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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
5
John Goeders announces the Christmas season store service with better facilities and stock to ease shopping. Includes a great remnant clearance of Colored Dress Goods and a wholesale priced large line of Black Dress Goods. Also holiday laces embroidered linens doilies towels and table linens.
Classified listings include rent of an improved farm in Grant township with five-room house and good well, offered by F. Norton, Algona, Ia, via A.D. Clarke & Co., plus loan terms at 5 percent with annual payments. Also S. Thompson advertises Duroc Jersey hogs at reasonable prices, J. J. Fitzpatrick offers four horses for cash or bankable notes, including brood mares and young colts. A half section near Crookston, Minn. is for sale or trade for Kossuth land. OSTEOPATH J. G. Bertrand offers treatment, office hours and free consultation. Holiday excursion rates announced by Iowa Central for late December and early January travel.
Geo Williams' famous bird dog dies after swallowing an ox hoof. Bohannon opens a top line billiard hall at 3 pm with $5,000 fixtures, no alcohol, no gambling. Capital Park football left Algona with stolen items recovered by Marshal Switzer after a $10 draft payment. Injuries to J. R. Stewart after a fall in West Cresco. W H Hodges tours southern mills facing labor issues. Singer agent Hopkins ill with pneumonia. Fenton fire thwarted by bucket brigade. Various local trades, deaths, and moves span Algona and surrounding towns.
A Whittemore Whittemore champion family Thanksgiving gathering marks the 42nd wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Roupe with their children and relatives visiting from Everett and other nearby towns. Also noted is a dislocated shoulder from a buggy accident near Corwith and various local notices about sales, piano trades, paint prices, and available barrels and shoes in Algona and nearby communities.
A fragmented timetable lists CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN trains with north bound No 9 Town and Minnesota Special 1400 m No 14 St Paul Passenger 2:00 pm No 50 Way Freight 2200 am and south bound No 10 Town and Minnesota Special 140 m No 1 Des Moines Passenger 2:00 pm No 4 Accommodation Topm No 50 Way Freight and CHICAGO MILWAUKEE & ST PAUL No der Ri2la m No 8 6:08 pm Freight trains east carrying passengers. West bound No 1 5:00 am No 8 8:50 pm No 7 at? 40 p.m. Nog at 10:55 am Freights No 71 at
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