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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1902
Page
7
Market notes from Algona edited by Moore Bros and Felthens list new barley and butter prices and brief price notes. Local itemizes market terms and suppliers with minimal readable details from the page segment.
Local Siftings lists residents and visitors in Algona with names such as Carl Wundt Bob Burdette Emma Heckart and Geo B Hall. It notes meetings Adventists happenings fertilizer sales land hunting Minnesota land fever and social events. The column also reports shop activity roads trips and small town commerce as residents travel to Chicago Des Moines and Portland.
J W Wadsworth trips to Chicago with sheep and Harvey joins his father. bands rehearse for a March 22 concert. Meetings on baseball, mill dam water breach, river dam work by Beedle, Gange & Converse farm implements, and real estate shifts. Church socials, charity events, school elections, and promises of new homes in Minnesota and North Dakota fill the week in Algona.
The column reports Mrs. Kelley breaking her arm after a kitchen fall, notes on Masonic instruction in Farley, and a Minnesota-Dakota emigration with 21 loaded cars. It also describes a comedy at the opera house, a 1902 wedding in Portland, lectures on North Dakota lands, a Des Moines wedding notice, the Baldwin wedding in Des Moines, and the Lyman Twins' entertaining stage mischief with Margaret Bushnell in a standout role.
For Rent a well improved eighty acre farm three miles from town. Enquire of F. W. Dyney. Stove wood for sale at Central depot. Ween Bros. & Felthons. Tit
To show our new stock of wall papers and it is worth seeing to early buyers. May we not have the pleasure of showing this wall paper to you.
Osean Johnson jailed on malicious mischief charge for damaging damson gates to release water. Information filed by C. Byson from hearsay. Bond set at $100 for appearance before Squire Taylor this afternoon. Also note a benefit concert tonight for the third ward school at Congregational church with local acts and readings to raise funds for room decoration. Also advertised at Algona Bowling Alleys selling cigars and soft drinks.
Advertising flyer in period tone offering latest wallpaper styles and borders direct from manufacturers. Promises sale prices at the same per roll as side paper and urges readers to see the seller before papering. W. Adama.
Mr G C B A Ying of Fair Play Missouri reports long standing chronic dysentery improved by Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says the medicine did more good than any other he has used and it is for sale by T H Mille.
Cash paid for old gold and silver assets linked to late My black Percheron stallion and black Spanish jack. G P Christensen touts the deal in a concise local notice.
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