Wesley Co operative Creamery adopts cream only intake plan
At a stockholders meeting Wesley Co operative Creamery Ee decided to take in only cream after this week. Four routes will start next Monday with 60 patrons initially under the new plan. Cream collected every other day, haulage paid 1 cent per pound butter fat. Old milk routes cease to pay and the firm expects better payments and profits in a few months.
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Mason City
Wesley Creamery
Chris Bagh
New York Extra
Court petitions in Kossuth County show Garner lead
The record lists 2327 signers for Garner in Kossuth County and 1920 in Britt, totaling Garner with a majority of 407 supporters. The figures summarize a local petition drive indicating Garner’s lead over Britt.
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Kossuth County
Garner
Britt
Hunt's Big Ditcher Ready by April In Bancroft Register
The Bancroft Register reports Alva Hunts new ditcher near completion and slated to begin work by mid April as frost clears. The massive 26 by 16 foot machine weighs 54 tons and will cut a furrow 4 ft 2 in deep and 8 ft 2 in wide at the top, moving about a yard of dirt per rod. It requires 4 caps baling and 16 teams to pull and aims to open on the Dolan farm west of town with over 15 miles of orders in hand and contracts for county drains to keep it busy for years. The project cost rivals of 4500 dollars for similar machines, with 8800 for wire cables indicating the scale of investment. Alva Hunts experience guides preparations as the Stingon shop finishes the machine amid local interest and inquiries.
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Bancroft Register
Alva Hunt
Dolan
Hunt
Red River
Alva
Anderson
Satchett
Birds and kinfolkin a West Virginia minister family
A humorous family lineage spans generations with bird puns. The Methodist minister's wife has married three times Part ridge maiden, Robin, Sparrow, and current Quayle husbands. The household includes two Robins, one Sparrow, three Quayles, and relatives Swan Jay and a dead Jay now a bird of Paradise. They reside on Hawk Avenue in Ravelville Canary Island, with the article credited to a Lyre bird as a family insider.
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West Virginia
Partridge
Robin
Quayle
Quayles
Hawk Avenue
Ravelville
Canary Island
Boyle at Whittemore Praised Yet Faulted for Legislature Choice
In a recent column Geo Boyle of Whittemore urged several men as suitable Kossuth county legislators. The Fenton Reporter argues none named would fit, and instead props Mayor Boyle of Whittemore as the capable choice for the coming legislature.
Col D A Hag gard candidate for representative
Col D A Haggard announces to the Algona Advance his candidacy for representative from the district. Admirers in the Titonka area will welcome the news.
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Titonka
D. Ay Haggard
Algona Advance
Money to loan at five per cent
Money to loan at 5 percent from D Cranks & Co and A D Clarke & Co with optional payment terms. Interest payable annually. Also ads for glasses at Bowyers and coffee at Durdall lunch counter. Includes for sale notices and banking info from The County Savings Bank stating safe, conservative general banking and savings business and money to loan on approved security.
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D. Cranks & Co
A. D. Clarke & Co
Bowyer’s
Durdall
the County Savings Bank
Algona State Banke
Savings Bank Savings
V-Pres
F. H. Vesper
Gushiar
For Sale Cheap Seed and Nursery Stock Offered
For sale cheap the best quantities of clover timothy blue grass rape millet and cane seed and northern grown seeds in bulk. Also nursery stock grown at Hampton and other Northern Iowa. Nurseries fresh and true to name. Residence 5 blocks due west of Iowa Central depot. F M Wurratan.
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Jeal
F.O. Wilson
Hampton
Iowa
Iowa Central Depot
F.M. Wurratan
Nantucket Bucket and Nan The Burden of Theft
A ragged verse saga traces a man’s pursuit of Nan and a bucket of cash across multiple towns. Names and places shift with comic mischief as the bucket eludes pursuit, ending with the thief’s retreat and family protests. Also brief notes on dogs, loans, and farm mortgage ads appear in the page fragment.
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Nantucket
Nan
Princeton Tiger
Livery Barn and Feed Sheds Adjoining Gardield Property
Lam offers good livery and feed services on the former Lacy property in Gardield Iowa. He stocks hay oats corn and ground feed at low prices and requests public patronage. Non trespass notice forbids hunting after March 1 1903 on land in Kossuth County Section 9 16 17. Lupwia IL Wa Lupwia.
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W. H. Hopers
Gardeld
Kossuth County
Lupwia
Notice to Farmers on Stallion Placement
The imported Belgian stallion Joan Brin A Or owned by Irvington Horse Co will stand at Irvington every day except Wednesday when he will be at A Butterfelds on the old O Rourke farm for breeding and service to horses in the area
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Joan Brin
Irvington Horse Co
Irvington
A. Butterfeld
O'Rourke
Cheap Round Trip Rates to Los Angeles 1903 Presbyterian Sale
The Town Central Tt offers round trip tickets from Algona to Los Angeles or San Francisco at 49.30 dollars. Valid May 3 and 12 to 18 with final return by July 16. Passengers may use various routes with stopovers both ways. For details contact local agents or A. L. Outts, GP J A Minneapolis.
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Los Angeles
Presbyterian Assembly
Town Central
Colonist Excursions to the West Offer Low Rates
The Iowa Control Railway sells special one way Colonist Excursion tickets at extremely low rates and will run daily through June 16, 1003. California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Arizona are among the included points. See local agents or contact A. By Currs, GP. & TA., Minneapolis for details on rates and through tourist cars.
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Iowa Control Railway
California
Washington
Oregon
Montana
Idaho
Arizona
Minneapolis
Minn
Homeseekers Excursions by Iowa Central Railway
The Iowa Central Railway reestablishes its Homeseekers Rates to Minnesota North Dakota Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon plus eastern and southern points. Rates are one fare plus $2.00 round trip, valid 21 days from sale date, on select April May and June 1905 dates. Inquiries to town central ticket agent or A G P DY A Minneapolis Minn.
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Iowa Central Railway
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Buoy Town Central
Minneapolis, Minn
Minnesota and St Paul Rail Schedules Fragments
A fragment from a rail timetable shows freight and passenger train numbers and times for destinations including Minneapolis, Des Moines, and routes between Iowa and Minnesota. Details are partial and mixed with garbled OCR, listing departures and arrivals such as No. 50 Mall and No. 62 Way Freight with Sunday exceptions and south and northgoing designations.
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Town and Minnesota
Des Moines
Yottonan, Minwatcre & ST. Paul
Odea
Eluilt Trang Cust
Paesenger Thains Wes
Passen
Ora
Agabas
Large
Iowa Central
Arreve
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Algona, In
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Kossuth County State Bank
Algona, Iowa
Capital
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J.B. Jones
J. Chrischilies
J. W. Wadsworth
Burnet Devine
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Oalt
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Sollutta
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Cashion
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Martin Rahn
Joseph Rah
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