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Rail timetable note listing Central Iowa trains with time data, page 11. Agent A Morgan is identified.
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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
4
Rail timetable note listing Central Iowa trains with time data, page 11. Agent A Morgan is identified.
Ward polling places listed Cordall Annex Armors Parish Residence Sheriff’s Office. Officers to be elected include four councilmen succeeding Cleary Hutchison Peterson Kenefick. Proclamation dated Algona Iowa March 9 1906 by Mayor W K Ferguson.
City council on February 24 1906 varied judges and clerks for the March 26 election and designated polling places by ward. First Ward polling at Durdall Annex with judges Wadsworth Cleary Byson and clerks Mason Roney. second ward Armory with judges Hutchinson Lewis Sampson and clerks Nolte McCoy. third ward Parish residence with judges Peterson Peterson Murtagh and clerks Crowell Kennedy. fourth ward Sheriff's Office with judges Chubb Kenetick Taylor and clerks Edmonds Galbraith. Dated March 5 1906 by City Clerk L J Dickinson.
Local notes report Sverflow KE visiting Des Moines and enjoying events, plus an upcoming stock auction by the combination sale company at the old J. R. frame feed barn. Mrs. R. P. Dorgan, now divorced, will operate the Durdall without her former husband nearby.
The item notes a skating contest for boys and girls under 16 with admittance of 25 cents and skates free. It then shifts to local news on Cave Lantry at State University, comments on term grades, and a family visit with a banquet in Algona. Orchestrates theatre previews for Miss Charlotte Burnett in The Honey Moon at Carl Opera House, plus a humorous note from Hagle Grove Gazette about a wife sewing buttons on her husband’s clothing.
The Elmore Eye publishes a full obituary of Joseph Mathers who died a week ago Monday. Born near Cincinnati in 1818 he moved with his family to New Castle at age three and later traveled the Ohio River to Cairo then up the Mississippi to Muscatine. He taught school, lived near Andrews in Jackson County, married Jane Glenn in 1845 at Maquoketa, and moved through Dubuque and Monticello before settling on a ridge farm near Irvington in 1870. He joined MBE church, supported temperance and women's rights, was a staunch Republican, and known for integrity and prudence. Only two of his five children survive, Charles J. and Mrs Blanchard of Delta, Colorado. The funeral was at Elmore with burial in Irvington.
A prize winner cow owned by M. I. Coonan yields steady income, earning 60 cents per day as a milk producer for most of the year. The record cited appears hard to beat.
Kendall of Phillipsburg Kansas endorses Bucklin’s Arnica Salve as the quick cure for burns boils and wounds. Ad highlights arnica salve benefits and lists common ailments. Mentions E Conners Co drug store and a price of 250. Includes a short poem about daily smiles and Rocky Mountain Tea by R H Miller.
S. A. Miskimins, manager, announces monthly in Agona sewing machine repairs and sales of Wheeler & Wilson or Singer machines. Contact via card if interested in a new or repaired unit. 24113 Spencer Ia.
Prize winning Duroc Jersey herd boar Dandy 36513 for sale plus spring boars and bred gifts including 22bt Joan WELLENDORY.
The passenger department of the Chicago Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railwayissued an illustrated leaflet on California’s Winter Summer Tours describing attractions and a three day trip aboard The Overland Limited from Chicago to San Francisco. It notes a daily departure from Union Passenger Station and a 2300 mile route over the new Salt Lake bridge with comfort and entertainment provisions for travelers.
The document names GC president B. J. Murrayt and Hutchins as vice president, with F. Vesper Casifer WH Dodds ELM Gilmore Gardner Cowles Andrew Peterson So Spent and S. E. McMahon among listed members and roles.
Miss Charlotte Burnett will interpret Juliana the leading female role in The Honey Moon at the Call Opera House on Tuesday March 13. She is celebrated for performances with Richard Mansfield in Beau Brummel Cyrano de Bergerac A Parisian Romance and with Julia Marlowe in The Cavalier and has had successful touring seasons.
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