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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1915
Page
12
A man tells a shopgirl he is marrying and wants a cake. She explains wedding cakes align with the groom’s calling, listing journalist, musician, athlete, loafing friend, and more. He replies he is a pianist, and she quips he’ll want a pound cake.
Improved ovens collected by products saving the U S cake industry sixteen million seventy thousand dollars last year that would have been wasted by old methods of manufacture.
A discussion argues for a four year governor’s term with no second consecutive term, claiming it would sharpen focus on public duties and reduce campaign distractions. The speaker critiques constitutional reorganization aiming to place all departments under the governor and warns of graft in session costs.
A Canadian government agent promotes Western Canada as a land of vast natural resources and affordable farming. It urges farmers burdened by high land prices to consider settling for free soil, investing in stock and implements, and seeking independence, education, and prosperity through prairie opportunities. Debt and Canada Will Not Stand Hitched.
Bertha Mann drew a crowd at a New York playhouse when she performed in The Worth of a Man. Budding writers urged her to read their works, and one persistent man claimed originality of both character and play, prompting Miss Mann to remark the character did not look two thousand years old.
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a 10 cent solution to headaches, biliousness, indigestion, and foul gases. It claims the product cleanses the stomach, removes sour food, reduces bile, and eliminates constipated waste while you sleep, with a morning result and no griping.
Fragmentary OCR reads about a man with a strong face and a question about his occupation. Steve suggests he is a prize fighter. Context mentions Bowars of the may and ailing beats as pages blur.
In a largely peaceful caucus, Big Bill Atkinson of Clarksville was unanimously nominated as speaker by Republicans. The informal ballot produced 33 votes, the majority, as Elwood of Elma was chosen speaker pro tem and W Ramsay of Belmond won chief clerk. Brady motioned formalizing the informal ballot amid applause.
The Page County board of supervisors seeks a special legislative act to legalize bond proceedings after auditor Clifford Duke refused to sign the 59 000 bonds drawn up. Eastern financiers had shown interest in taking over the issue, but Duke cited irregularities. W F Stipe visited Des Moines to consult Attorney General Cosnon on whether to pursue the act.
The state va Ernest Weidner faces murder charges in the Cyprian Martell case near Harper's Ferry. The jury includes John Beeda Jr, Julius Bakke, Ed Busness, William Ewing, John B. Ghelf, George Leet, Andrew Leppert, Thomas Mullen, George McShane, Jacob Swenson, F A Seikemeier, and Gus Wild.
The Southwestern Iowa Debating League will stage a series of debates among top state schools including Winterset, Indiana, Lamont, Bedford, Stuart and Lenox. The year’s core issue asks if immigration should be further restricted by a literary test.
The Franklin County Recorder, among the three oldest newspapers in the region, marks its fiftieth year, celebrating five decades of local journalism in Iowa Falls and Franklin County.
In Waterloo, efforts to organize resistance to a liquor petition begin amid uncertain circulation and local opposition. Reported activity centers on landowners and business figures mobilizing a response to the saloon proposal as residents consider next steps.
An old advertisement touts Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a home solution to darken gray hair naturally and evenly. It claims dandruff relief and reduced hair loss, urging readers to buy for 50 cents at drug stores and apply with a sponge or brush to a strand at a time.
Women in Bombay cotton mills earn about ninety dollars yearly. Sixty new trades, once mainly German, are now taught to English women. Mrs Chauncey Depew funds a hospital in France. Miss Elizabeth Kille becomes chief clerk to Kansas secretary of state. New York hosts a woman insurance broker with clients in Turkey and Australia. Woman police officers grow familiar in many U S cities.
An advertising notice promotes Cuticura soaps and ointment for cleansing and healing skin, claiming aroma and emollient properties prevent irritation and disfigurement. It offers free samples by mail with a Book Address postcard to Cuticura Dept XY, Boston, and notes sale everywhere.
A Philadelphia salesman has built a novel automobile body that unfolds into an extensive display of samples with shelves and pigeonholes. If it tips, the mechanism would present an extraordinary display of goods.
A fragment from a public dialogue references advertising craft as “the old school.” The remark prompts irony about evolving standards, with a nod to a judge and a contested term suggesting a mishearing or editorial error in the transcription.
Mrs Lounge Nelson appeared as counsel for her husband George Nelson in a raid on a dice game led to six arrests. Nelson and five others were fined a dollar each plus costs, while Mrs Nelson declared her husband a steady, non gambling man. The judge told her she had won her case and handed over a $1.10 fee seized from the raid as payment.
A terse reflection notes that relying on hope yields little for those who fill themselves with it. The line hints at the futility of hopeful consolation for self-destructive behavior, implying a harsher path is needed beyond optimism.
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