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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
8
A humorous dialogue recalls Fourth of July customs and a noisy, family street scene. Characters joke about watermelon cooling, Chinese inventions, and the feverish buildup to celebrations. The story centers on a child who makes fireworks earlier than expected, drawing reactions from adults and neighbors.
A compact history of the U S flag from early designs in 1775 to 1818 detailing the evolution of stripes and stars, key dates like June 14 1777 and April 4 1818, and notes on early raises at Fort Schuyler and abroad including Washington and John Paul Jones in foreign lands.
A fragment from a speech recalls Patrick Henry urging forceful action, declaring the time for supplication has passed and the need to fight. He asserts an appeal to arms and liberty or death as the guiding course against government restraint.
Fragments reveal a tense exchange about a pistol or device not discharging. A character laments it will not go off while another offers a dime and questions why it failed to fire, followed by a disputed claim that someone already fired it.
Lake Shore System ends eighteen hour express service and reverts to slower trips. Officials say high speed did not cause the wreck, with noted running times and distances between Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, and New York.
The report details rapid miles logged east of Buffalo and between Cleveland and Buffalo plus Chicago to Elkhart and Syracuse to Albany. Distances include 183 miles in 165 minutes, 01.4 miles in 89 minutes, 150 miles in 150 minutes, 100 miles in 143 minutes, with several segments at 42 to 44 seconds per mile.
New York officials announced the Twentieth Century Limited on the New York Central and Lake Shore railroad would revert from an eighteen hour run to a twenty hour schedule at once. President Newman cited a switch mistake in a recent gad accident but insisted the train can safely maintain the longer timetable.
Venezuelan President Castro decrees a new custom house at Carenero, about seventy five miles east of Laguayra. The move, dated May 22, is expected to reduce hypothecated revenues of Laguayra and Porto Cabello, with similar impacts from Tucacas and Ocumare de la Costa forthcoming.
Milwaukee June 26 The head camp Modern Woodmen of America endorsed a plan for a fraternal congress to spotlight advantages of fraternal insurance over old line policies. By-laws were amended to admit metal miners and railroad men at special hazardous rates.
A Shanghai merchant, long tied to Oriental oil dealings, asserts the Standard Oil company will control Manchuria oil fields and insists this dominance could influence peace with Japan and Russia. He cites prior Russian support and shifts in oil and cotton trade before the war and suggests American buyers would gain under postwar conditions.
A bloody collision between soldiers and civilians in Lodz results in many deaths. In Warsaw a man carrying a bomb was arrested before Malenka police station after refusing to identify himself. Disturbances are expected amid worker unrest and rising tensions in the city.
King Alfonso approved a new cabinet on June 26 in Madrid. Premier Montero Rios leads the government with ministers including interior Senor Garcia Plestra foreign affairs Senor Sanchez Romilan finance Senor Araiz war General Wagler marine Senor Villanueva agriculture Senor Romanones justice Senor Gonzales Pena and public instruction Senor Mellarda.
In Tacoma area, June 26, a failed hold up of the North Coast Limited near the Northern Pacific line left robbers with no loot. A suspect fired at brakeman Harkins who protected the train. The bandit fled into an ambush after a failed attempt to back the engine to the fire.
Poughkeepsie June 23 Lilian Moore dies from skull fracture after two excursion trolley cars collided at Fishkill Landing. Twenty others were injured but not believed fatally.
San Francisco report notes E. T. Jeffrey of the Denver and Rio Grande has been elected president of the Western Pacific Railway company. He succeeds W. J. Barnett, who resigns as president and becomes vice president and general counsel.
St. Petersburg June 26 reports Admiral Alexieff’s retirement as viceroy of the far east signals imperial disfavor and alarms liberal presses. The cabinet’s moves, suppression of the far eastern committee, and Witte’s organ The Slave frame the war as a rupture with Tsarist policy. Japan’s stance on armistice remains cautious as battles slow and routes shift toward Sipinghal with no clear peace in sight.
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