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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1914
Page
2
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An Iowa City hospital treatment delayed J W Sullivan's decision on accepting the Democratic nomination for representative. A friend reported broad backing from Republicans, progressives, and Democrats, and Sullivan consented to run, a welcome development for Kossuth County residents.
A reminiscence recalls Bailey of Britt who sat on the girls side in a log schoolhouse in Eastern Wisconsin facing southeast, thus seeing a map upside down. The piece ties his compass confusion to early life and mocks his lifelong political persistence. It notes canal changes around Panama and jokes about misdirection.
A Chicago Record-Herald note questions if Argentine beef imports raise prices for cattle sellers and consumers. The text also critiques medical discovery claims, citing tuberculosis cure hopes credited to Dr Friedman and notes editorial clarity concerns for packers and farmers.
Dr Kelly of Baltimore touts radium cures for cancer while others claim heart stoppage for three minutes enables surgical work on affected parts. Prof Maxwell of UC says pituitary control could grow or shrink humans, producing tall hens from chicks. In Iowa, D M Kejleher seeks Democratic nomination in the Tenth District, and Maine editor Richard Tolenaar marries after advertising for a wife.
The piece notes Admiral Chadwick’s views arguing against race mixing and citing immigration from Cape Verde to New England. It mentions a defeated Iowa bill prohibiting intermarriage, tensions with Mexico after the Veracruz and Tampico incidents, and President Wilson’s naval orders. It also profiles Judge E M Carr of Manchester as a Democratic attorney general candidate, praising his legal career and citizenship.
The article notes the Manchester Democrat is now run by the editor in partnership with a colleague and that the editor has aligned with the paper’s editors as far as his legal business allows. It mentions many newspaper men would welcome him in the attorney general’s chair.
Community notices include a fruit tree spraying and pruning demonstration by R. B. Herrick of Ames at the Charles Nicoulin orchard on the 22nd from 1 30 PM. A patriotic service at the Methodist church Sunday marks Gen Grant’s birth and Civil War battles with sermons on Courage and Character and Backbone or Showing our Colors.
A Courier fragment notes Mike O Ro urke seeking railroads beyond Iowa while W B Quarton and Ed Rist plan a Des Moines trip to hear Booth and Barrett. W W Johnson buys lumber interests in Minneapolis and may move. A daughter is born to Mr and Mrs D Rahm of Prairie. A Livermore paper is established by a man named rkbimer with ties to the area.
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