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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1913
Page
11
A solemn man seeks work at a business house and uses a speaking tube to reach Mr Mills on the second floor. Paddy O Flynn barks his request from the street, demanding a chance to speak to the boss and secure employment in a brisk, comical exchange.
In a history class a student insists the declaration of independence was signed in only four, prompting a tense moment. The towheaded Swede boy, new to the country, maintains his earnest claim while the teacher and class react to the misstatement.
In a humorous exchange a speaker pits audience wit against a stalled watch and a distraught mother quips she has not left the yard in a week. The speaker insists profits go to the retailer while lamenting personal earnings. The banter captures lighthearted rural community humor.
A farmer questions purchasing a gold brick during a spring visit. The dialogue notes summer boarders were disappointed for lacking one and the farmer vows not to repeat the mistake next year.
The quote questions why ancient gladiators would be praised as good fighters if they drank heavily. The reply denies they were drinking men and asks if they always faced Roman punches. The exchange reads as a playful debate on old warrior temperance.
A quoted exchange questions doctors' ethics about money from patients. Police inquiry looms, with the suggestion that doctors profit from ill-gotten gains implied by the dialogue. The note frames suspicion rather than presenting concrete facts.
A speaker in a public setting faces questions about electoral payments. The crowd’s response was mixed with a few cheers but most lost interest as the claim was disputed.
A fragment shows a tailor musing on a "crimson heart" batch of bills and a plan to pasting a heart symbol, hinting at a clever ruse. The dialogue suggests a misdirection or deception tied to money, with the phrase "7 guase that batch" indicating confusion.
A young American journalist newly hired at a major London paper boasted of a scoop about a quarrel between the king and the prime minister. The editor pressed for confirmation and the man revealed the phrase heard outside Buckingham Palace, “King's Cross,” implying anger.
A playful exchange shows Harry requesting a marriage proposal as a last favor to Helen before they part, prompting her to respond with a vow or consideration.
A Newark lawyer visiting Atlantic City rang for a bellboy to take a telegram. After four rings the boy appeared and explained that it was their dinner hour. The lawyer quipped about bellboys being called buttons for always being off, smiling grimly at the stall.
In a tender moment a woman cradles a dog in her arms and speaks softly asking the pet to speak. The dog replies with affectionate barks and leaps from her lap to chase a stray cat.
A humorous exchange shows Mrs. Bacon asking if her husband is a firefighter. Mrs. Egbert confirms, adding they both fight a hard battle each morning to get up and begin the fire.
In the Castle of Simonette two miles from Milan a remarkable echo repeats sixty times. Mrs Yeast remarks on the appeal of the echo while Mr Yeast jokes that any woman who loves to hear herself talk would enjoy the trip.
A playful exchange between a wife and husband about pinching pennies and forming a money trust. The wife asks if such a thing exists and suggests John join it, delivering a light domestic quip on thrift.
A witty dialogue contrasts eating with appetite, as one says the more a man eats the more appetite he is paid to have. The exchange analyzes satisfaction and reward in a playful, philosophical tone.
A fragmentary line shows a character asking for support for a girl and another replies in a terse, blushing tone. The scene includes a parent figure and a speaker smoothing his trousers. The text is from California and has a dated, informal voice.
A terse exchange notes a man quitting smoking to please his wife but continuing to smoke, then giving up forty dollars for a new gown. The fragment hints at domestic tension and financial sacrifice within a husband wife dynamic.
A rousing homage to labor and industry portrays money as a force that reshapes nature and society. The address extols labor’s triumphs over obstacles, turning mountains to fields and seas to fertile shores, elevating arts and civilization through industrial power and prosperity.
The article notes that seed sponges are cut and attached to cement blocks then lowered to the ocean floor for a year or two before harvest and reattachment. It also describes stringing sponges on a horizonatal wire with stakes, addressing issues of loosening and corrosion by switching to a lead wire with a copper core, as reported by St. Nicholas.
Dahlias have become a gardening centerpiece with fierce competition for beauty and increasing varieties each season. Field-grown roots should be planted in late April, require staking, and last till fall, ideal for picking. Gladiolus bulbs store in cellars like dahlias, multiplying quickly as colors enchant gardeners at Harpers Bazaar.
Mrs E H Harriman announces a yearly medal for the railroad achieving the best accident prevention record at a New York dinner. She responds to a newspaper sneer about a woman’s interference in railroading with a fable about a club table and a wife who “tried her hardest.”
Jerome 8. McWade discusses Friedmann consumption serum amid a one million dollar banker offer for its inventor if cured. Dr Squills boasts of fame from a fictional serum, predicting coverage in magazines and newspapers and a price surge of one thousand percent.
Uncle Jud, a wary rail passenger, finally rides the Flyer to visit his son. A switch opens and the P D Q derails, but the steel cars absorb the crash. Jud survives with shattered eye glasses and a groan about his spectacles in this Harper's Weekly humorous vignette.
A New York Eve ning Post writer recalls New York as Miller saw it and how New Yorkers first met him. The piece notes Twain with olives, Bryant in a cloak, Whitman beside a Broadway omnibus, and Miller’s early east tour as a performative poet. He arrived in velveteen coat and scarlet necktie, his tawny hair like a sunburst, and staged dramatic readings for fashionable hosts.
John Atkinson, a life sentence inmate and trusted prisoner at Columbus Ohio's penitentiary, raises canaries in the death chamber where more than eighty condemned men were executed. He trains the birds to fly between the electric chair and the gallows in the room, as described by Popular Mechanics Magazine.
A quoted exchange warns that a girl who smiles too much risks insincerity and damages charm. Smiles should reflect genuine emotion, not a habit or social cue, for a plain face can be transformed but only when smiles arise from real feeling rather than practiced ease.
J. E. B. Taylor of Washington heads the navy finger print bureau, cataloging identification cards for every man enlisted since 1907. The archive holds over 180,000 cards, safeguarding national service records against fraud and desertion.
A note alleges that the so called King Alfred of Arable, reigning since 1878, is actually Alfred German de Brevel, a Frenchman born gloomie and roaming, who settled in Arabia. A 1978 meeting saw a sheikha invite him to accept the royal crown due to internal indecision among local rulers.
Mrs Benjamin Guinness at a New York dinner party quipped about old maids and bachelor girls saying an unmarried young woman turns twenty five and begins calling herself a bachelor girl.
Edward Lloyd of New York and Robert Lester of Kansas City were thrown into frigid water when an ice yacht sank through an air hole on the Shrewsbury River near Red Bank New Jersey. Det detective Elwood Minagh and William Conover rescued them with a life buoy and rope, stripping off coats and gloves to endure the cold. They were pulled to shore and returned to Princeton with new clothing and a remarkable tale.
Shamokin Pennsylvania man Fred Sanders, 43, suffered a head blow when a bat slipped during a 25 year old Central Pennsylvania league championship game between Ashland and Shamokin. He is treated in Medico-Chirurgical Hospital Philadelphia for convulsive vocal cord injuries and has agreeing to be filmed to aid doctors in treating his condition.
William Robinson of North Anson reports his dog Duke repeatedly begged a corn ear from his barn and carried away "as many ears as he could." The dog returned each time, while a curious flock of hens pecked at the corn and watched the scene with evident satisfaction.
Randolph J. Nathan, a salesman, went to jail rather than pay 75 dollars in alimony. He predicted a lively time when he would be released on April 22.
Governor Colquitt learned the cork leg of Gen. Santa Anna is among war relics in Memorial hall at Illinois state capitol. A Texan prompted inquiry about removing it to Texas, but Illinois law bars removal once housed there. The relic was captured by three Fourth Illinois volunteers at Cerro Gordo on April 18, 1847.
Milton Gerhard faced a stubborn old-fashioned bedstead that would not fit through doors or windows. He climbed to the roof, ripped shingles, cut rafters, hoisted the bed into the attic, and created openings in the floor and ceiling to finally position the bed in the desired spot.
The seven members from one town with sixty children at the federation of parents leagues voted for taxing bachelors as a measure endorsed by the national parents organization.
A Northampton window displays a sign for Meg Seur’s habiliments promising fashionably fabricated metamorphosed and depurated garments. The wording imitates ornate 18th century style, highlighting tailoring outputs and a playful garb description.
In a curious case from Budapest a spinster who served at a rabbinical household for 84 years was fired. The drama centers on her marriage to the rabbi's 40 year old grandson, surprising locals and raising questions about tradition.
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