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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1907
Page
3
A preacher from the Highway and Byway ministry delivers a sermon on the rejection of King Saul citing scripture from 1 Samuel 1b. The message emphasizes divine preference for obedience over status and warns against pride in leadership.
A sermon warns against altering divine commands to fit personal desires, citing Saul’s failure to utterly destroy the Amalekites. It contrasts Saul’s self serving justification with Peter’s warning against walking by the flesh, urging repentance and confession to receive forgiveness and cleansing.
The king of Israel arrives home in a somber mood after the Amalekite campaign. While the people hail victories and Agag is said to have been taken, Samuel’s rebuke over sparing Agag and the plunder provokes quiet discussions about Saul’s fate and divine favor. The mood contrasts praise with doubt as Saul isolates himself from friends.
The scene recalls a heated quarrel about the capture of Agag and the Amalakites, with Samuel’s rebuke and Saul’s anger. Samuel mourns, Saul laments the prophet’s distance, and a deputation seeks to steady the king. Jonathan pleads for repentance as Saul vows he did nothing wrong.
Priam confers with an adjuster as Cassandra visits to deliver a grim assessment. The burnt-out monarch laments a near total loss while Cassandra hints at perfection of timing. The exchange illustrates the power of a well timed word in crisis.
President Kingsley of New York Life Insurance stresses that life insurance is a public duty and trustees must serve policyholders with integrity and performance. He notes his twenty years with the company and urges standards of efficiency faith and responsibility in guiding the firm. His words, he says, must be read from the record kept day by day.
A professional entertainer recalls practicing tears in a car and a passerby offering help. He reflects on life as a soap bubble, noting its brief beauty and sudden vanishing, likening it to the rise and fall of a butterfly, a nation, or a star, with a contemplative voice attributed to Henry Frederic Miles.
A reader extols Grape-Nuts for being ready to serve without preparation. The advertorial tribute claims the product is pre digested, easily assimilated, and suitable for weak stomachs, noting its factory cooking and grape sugar content.
A stock salt box with a hinged front offers dry storage and self service for animals. Set it on the ground so it stays dry and allows animals to push in the door, which then swings shut under its own weight.
A Wisconsin farm survey notes brick silos as durable and efficient for silage. Brick double walls with a cement inner lining and steel reinforcement every two feet provide strength. Silo height up to 360 feet is discussed, with ground depth four to six feet and diameter guidance around 16 feet, while contrasting with old tub silos and concrete walls prone to air spaces and mold.
A prominent Elgin Illinois dairyman, once buying top cows, milking then selling them to butchers, now raises calves from his best cows. He argues the old method depleted quality and that sustainable herd improvement comes from breeding from the best cows.
A concise saying compares a cow to a machine that turns feed into milk and butter for the dairy man to consume. It warns against feeding tainted or musty feed, which would yield poor results and impure output from this food-producing animal.
A garbled excerpt discusses dairy cow feeding, noting a large portion of the cow’s intake is needed for health. It mentions a dairyman and a belief about how much a cow can eat and what remains for the handler, though the passage is uncertain and fragmented.
A Kiowa subscriber asks if boiled millet seed is good for cows in milk and for young calves fed with separated milk, and if it suits hogs. Prof Shaw says boiled seed is costly. best as meal with bran, or ground with alfalfa. Ground millet with oats aids digestion, and ground millet feeds horses well, preferably with oats. Do not feed whole rolled millet to sheep or fowl. seeds are small and hard and may not digest. Millet can be a fattening feed for pigs and is similar in value to barley when ground and fed with skim milk or pasture.
A Kansas Farmer correspondent explains a calf feeding device used by a neighbor. The design uses a 24 inch neck cradle and a cradle board with slots for gallon crocks held by strap iron bits. An end view shows the device in place and notes holes for crock placement.
Advice for dairy operations stresses separating fresh cream, scalding all utensils, and keeping cream cold. It urges cows fresh in September and October to fetch higher butter fat prices, notes nature’s law that like yields like, and warns against mixing warm and cold cream. Prompts patrons to improve dairy practice for yearly profits.
A dairyman notes that a good cow yields butter at about seven cents per pound. All price above that is profit, covering milking care and churn effort.
The text describes a simple device to ring a bull, using a trocar and cannula. Push the metrument through, remove the trocar and insert the ring end in the hollow cannula. The ring then passes through easily. The instrument costs about 70 cents.
In Old Camden lore a knight tricks Norwich shoemaker John Drakes by ordering a gown of the knight’s cloth. The tailor makes both garments alike, causing Drakes to swear off “gentlemen's fashion.” The tale recalls Henry VII’s era and a dispute over style and pride.
The Medical Times for April challenges patent medicines arguing annual U S outlay near 62 million dollars, enough to fund 2 000 per physician across 115 000 doctors. It contrasts this with doctor fees and per capita home medicine costs, urging shift from sentiment to common sense.
A young newlywed man, eager for home grown vegetables, fails to grow a single crop while neighbors’ plots flourish. He blames seed quality after investing effort and money, revealing the comic frustration of amateur gardening and a pun on selling seed at high prices.
A brief sketch questions a struggling author about success and career shifts. It references poems, a popular novel, and a play, then notes an author’s pivot to selling clams. The piece closes with a remark on the word Kangaroo meaning I don’t understand in Australian Aboriginal speech.
A Westminster dean refused to admit a memorial tablet dedicated to Herbert Spencer into the abbey, on the grounds he was not orthodox in his Christian belief.
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