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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1903
Page
2
At the Algona post office the notice lists subscription rates including one year six months and three months. The item notes second class mail matter entry on September 14, 101.
A reflective town column traces a wave of departure from Kossuth County as prominent residents like Stizy and others seek broader opportunities in Des Moines and beyond. It laments lost homesteads, rising land profits, and the unsettled mood affecting farms, labor, and community ties while praising the enduring role of the cow in local life and noting recent political and local happenings including General Drake’s death and university alumni remembrance.
The piece discusses eloquent tributes to animals and cites Col N M Woods at Springfield IL praising the cow. It argues the cow’s value to commerce and daily life, claiming half the freight and labor would vanish without cattle and imagining removing dairy products from tables.
The audience cheered as Jenny Lind sang and John Webster, hat in hand, bowed to her. Lind reddened with modesty as Webster performed a courteous bow, and the gesture was repeated nine times amid warm applause from the crowd.
The Dallas County News editor extols oratory as a God given gift born in a man. He argues practice cannot replace soul and asserts most people are moved by the orator’s magnetic fire rather than mere skill. The piece lauds the spoken word above writing and claims no power can withstand eloquence.
A Chicago woman silent for ten years regained speech after hearing a football crowd. Her recovery followed the hospital watch and cheering. Moral: avoid wives attending games. Spurbeck Lambert Co. advertises 2 inch select white pine cisterns, tarred outside and painted inside, resistant to freezing and long lasting.
Stock notes advertise coal and cordwood sales by H C Adams and Bowyers glasses. The Chicago Tea and Coffee House is listed along with cash paid for fresh eggs. The item presents as a compact early 20th century classified notice with multiple business lines and prices.
The Advance offers a one dollar annual subscription, fifty cents cheaper than other papers in the county. To boost circulation without canvassing agents, new subscribers may receive The Advance with selected weeklies for set cash prices. Pairings include The Advance with Iowa State Register, Des Moines Capital, Sioux City Tribune, St. Paul Dispatch for price of The Advance. also The Advance with Des Moines Daily News for 2.25 or with Sioux City Daily Tribune for 2.75. Delinquent subscribers may join by paying all arrears.
In Washington the Capital City a book recounts a dinner guest list of cabinet and senate members hosted by the Russian minister. Daniel Webster and Jenny Lind joined the second half of a concert, opening with Hail Columbia. Webster rose to join the chorus and his wife tried to quiet him as the verses ended.
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