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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1917
Page
3
Long article discusses the Pork Bill and a proposed $45,000 Algona post office site. It argues against overspending, notes Algona’s growth, and defends the need for a federal post office. Also includes satirical remarks about two Yankees and a French mule noise cure.
The twelve farm loan banks will operate in Omaha Berkeley Spokane Springfield Baltimore Columbus Washington New Orleans St Louis Houston and St Paul. Reports say 50000 farmers have already applied for loans and the system is described as a boon to agriculture in Iowa and other states.
The article notes the United States buying the Danish island of St Thomas for 25 million dollars as a strategic defense move while potential European trouble looms. It also reports Ackley Iowa editors George Altans acquiring and consolidating the town papers into the World Journal, promising improved service and business returns.
Tess Vontreas of Manson denounces a proposed 37th Iowa General Assembly raise for the 59 district judges from 250 to 5000 dollars annually. He portrays judges as overpaid, argues such a lift hurts the needy, and urges the public to resist. Also notes living standards for judges and a job market jockeying for vacancies, then ends with a drugstore ad and a Ward’s Wagon sales notice seeking a salesman in Kossuth County.
A frank sociological drama based on Illinois vice commission reports portrays how several young women fall into vice and bondage. The production shows encounters in a city, elopement, and a white slave scenario, aiming to reveal dangers facing girls seeking adventure and low wages.
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