Good Roads Gospel Visits Bancroft and LuVerne
An independent speaker, an ex-editor from Sac City, toured Algona area towns sharing road making ideas. He cited Mr King of Missouri’s simple drag contrivance and a Sac City plank drag to smooth and harden roads, claiming rainproof results with persistent use. The piece notes local efforts to run a hospital in Webster City and current idle status of the building after fundraising gaps.
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Algona
LuVerne
Bancroft
Good Samaritan
Sac City
King
Missouri
Mr. Ing
Farmers’ Institute
Ward
Mn King
Ulling
Funk
Hamilton County
Methodist Conference
Woodmen and Masons
Webster City
Iowa
We Wish Sh Were in Algona Hospital Debris Mentioned
A fragment describes a vacant hospital building in Web Water City valued at over $25,000 with drawn curtains and no signs of life, highlighting its once fine construction and current quiet state.
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Algona
Manson Democrat
Webwater City
Arson Case Tied to Hotel Blaze and Double Murder
A Glidden arson trial unfolds as Clyde Harvey and his wife face murder charges in the City Hotel fire that killed William and Abner Hobbs. Prosecutors allege over insured furniture and suspicious moves, while a vow to spend life insurance funds echoes through the case. Detectives traced staged accomplices, but the Harveys offer explanations for each circumstance amid pending Supreme Court appeal over juror citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Abner Hobbs
George Hobbs
Ralston
Glidden
Clyde Harvey
Iowa
Supreme Court
Jacob Loch
Harvey
Bayley
Hobbs Brothers
Exter
Harveys
Unclear clutter in house dispute cited with Henry Martin and Harvey case
Fragmentary notes recount a painter Henry Martin varnishing a piano, removal of boxes, carpet changes in a girl's room, and Mrs Harvey's testimony. A separate Manchester dispatch reports over 500 dollars refunded by two county supervisors for livery hires, while a county auditor questioned the practice and the board paused livery claims. The Bancroft Register notes a man named Garnerite dying after whiskey, and local ads promote dressmaking and Galbraith's shoe store selling Oxford styles and ice cream.
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Henry Martin
Manchester
Register and Leader
Board of Supervisors
Seven year farm loans and discount offers headline local ads
A collage of local notices lists seven year farm loans at five percent with annual interest, various retail deals from Dutton & Sorensen and Clarke Co. on food and goods, shoe finds, lumber, paint, and a sale on tomatoes. Also cattle pasture and driving horse wanted, a residence for sale, agents sought for a state map book, a medical service OSTEOPATUS, and clinic hours in Algona.
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the Lea James Patterson
DER
Deere
T. J. Randolph
Cohervants
Sosatos
Galbraith Shoe Store
W. C. Steele
the Clothier
Algona, Iowa
Good Roads Gospel
Bancroft and LuVerne
Vian
Bancroft Register
A. Garnerite
Eagle Grove
Eagle
Missel Clara and
Olga Hawk
Henry Wadsworth
Galbraith
Taylor
Oxfords
Patent
Cult Vici
Galbraith’s
B. F. Cross
Rice
Dutton & Sorensen
A. D. Clarke & Go
Galbraith’s Shoe Store
Norra Iowa Lumber Ci
Rpke
A. D. Clarke & Co
Pemodsen Bros
Wellendorf
Galbraith & Hinchon
Towa
Iowa Publishing. Co
Davenport
DR. I. G. Beltrand
Consultation Trea
Hesse Block
Buurs
IYW
Dingley
Algona State Bank
The
OK Reliable
J. R. Laird
Hardy
Algona Nurseries
City Dray
Eli Larson
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