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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1905
Page
2
The clipping lists HY Reed and Glarke with F Reed as editor, marked as entered at Algona post office as second class matter on Sept 16 1001, offering subscription options including one year six months and three months at a dollar and cents.
Special from Shenandoah notes Mrs Billa Waugh opening the fall term at Fairview School House. She has taught there for seventeen years and a half, never missing a term, entering the last half of the term. Directors and patrons praise her steady satisfaction and contrast past attempts to replace her. The piece comments on community prejudice and support for a single dedicated teacher.
Colfax Tribune notes opinions on arranged matches and marriage fitness. Anecdotes describe varied unions from drunken widowers to old maid partners, a one-armed man with a grandmother, and reform through remarriage. The piece questions initial advice versus eventual outcomes in marriages.
A Lenox young woman receives a verdict of one dollar in a breach of promise suit, prompting remarks on attorney fees. The piece notes Chicago teacher salaries with the superintendent at 10,000, high school principals averaging 92,960, and grade teachers 1,826, contrasting New York City and Boston figures. It references Rockefeller predicting hard times about 1908, a man in Warren County ND hanging himself after a 30 year-old murder, and a Texas incident where an accused black man was burned at the stake. The author condemns North Texas cruelties and expresses relief to live in the North.
Billy Sealock rode Burlington Route to victory in the half mile repeat race at the fair with easy style. A judge praised the horse as a noble specimen, prompting admiration from onlookers. Advertisements promote Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a health tonic.
Tax sale notice lists a described parcel in Gore Mora incorporation Wossand county Loch Beglonny with southeast corner at Black 6 Ghanee west 150 feet Lienee 85 feet 450 feet. Treasurer of the county to WC Dinson as legal holder of private purchase. Redemption expires after the sale, and a deed will be issued if unpaid. Dated September ALT 190%.
To Agius Morrison you are notified that on the last day in December 12 1905 the described parcel in Iowa near Algona was sold by trustees to Woodson Davidson, holder of the title and purchase money, with redemption available for ninety days from service of notice, as treasurer of the county.
The notice states that a property in the county tied to Wesley incorporation was sold to WoC. Diaison, the new lawful owner of the certificate of purchase. Redemption rights expire on a specified date after service and publication completed.
Notice to John A Chaneying that on the 1st day of December 1903 in Kossuth County Iowa the west 82 feet of block 2 Buell’s 2nd addition to Bart Iowa was sold to W C Dawson. Redemtion period expires unless redemption is made within days from service. Dated Sept 5. 1903 by Danbun.
The notice states that certain land in Kassuth County Iowa near the northeast corner of section 25 township five range west of the 5th principal meridian was sold by the county treasurer to a purchaser who holds the certificate of purchase. The right of redemption expires unless payment is made within a specified period after service of the notice dated August 6.
In Kossuth County Iowa district court a petition seeks quiet title and declaration of sole owner in fee simple for the Southwest Quarter of Section 13 Township 99 Range 27 West of the 5th P.M. against the unknown wife of Charles West and all unknown heirs and claimants. The plaintiff asserts open adverse possession by A A Saxton and predecessors back to 1873, with related tax deeds and a circuit court quieting title decree, and seeks to establish title free of defendants claims. The notice directs publication in The Algona Advance weekly for six consecutive weeks.
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