in pools at dam bottoms and riffles. They are descended from pets released by nearby residents and despite being carp, they show voracious instincts yet appear content and healthy in the wild.
The East and West contend for the decennial location of the center of population. For 112 years the line along the thirty-ninth parallel has favored the West. If current trends hold, the center may move toward near Columbus Indiana then toward the Mississippi River, lingering near St. Louis for a decade, a shift likened to a civil war in force.
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