Winter of 1880 1881 recalled by local editor
GEO, Boyle's column recalls the brutal cold of 1880 1881 as Jack Pinkerton Frank Call and a jury treked from Alona to the state line on December 28. The 40 below wind chill froze nails and teeth as whiskey froze solid. The tale blends frontier humor with prairie hardship and local anecdotes from Algona Whittemore and surrounding towns.
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Jack Pinkerton
Frank Call
Joe Thompson
Wm. Peck
C.C. Chubb
Wm. Ward
D. A. Haggard
Dee
Alona
Northwestern
Col. Smart
Carpenter
Ford
Chubb
Ward
Thompson
Pinkerton
Carpenters
Dr. Spells
Pratts
Pratt
Elmore
Call
Haggard
Pen Yan
Dave
Smart
Antarctic Circle
Whittemore Creamery
Fairville Creamery
Whittemore
Fairville
Thos. McGovern
Sioux City
Plattville
Wis
K. of P. Bansaat
Algona
Palo Alto
Joe DeGraw
Joe
Grand Jury
H. J. Thompson
Chicago
City
Paris
New York
Silas Roupe
Roupes
Grip
Millie
Ortonville
Minn
Osteopath Doctor Bertrand Offers Free Consultation
Dr J G Bertrand osteopath treats acute and chronic diseases with all calls answered. Office in the Heige bh Hour e Ww to.
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J. G. Bertrand
Heige
H. Cretzmeyer
John Galbraith
Rural delivery sparks town rivalry and weddings in St Benedict
The column laments rural mail routes draining local business while noting a town wedding, a blizzard blockade delaying mail, railway plow efforts, and community updates. It reports Ida Aman and Herman Kutschara uniting in marriage, local social events, assesor health, creamery affairs, and various residents’ movements and fortunes.
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Tate
Gabriel
Special Reduced Excursion Rates to the Pacific Coast 1905
Colonist low one way second class raids to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Tacoma Seattle Boise City Spokane Walla Walla Ogden Salt Lake City Butte and other points in Montuna Colorado Utah Nevada and the Pacific Coast via the Chicago Union Pacific North Western Hie March 1st to May 1st inclusive. In Pullman Tourist sleeping cars only 1s for double berth from Chicago through to the Pacific Coast without change of cars. Choice of routes excellent train service Dining cars meals a la carte Settlers one way second class rates to Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota including Black Hills Wyoming Manitoba Western Ontario Saskatchewan and Assiniboia via the Chicago Union Pacific North Western line on Tuesdays March 7 14 21 and 28 and April 4 11 18 and 25 1905. For tickets and full information apply to agents Chicago & North-Western Ry.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
Boise City
Spokane
Walla Walla
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Butte
Montuna
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Union Pacific & North-Western
Hie
Didly
Pullman
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Ncluding
Black Hills
Wyoming
Manitoba
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Assiniboia
Union Pacific & North Western
Chicago & North-Western K'y
Settlers Rates to Minn and Oak by Iowa Central
Iowa Central offers very low rates each Tuesday in March and April for settlers traveling to Minnesota North and South Dakota with through trains daily to St Paul. Direct connections at Union Depot require no car changes. Consult Iowa Central agents before buying tickets or write A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minn.
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Iowa Central
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
St. Paul
Union Depot
Northern Innes
A. B. Cutts
Minneapolis
Minn
Farm for sale or trade in Phelps County Missouri
240 acres with new improvements fully fenced and cross fenced hog tight two miles from the county seat asking 27.50 per acre may consider trades for this farm in Phelps County Missouri new improvements and good fencing specify hog tight and proximity to county seat willing to trade parts of the property or other farm exchanges
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Phelps County
Polk County
Minn
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T.T. Vaughan
Gullivan & McMafon, Attorneys AT Law
Algona, Iowa
V. Swetting
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Ron Bonenck
J. W. Hinonon
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