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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
2
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The text shows a debate over movement and policy, rejecting actions that abandon core principles. It argues against yielding to reactionary ideas or bowing to politicians who have discredited the Republican party, signaling a stance of principled resistance.
The Songs Society founded by Mrs August Belmont seeks to curb hollow Christmas giving driven by class pressure and social conformity. With ten cent dues and 200 members led by Theodore Roosevelt, it targets shop girl burdens and gift culture while praising loving giving and personal needs.
The Chicago Progressive meeting fixates Theodore Roosevelt as the 1916 candidate, offering strong leadership through his personality but inviting criticism for breaking the two term tradition and suggesting potential party disunity with Republicans. Roosevelt urges Taft Republicans to join the Progressive platform before any reconciliation.
The Courier opposed a county insane asylum, urged investigation of the proposal, and cited claimed cost savings at Cherokee. It challenged the Advance to prove cheaper care at Cherokee has better outcomes, noting Cerro Gordo's hospital system as a possible model.
The piece notes Miss Elsie Scheel, a Cornell special student in Agriculture, as a physically and mentally near perfect woman. It details her measurements, hobbies, and preferences, praising her athletic strength, daily eating pattern, and suffrage support, while inviting comparison with Iowa coeds.
The piece notes winter as a time for planning big summer projects like railroad building. It mentions Near Jetts Station Kentucky as another town on the path to progress. It also highlights J A Kearns a blacksmith wagon maker who invented a fishing rod with a combined reel sinker splitter fastener hook releaser corkscrew and beer opener likely to please anglers.
Whittemore Champion editor accuses the Courier of opposing an old reform effort while recounting eight years ago when J B Cullen and Geo Boyle stood for supervisor. The Courier claims it gave loyal support to Cullen without waging war on Boyle, defying further challenge from Mr White or any other.
Algona residents read of Rev. Holmes weighing a Cedar Falls offer after ten years of service and strong local ties. Also reported are an expert county audit to Jan 1 1911, a missing five dollar bill recovered by chance, visiting sons Carl and Dana Dodge from Reno, the death of Mrs. F M McPherson of Wesley, and marriages and social pairs forming the local love league.
The Courier reports a Christmas Eve liquor incident where a new town businessman turned his family out and paid a five dollar fine plus costs after filing against four local merchants for supplying the liquor. A separate case involves a pregnant encounter labeled seduction. a young man is sought by sheriff with a warrant, and the girl, a longtime Algona employee from the county’s north part, is soon to be a mother.
Supplementing the death notice, Mrs. Sam Broderson was born in Schleswig Holstein on November 6 1851. She married in the old country and had two children there. The family moved to Chicago then after three years settled in this county. Despite ill health she attended church at Lotts Creek the Sunday before death. The funeral drew many friends as 51 teame Dieniog the remains to their resting place. Flowers showed esteem and Rev Fuerstenau spoke in German and English. J Broderson and family thank neighbors for kindness and will remember them with gratitude.
The writing describes an automobile used for windmill operation and power tasks in Corwith Wy Glidden and others discuss windmill power and practical uses of cars for energy generation, reflecting a transitional era view of technology.
A Courier page from December 30 1589 recalls early 17th century notes with nicotine lessons for Dr Sayers, Des Moines winter plans, Algona toboggan progress, Unity church talk, deep cold at 14 to 16 below, a Court House Ifall dance, Christmas visits, Grange officers, and local marriages births and civic chatter across Livermore Burnett Wesley Algona and surrounding towns.
Farmers of Kossuth County urged to exhibit corn or small grain at the State Corn Show in Ames from January 1 to 11, 1918. The premium list offers many prizes from silos to 275 categories, with local cash awards to Kossuth growers like Burt Ne and Algona Savings Bank for top ears.
An Osage River anecdote describes a farmer with a flatboat who ferries produce six miles to market. He plans to float home, aided by the river’s bend and dual riverbanks, with a team moving the boat between landings. Also classified ads offer farm lands and poultry listings in Algona and Reinbeck, Iowa.
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