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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1903
Page
7
Market items show corn at .24 25e oats at .253 20c wheat at (as0e) barley .26 90c flax. hogs at 6.60. butter and eggs quoted around 12 cents per unit. Notable price symbols suggest a condensed historical price list in the weekly market section.
Local Siftings reports on visits by G. W. Pangburn family and many neighbors in Algona area. mentions Miss Elsie Barnes, Della Darling, J. J. Cosgrove, Wick Sheridan, Charley Plumley, Miss Nelle Glarke, Rev. Stevens, Mrs. Hattie Reed, and others visiting, hosting, or traveling to nearby towns. notes church events, dances, lodge activities, and local gossip.
A scrambled social column notes residents and visitors in Irvington and nearby towns. Mentions include Mrs Burt Bedell’s mother visiting over Sunday, Arthur Blythe and wife at his father’s, Miss Olive Trumble’s school in Riverdale, and Will Brooks with his mother’s visit. A steam shovel returns Monday, Laverne filings, and Grant Sample erecting a monument for his brother Charley.
Old creamery managers and buttermakers prefer Alpha DeLaval separators for best efficiency and long life. Jivery creamery in Kossuth county uses DeLaval. For prices and catalogue, Spurbeck Lambert Co Algona. The Durdall lunch room reopens with 20¢ dinners. For sale eight good milk cows near Keven Tenor.
From the Webster City Journal May 21 1803 report Dr W K Seeley of Dubuque visits Algona every 28 days with no operation needed. Eight weeks ago J O Olsen of Radcliffe Iowa brought his ten year old daughter Mabel who became cross-eyed and suffered headaches at school. After Seelye's treatment her eyes are straight and headaches gone with no operation. Olsen is a local farmer five miles southwest of Radcliffe. Outro note promotes Seeley Oaks Dubuque practice.
The Milwaukee Road offers excursion tickets to Spirit Lake Arnold's Park Okoboji and to Clear Lake with return at one and one third fare until September 30th. This discount appears in a local advertisement promoting travel to popular inland destinations during the summer season.
The Iowa Central Ry announces summer excursion rates from Algona June 1 to September 30 1903. Destinations include Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo $23.90 return, Glenwood Springs $35.90, Salt Lake City Ogden $36.35, with lower trips to Deadwood Lead City Hot Springs and Custer. Diverse routes and stopovers offered. For folders and rates contact any Town Central ticket agent or A B Cutts GP TA Minneapolis MN.
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