24 Oct 1902
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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1902
Page
1
A Walker Washington Star excerpt features Mr Stormington Barnes quipping about walking for golf and other games. The piece then pivots to a humorous plug for Mrs Austin’s Paneyke flours, promising ready mix and urging readers to ask their grocer for a tin.
A miscellany of nostalgic claims about bygone eras from American public libraries to stagecoaches between New York and Boston. The piece riffs on old practices, fashion, and social norms, then mentions a Free Rheumatism Cure offer and a tongue in cheek New York Times quotation.
Merton and Acton duel Hazeltine and are interrupted by a royal arrest warrant. Prince Henry, Dr Low, Major Sproat, and Atherton organize a tense stand, while Washington’s trust anchors a stubborn duel that tests honor, loyalty, and danger in late colonial New York.
Belle Bilton as Countess Clancarty rises from a gypsy life to London stage stardom. Her marriage to Lord Dunto ended in divorce attempts. the Earl died in 1891. Now on Irish estates she works quietly to redeem a troubled past while the public admires her courage.
A father named Mr. Goldbags chides his son with the line When I was your age I earned my own living. The son remains silent as the father presses for a reply and concludes by saying he sympathizes and congratulates him that it is all over.
The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics reports that many families earn under 4000 yearly and spend 77 monthly for a representative household. Food costs rose 11.6 percent since 1897, with clothing up 16.07 percent and fuel up 9.7 percent, while wages did not rise in proportion. The piece urges labor value and curbing monopolies to prevent price increases beyond world levels.
Pearson's Magazine recounts how Thomas Nast's cartoon of Tweed led a Spanish police officer to arrest the exiled boss, aiding the downfall of the Tweed ring. It notes Nast's enduring influence as he passes the torch to younger reformers and recalls his praise for Roosevelt when the future president was police commissioner.
A fragmented column mixes slang and social jabs with mock telegrams about family arrivals, a zoological zoo joke, and a political swipe. It cites a British House of Lords count of 590 members, including twenty-two dukes, amid cheeky asides on gentry and reformers.
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