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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1910
Page
8
A late dining patron at a restaurant draws a sharp retort from a tiny-server who quips back about baked potatoes. A separate note recalls Mark Twain’s Christmas jab on Jeruson Ferguson and a feature on Brazilian Amazon rubber wealth potentials and Para cotton prospects.
The minutes list numerous payments and services including livery, labor, engineering work, material purchases, and court costs. Names such as J. H. Curtis H. Christensen A. Lilly J. Stephenson A. J. Kennedy Roy Davis and others appear with assorted expenditures. Ayes Hall Pearson Heise Newel Cullen. Nays none. Board adjourned. Auditor A L Anderson. Amounts shown total substantial disbursements for road and drainage projects with several estimates and notices recorded.
Lamphere’s confession, claimed by Rev Schell, details how Mrs. Gunness lured victims to her Laporte farm death trap. He describes chloroforming victims and using an ax to sever heads, aiding in disposal of three men including Helgelein and possibly Budsberg and Lien, with cash gained from the killings.
Four men rescued after the Coos Bay bar collision of the steamer Czarina. Capt Dugan and Harold Millis among those likely lost, with Captain Dugan and five others initially believed aboard the foremast when the forward mast broke away. Kentzell, the first assistant engineer, survived after being found unconscious. Robinson, the second assistant, washed ashore and later reported the mast sequence and survivors.
First annual convention of the National Gasoline Gas association opens at the Iowa hotel in Des Moines. Mayor Mathis welcomes attendees and officers are elected in the afternoon. Banquet and lecture by Prof. S. R. Macy follow. Tomorrow features papers, trolley ride and theater party.
A collage of antique ad like lines and anecdotes touching on Klondike gold schemes, Catarrh cures, eye salves, denture care, and family quips. It mentions Klondike Incubator Co Des Moines Iowa offering a poultry catalogue, Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo, and Pettit's Eye Salve from Buffalo. Also includes moral snippets and old product slogans amid domestic vignettes.
In Los Angeles France’s Paulhan flew on a light frame over 5000 feet, raising the world altitude record before a 40000 strong crowd. Separate briefs report Earl D Wilson’s partial recovery from neck injury at Annapolis and a racist remark by Booker T. Washington at an Atlanta YMCA event. A Boston Y M C A building fire on Hack Bay Street caused about 200000 dollars in damage.
The Ross postoffice, four miles north of Audubon, was robbed of about $100 in stamps and $100 in cash. Postmaster Hey Tab Quimby has no clue to the culprit.
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