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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1914
Page
3
Local notice lists subscription options with prepaid yearly and semi annual terms, plus advertising rates. Postal handling indicates Algona Iowa second class matter.
The Des Moines meeting of Progressive Party leaders outlined a full state and county slate, seeking a northern Iowa bull moose capital in Algona. The platform calls for presidential preference primary, public interest governance, regulation of industrial combos, reform of courts, child labor abolition, woman suffrage, rural credits, hunter license revenues for game stock, permanent highways, and expansion of progressive clubs.
Mr H A Bates urges Kossuth county youths to pursue prizes in grain and vegetable raising, citing Agnes Fridell’s tomato project that earned a net $92.88 on 439 square yards. The piece argues effort and ambition trump idle living, urging 1914 contests and noting the dangers of traveling quacks in medical advertising.
R H Barton sold the tiled farm to Wm Hof for 140 per acre and bought the old Barton homestead for 150 per acre. Maple Grove Stock Farm remains owned by Barton and is rented to J W Robinson this year. Ray plans to return to the farm next year, hoping to resume success there after leaving town.
Local report says tiler George Smith died beside a ditch near the Hefty farm after leaving camp with two companions who later returned to town. Coroner rules death from alcohol effects. two men jailed then released as investigations continue. Also notes a January sale at Mrs Jas Taylor offering women and children’s hose at ten cents.
December city bills paid list is followed by multiple sale notices. Bred Poland China sows offered by Geo C Hanna Lone Rock Iowa. Claver and timothy hay for sale delivered by phone 58. Chas M Cox advertises Studebaker with Wilson Motor Co as seller.
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