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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1901
Page
7
Railway time cards list southbound departures with No 20 percent mall and 1200 pm freights except Sunday. Train No 21 mall No 205 way freight at Suna 30 pm. Through cars at Hampton for train No 208 with sleeping cars and free chairs for St Louis and Kansas City. Direct connection at Grinnell with At and P. A Klingler, Agent.
Numerous short notices from Algona items list social visits, sales and sales prospects, lectures, auctions, and local affairs. Mentions include Tra R. Adams of St Benedict, Prof Favour lecturing at the opera house, L. W. Joslyn's electric lighting, marriages, business moves, and upcoming sales at Seneca and Ledyard. Also notes on students, teachers, and community events with frequent names and places.
General Mack has been jailed since Monday for tar ceny in the northern part of the county. A fine moving picture entertainment at Odd Fellows hall Wednesday evening, under Rebekah lodge auspices, drew a good crowd. Tonight the opera house hosts Prof Favour's electrical exhibitions with demonstrations of apparatus and experiments. A quiet wedding occurred yesterday at Thor ington house with Rev F L Hanscom officiating joining Myrtle Rausch and Attorney J T Hogg. The newlyweds plan Knoxville Illinois for their home. Miss May Butler mourns her father’s election day death and funeral at Whittemore today.
Two duck hunters C L Montgomery and U S Baird, both Mason City residents, drowned after venturing onto Clear Lake Saturday. They were last seen during a six o clock squall and their bodies were recovered midlake on Tuesday as searchers scoured the lake from Clear Lake and Mason City. Both men were married with families.
In Minnesota North Dakota and Wisconsin large numbers of country merchants paid farmers high prices for potatoes at 1.24 per bushel hoping to unload to southern buyers at a profit. The surge failed and many merchants faced losses as markets soured.
The Detroit Free Press notes B F Craggs offers a 240 acre farm for rent. The piece references Acquisition of Knowledge and a dialogue about learning from a college experience, mentioning Clarice and a distant institute of learning and a remark about hairstyles.
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