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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1907
Page
9
Promotional copy touts Miller's Antiseptic Toilet Cream as a superior skin preparation that cures quickly without grease or stickiness. It describes a gentle cooling lotion leaving the skin feeling velvet and free from damage.
L A Gronwall enjoyed a Mason City visit while Goeders' big sale closes tomorrow and Dr Sayers joined veterinarians in Des Moines. Families travel south for winter, church events, and a Feb 9 theater show star Miss Merritt in When Knighthood was in Flower. A string of local trades, accidents, births, and civic notes fill the town pages.
A promotional line promising a quarter share or discount on any quantity desired, framed as an offer to purchase with a flexible percentage benefit. The note emphasizes a favorable rate tied to the buyer’s chosen total, suggesting a value proposition rather than a fixed price.
A D Charke & Co advertise money to loan at five percent. Also notes sale items including butter scotch by Taylor's and Duroe Jergey gifts bred to farrow April. Eligible to registry. Frank Reibhoff.
The Whittemore column reports invites to Mandan jackrabbit hunts and notes on a chilly frontier, plus local gossip. It records the January 30 marriage of William Maahs and Anna Meyer, welcomes new livery operators Ed Markle and Frank Farrell, and mentions health, farming, and market day concerns. It also covers forecasts from Emmetsburg and Minot, stock losses in Montana and Alberta, and a one thousand six hundred thousand dollar cattle loss claim by J J Howells.
A local dry goods store warns of looming price increases across cotton textiles. They advertise many items at old prices for two weeks, claim upcoming higher costs from manufacturers, and urge customers to bring eggs or cash. They promote numerous patterns and brands and announce exclusive agency rights and a large spring line.
The report notes cattle crowding along rail tracks in Alberta with dead cattle for miles and poor game conditions in Montana. It cites Mr Howells recalling Havre, where a ranchman offered 10 000 sheep for 90 000 but could not move them and many died. Past shipments from Havre declined sharply this year. A misleading fragment mentions a lost pink bordered shawl and local ads. The passage also lists farm market items and prices including wheat corn oats butter and poultry.
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