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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1905
Page
3
A Cleveland Leader quip wonders why Mrs. Chadwick failed, noting her trouble stemmed from not incorporating under New Jersey law. The conversation riffs on courtship, superstition, and the idea of marrying well as a social measure.
A North Bend Nebraska letter extols Western Canada as a land of excellent crops and opportunity. It cites Mr Auten’s Edmonton district yields, notes potatoes and vegetables thrive, and predicts a continental railway bringing growth within five years. It urges Americans to seek low rail rates with Canadian government agents.
Somerville Journal notes a pretty girl admired by young men. despite a dull school reputation and limited speech, she captivates with charm and a spellbinding presence. Her lack of eloquence is overlooked as suitors fall under her influence.
In Port ham, Captain Stover's rough charm wins over Mr Adolphus Walker, the town’s aloof aristocrat. A printed invitation sparks drama as Walker, teased by social rivals, becomes a guest at Eliza Jane Stover’s wedding before drinking a celebratory punch and revealing a longing for happier days.
Maxwell, New York public schools superintendent, advocates free meat for undernourished children so they can learn. He recalls Paris’s free meals and a Sunday school tale where pupils recited verses about love. A red haired boy misquotes Song of Solomon verse in class.
The Clyde Times notes willow culture flourishes in Lyons and Clyde with about 300 acres devoted to basket willows. Yields average six tons per acre at roughly $17 per ton, Syracuse serving as the main market. Barked and prepared willows fetch about $125 per ton, with roots traced to John A. Blackburn planting first willows in 1862 after moving from Maryland.
In a Lawyers' Club moment, a budding pundit grilled Ambassador Choate about a luncheon. Choate quipped that the pun exposes the critic's ignorance as the luncheon may be in Choate but his right to address him is M ho ate, drawing laughter and a grin at the fumbled word.
An excerpt from Alonzo Rice in Lee's Magazine presents a fragmentary lyric in which the speaker laments a love now dead. The text references censure, separation, and faded summer imagery as the moon and mist frame a somber mood.
Belmont is a Sportsman. August Belmont, an enthusiast of many sports, owns a stable of racehorses a kennel of dogs keeps hunters and a season yacht. He rode to hunt club meetings with Mr Blemton's name often listed as the rider of the winner, and he patronizes numerous sports making it hard to pick a favorite.
The execution of two leaders slows the Tsai Yuan movement in Henan a new Chinese sect aiming to destroy railways and foreigners on a day yet to be announced. It proclaims the present ruler is not the true emperor and vows to reveal the Mountain of Nine Dragons where he will appear.
Veteran speculator James R. Keene comments on recent performances by Thomas W. Lawson of Boston. Keene dismisses Lawson’s chances, saying it does not pay to hunt game in Wall Street and that a man who brags on the fence only betrays himself.
A Chicago News fragment recalls a man who smiles through a sad heart after a bite of cherry pie, his ecstatic relief fading to distress as astonishment and reflection mingle in a brief urban moment.
A Queensbury resident uses a coffin as household furniture and displays a stave from a local churchyard gravestone bearing his name with the line Not dead, but waiting. In Tong near Bradford a man kept Sunday clothes in a coffin. another kept a coffin as a meal bin. A Keighley man stored butterfly specimens in his coin.
A monolith 80 feet high six feet square at base and weighing about 100 tons is the largest stone ever taken from an American quarry. Floated by barge to Troy New York it was moved by rollers two miles to Oakwood Cemetery to stand as a monument to Gen Wool. It will be a landmark along the Hudson when set.
The article notes rivets crucial in modern steel steamers. In the ocean liner Caronia, the largest built in Great Britain, 1,800,000 rivets were used, weighing about 600 tons. Hydraulic power did most of the riveting work.
The Melbourne Women's hospital found a local undertaker ring bought up nearly all vacant cemetery plots. They sold corner plots at high profits to divert trade to their own ground. A minister and doctor rode with them and had the undertaker removed to avoid gossip. Deafness Cured by a Blow reports William Gowler regaining hearing after a boxing blow.
A Plainfield New Jersey woman left her dachshund with friends in Glens Falls New Jersey three years ago. The dog later returned to Plainfield, then tracked the mistress to her Kentucky home Freak of Nature in the bluegrass. Wells and springs in Kentucky have suddenly revived after weeks of drought, a curious natural anomaly reported by Gray son Bugle-Herala.
In Vienna a sixteen foot paper boat was crafted from back issues of a leading daily. Hull spars and sails are formed from pulped copies by the journal’s literary staff. The paper yacht is said to be made from the paper’s hundred thousand copies.
About one hundred thousand sheep will be prepared for market this winter at beet-sugar factories near Eston Greeley Windsor Longmont Fort Collins and Loveland Colorado. Beet pulp serves as lamb feed.
A collection of brief quotes and quips from various papers and jokes. Highlights include Defiance starch claims, an auto mobile speed ambition, a poker exchange about being even, a Maine Sunday school pun, a nurse’s joke about prayers, and a lawyer and sick man exchange about wills and property. The items reflect lighthearted anecdotes and wit from early 20th century papers.
A physician placed an eight year old on Grape-Nuts after an appendicitis operation due to weak digestion. Two months later the father reported the child grew strong, muscular, slept soundly, weighing 62 pounds, with improved health. The ad claims undigested foods cause appendicitis and promotes Grape-Nuts as easily digestible starches from wheat and barley.
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