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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1908
Page
6
A brief preacher column explores a matrimonial misstep as one of Solomon's twelve stories. The piece references Scriptura authority from First Kings and offers commentary on marriage wisdom and moral lessons in a period voice.
A sermonette describes Solomon's alliance with Pharaoh's daughter as the first step toward ruin. It contrasts divine command against expediency, arguing marriage to unbelievers weakens faith, invites disaster, and warns even a king cannot escape consequences. The narrative follows Nathan's warnings, Solomon's diplomacy, and the lure of political gain over obedience.
In a Chicago Record-Herald excerpt, Trashleigh, a prominent book publisher known for glossy New York society titles, is said to have earned around one million dollars in five years and resides in an opulent mansion. Nearby, Horatius Preston, another publisher, lives in a modest home and relies on his daughters teaching to supplement income.
A compact miscellany piece presents voices of applicants and jokey adages. It includes an exchange about dairy business experience, a Santa Claus painting note, a philosopher joke about life schemes and candles, and a farmer’s quip about a boy headed to a circus with a task before departure.
A fragment joke card set shows banter among women about trust and love with a legless railroad injury pun and domestic punchlines. Characters include Vathel, DPollle, Regay, and Mrs. de Close in a Baltimore American style column.
A provocative remark likens frantic financiers to Nero, suggesting similar destructiveness. The quote plays on Roman imagery, hinting that today’s market actors run the show as Rome burns, critiquing reckless speculation and sensationalist finance.
A fox narrator muses on a dog and a bet, claiming a man named Swettgon was tricked out of ten dollars. Weaver and Seaver discuss the riddle of the bet, ending with the judge noting the brainless sucker who bet on a sure loss.
Excerpted chatter contrasts wealth in autos and football with a doctor's persona. A Chicago Daily News exchange hints at vanity and satire on boastful men. A Chicago Record-Lerald vignette pokes fun at travel boasts and a line about never having seen Main Street in Scrubby Grass, Pa.
A fragmented OCR item presents quirky lines about a weary Willie and a question about leaping. Names echo playful wordplay, hinting at a comic or puzzle feature in a springtime page. Readers encounter odd phrases like Walker Long and Tomuse Bos Ege amid garbled text.
Washington reports Uncle Sam uses a mobile sterilizing plant on wheels to purify river and well water for troops. The device, with a boiler pump bone black filters and fourteen spigots, can supply a regiment in minutes while removing bacteria and dangerous pathogens. Sterilization, the official method, reduces illness like typhoid and dysentery, with government data showing sickness dropping from six to five percent even in sanitary conditions.
A pair of duck hawks occupy the Post Office Department tower on Pennsylvania Avenue each winter, using the high refuge to hunt in the Potomac. Ornithologists protest calls to shoot them, noting the birds’ cosmopolitan range and unlikely fate if exterminated. The first assistant postmaster general, ornithologist Frank H Hitchcock, and the Biological Survey show interest in the hawks.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Longworth attended a theater in Washington with Miss Hagner and family. A balcony observer noted Miss Hagner's large pink hat, which suddenly appeared to have a pink rose on top that moved as Mr. Longworth’s bald head shifted, causing amusement among spectators.
A national debate on Washington as a dry city stalls. Speaker Cannon appointed a DC committee with urban members to study reform, but a protracted fight is expected. The panel, 19 members, includes 11 from cities and eight from towns, with three opposed to prohibition. Anti prohibitionists hold 12 votes, making swift action unlikely.
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