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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1906
Page
2
The notice appears to announce a post office listing in Algona with a dated stamp and editor attribution. It mentions a faded and garbled line referencing a second-class mail designation and a September date, implying an archival marking or delivery instruction.
A collection of notices from Algona Iowa and surrounding areas shows candidates declaring for Sheriff County Treasurer County Recorder Clerk of Court Auditor and other posts subject to the Republican county convention. Delegates will meet June 15 1906 at the Court House in Algona to nominate a County Supervisor for the 2nd District.
In the First Ward at High School and Second Ward at the Armory, voters will select delegates to the supervisor convention. The notices mention precinct sites and election timing with scattered garbled names and roles for local officials and sheriffs offices.
The notice lists dates and locations for delegate selections to the supervisor convention. Charley Worster, Java town, Cresco and Plum Creek centers host events with chairs and committees named. Decoration Day history and Gen. Logan’s service are recounted in a long side column.
In the Algona news, Mrs. Ames won a court ruling against her daughter Mabel Chirag who sued for an accounting and $15,000 claiming 400 acres. Judge Juarton dismissed the similar Emmetsburg case, finding the daughter had received her share from her father’s estate. The affair involved Mabel’s engagement to Chirag, a Russian Jew, and social expectations in Boston society.
The supreme court delivers a sweeping ruling forcing saloon patrons to quit by ten in the evening and not return until five in the morning, a move hailed by some and decried by others as a shift in social norms. Local notices also advertise grinding at a college building, grain sales, and curiously mention a Sears Roebuck cream separator related injury incidents near Mt. Lake. The Windom Citizen reports several such similar machine explosions in the region and warns about faulty construction. Early business openings are advertised, inviting applicants and opportunities in Watertown and surrounding areas.
Joe McClellan of Spirit Lake area argues pickerel grow about two pounds yearly. He notes a nearby pond, previously pickerel free, now teeming with fish weighing one to two and a half pounds. Jackson Public. WANTED A good dining room girl at the Thorington 441.
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