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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
1
Miro run Shot Twenty Miles will be fired from a gun of American craftsmanship, aiming to set a distance record. The piece touts Tostetter's Stomach Bitters for fifty years as a cure for constipation indigestion and biliousness, while commenting on the broadness and shallowness of some minds.
The Bosphorus Railway company plans a new bridge linking European and Asiatic railways within a year. Massive granite pillars will support steel cables, with artillery accommodation and ornate decorations. Estimated cost around £3,000,000.
Report says Senator Proctor of Vermont, negotiating for himself and marble interests, seeks to buy Carrara quarries in Italy. If successful, Vermont quarry owners could gain control of much of the world’s finest marble output, potentially affecting congressional influence and maintenance of special favoritism.
Report notes Miss Kit-Sen of Shanghai as China’s first girl to ride a bicycle, with few others adopting the sport amid traditional prejudices. It observes widespread local riding in treaty ports and China’s growing interest in biking despite social constraints. General Wood cuts formal ties with Havana Bar Association after its board elects five deposed judges. The association had previously maintained semi official relations and counts 800 members with 65 present at the election.
The New York Evening Post notes elm dried gulf prawns favored by gourmets. Chinese merchants say Gulf sailors introduced drying methods from south China decades ago, establishing settlements near Mobile Pensacola and Tampa. Dried prawns shrink to wood like hardness, preserving months in warm climates and years in cold, then ship nationwide, replacing old imports from China and Japan.
A January bride and her bridesmaids will wear simple pale gowns. Bridesmaids in white chiffon with pink rose accents and pale blue ribbons. The bride’s going away dress features white cloth with gold-edged Medallion trimming and a light blue cravate. A beige traveling coat with pastel-blue velvet yoke completes the look.
Henry Norman writes in Scribner's on his tour of Irkutsk Prison. He notes vast aging wooden buildings enclosed by a twenty foot palisade. He observed hospital workshops laundry kitchens and many cells while criticizing prisoner crowding and long pretrial detentions due to scarce magistrates and slow evidence gathering across Siberia.
Nevada shows population loss over the decade, while Nebraska and Kansas near stagnation. Kansas added 431,000 people between 1880 and 1890, but only 42,400 in the last ten years, a sub 3 percent gain. Nebraska’s previous decade gain was 805,508 at 184 percent, yet the past decade added just 9,891, under 1 percent. After census adjustments, growth in Kansas and Nebraska appears even slower than Vermont.
A collection of overheard quips and anecdotes spans Sir Henry Howarth mispronunciations about Mongol history and dogs, Alexandre Dumas’s parentage, parson Helton’s Tennessee preaching, and a Civil War-era preacher with eighteen sons split loyalties. the pieces reveal sharp humor and dated attitudes.
Mrs P A Passmore of Flushing Mich suffered kidney and bladder troubles for three years. After four physicians failed, she tried Dodd's Kidney Pills and improved to a well woman. She endorses the remedy, priced 60c a box, with the note that several cough syrups and Morley's Honey are also marketed. The piece also mentions England's postal profits and a Stanton County Nebraskafarm survey with crop and livestock figures.
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