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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1902
Page
8
This farming bulletin reviews tree planting by Mr Stringfellow advocating a shallow hole and minimal root disturbance, tests on egg fertility with homemade testers, methods to ornament unsightly trunks with ivy and vines, proper manure management, cautious pullet rearing, Angora goats for brush control, fall fruit packaging in boxes, and building an inexpensive poultry house for winter warmth and dryness.
London readers reported a dramatic claim by J H Pigott of Clapton to be Christ. The Agapemanites, a small sect led by Pigott, deny interviews and articles while asserting their faith. The group, aged about 80, includes Pigott and his wife, with Pigott once linked to the Salvation Army and Cam bridge education.
A Chicago Record Herald piece recalls George W. Hopper a self-made millionaire of Geneva Ohio. The tramp who advised him to seal barrels with water to stop oil leakage sparked Hopper’s fortune, later valued between two and three point six million dollars. Hopper kept a generous policy toward tramps, offering meals at his home even today. His son Charles Hopper, famed in the 1920s for Chimney Fadden, lives in the family residence.
A fragmented Texas courtroom tale claims a judge refused to hear a horse theft case citing personal prejudice. The thief was to be tried by a rival official, with the court adjourning to arrange an outside process as dictated by murky, disputed facts.
In a dramatic New York incident Mary, known as Italian Mary, stalked a Corsican rival to a bridge where a man and woman planned to cross. She fatally wounds the woman with a stiletto, then collapses after a pistol shot from a patrolman, dying as she turns the weapon upon herself. The case spawns debate on justice and love, with old proverbs cited by crowds and officers recalling Mary’s two decades at the fruit stand.
Chicago Tribune notes Judge Sidener of St. Louis ruling on a provocative moment as he asserts a woman may kiss a man at any time, arguing a privilege of the opposite sex. Mamie Mitchell is described as a blonde who kissed Alberts, who then struck her. Sidener fines Alberts twenty.
Nina Farbell, a Chicago teacher with no home or money for travel, forms a bond with medical student George Bacon at a boarding house. They choose to leave the city for the country, where Nina becomes his bride and both seek a quieter life away from the urban clamor.
The San Francisco Chronicle argues Americans should learn from Europe yet preserve national genius. It laments over imitation of foreign ways while praising European roads administration and public safety as models for better U.S. city governance and urban life.
A Maine visitor recalls a humorous misadventure in a prohibition state seeking limes for gin rickeys. He arrives in a small Rangely-area town and asks if the store sells gay times, only to be offered chloride of ammonia instead. The anecdote ends with a grim quip about the mercury rising and a sobering note on temperance realities.
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