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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
2
Copea cakes, oat meal cookies and graham cookies, soda crackers and Premium wafers sold in boxes of six to ten. Extra discount on Saturday. Stock limited due to wheat flour shortage. customers urged to come early.
E C Branley Willis W Bradley J W Hinchon R S Esherwood are named editors and publishers in the issue's masthead. The editor and publisher roles appear alongside associate and contributing editors and the business manager, detailing the paper’s leadership lineup.
A city gathering heard a mixed response to a request to sing two stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner. Several hundred listened as a speaker praised America and urged teaching national songs at meetings to ensure everyone knows the words. The note calls for instruction and practice to make citizens a singing army.
J W Hinchon reports on a city hall visit to Spiritualist meetings and a later hall demonstration. He details mediums, seances, and audience readings, noting vagueness, reliance on suggestion, and varied performances. He compares to stage magicians, questions the movement, and recalls encounters with followers and locals.
A roundup of social visits and events in Lat Verne Iowa and surrounding towns includes J E Ross and others from Livermore and Algona stopping by, church activities, a Ladies Aid dinner, a Red Cross benefit, farewell parties for Amspoker family, and a German Lutheran address by Rev Orth on patriotism and Y M C A and Red Cross relief efforts.
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