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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
4
The appeal urges saving wheat and choosing corn to feed Allied forces, arguing Americans can cut a quarter of their intake without hardship. It extols corn as versatile, plentiful, patriotic, and essential to victory, listing varied uses and mentioning Farmers' Bulletin 565 for recipes and guidance.
Riouvero describes an examination of costs and profits in refining sugar, noting a wartime spread between raw and refined sugar costs. After lengthy talks, an agreement set prices and duties, reducing Cuban claims by 15 cents per hundredweight and finalizing a price around $8 per hundred pounds with duty paid.
An awkward, garbled passage discusses refined sugar pricing near seven dollars per hundred weight and consumer steps per pound. It mentions costs around 8 to 9 cents per pound, price comparisons to August levels, and broader calls on distribution, trade conditions, and potential national price standards amid unclear attribution.
A black man and a mulatto woman performed a vaudeville stunt in Whittemore Saturday evening and, in the eyes of most onlookers, were so rotten that they were good. Eggs commanded high prices, while W C Elbert of the west side sold 80 hogs at the local market for over 1400 dollars, averaging 297 pounds each.
Mrs. Whitney aged 89 finished socks and turned them in at the work room. Mrs. Ticon has knit twenty eight pairs and is still at it. Lotts Creek residents knit many socks, praised as perfect workmanship and the town called a beehive of industry. Donations include five dollars from Mrs. Chubb and Mrs. Setchell, six dollars from East Side Sewing Club, and a stranger’s gift. Children ask to make gun wipes from pajama scraps. Refugee garments were shipped Monday to civilians across the water. A large batch of dressings, four boxes of 2 400 dressings each, was dispatched. Cut goods shipped to Fairview and St Benedict, with commendable local effort.
District Court of Roxsuth County April Term 1918 lists Julius King as plaintiff against Jeremiah Bolster Lettie Bolster Nancy Luella Gymstee and others including Sophia Middleton Walter Boardman and Mrs John with their spouses appearing in the case.
Legal notice of a quiet title action filed in Kossuth County Iowa seeking to confirm plaintiff as absolute owner of the NW quarter of the NE quarter of section 27 township 97 north range 27 west and to bar all unknown claimants and other defendants from any right or interest. The defendants are warned to appear by noon on April 1, 1918 at the court house in Algona, or default will be entered.
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